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Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Road Trip To California
My friend Mildred is moving back to California and for some time has ask me to ride with her when she moves.......you only live once so i said yes...
We left Marion SC around 930 am Friday August 20 2011................
On day one we drove into the night and after a Small power struggle, and GPS units fighting for the right to guide our way......we had a small mishap at I20 and Birmingham Ga.......we course corrected and drove just short of Memphis Tn, "18miles" and just under 800 miles total for the day, we finaly find a motel that is not booked full, Turns out Mississippi State was first day of schooling it, and all the Mommies and Daddies are in town to see Jr. and Sis off for freshman year at University, we were going to grab I40 and truck across to LA then San Fran.....
We sleep at the crap motel
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.........Then the next morning Saturday at last minute we decide to go to St Louis
to visit Mildred's Brother, who she has not seen in many many years.We pass thru Arkanas and discover Fried Corn On The Cob
they have a lovely home.
....look at map below but we only drove 280 miles, and it was 257 miles out of the way......and NOW WE seem forced to take I80 all the way to San Fran, but then i Miss L.A. and one of the reasons was to go to L.A. so i can visit Terry and Randall....Perplexed
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We left Marion SC around 930 am Friday August 20 2011................
On day one we drove into the night and after a Small power struggle, and GPS units fighting for the right to guide our way......we had a small mishap at I20 and Birmingham Ga.......we course corrected and drove just short of Memphis Tn, "18miles" and just under 800 miles total for the day, we finaly find a motel that is not booked full, Turns out Mississippi State was first day of schooling it, and all the Mommies and Daddies are in town to see Jr. and Sis off for freshman year at University, we were going to grab I40 and truck across to LA then San Fran.....
We sleep at the crap motel
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they have a lovely home.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave
With all the huzz a buzz over this newly discovered Comet Elenin, or C/2010 x1 as it is known on star charts, here are some things i found, now unless "they" have told Ian Musgrave he can go to the underground bunkers, i guess he has no reason to lie.......................
"But it’s bigger than Jupiter! No, that’s the coma , the thin haze of gas and dust that surrounds the comet nucleus. The nucleus of C/2010 X1 Elenin is roughly 3-4 Km in diameter and Elenin has a coma around 50,000 km wide at the time of writing (which is a third of the diameter of Jupiter). The average density of the coma is about the same as the density of the atmosphere on the Moon. A coma is a feature of all comets that approach the Sun closely, for example comet 81P Wild (nucleus 4 Km diameter) had a coma of 50,000 Km and 103P Hartley had a coma of 150,000 Km. The Great Comet of 1811 had a nucleus of around 30km in diameter and had a coma nearly as big as the Sun. Comet Halley is 6×15 km and had a coma 100,000 km wide when it last approached Earth. We survived them all (and 103P Hartley came nearly twice as close as Elenin will), and we will survive Elenin without incident." from http://www.universetoday.com/87619/worried-about-comet-elenin-faqs-from-ian-musgrave/
Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave
http://www.sky-map.org/
http://www.stellarium.org/
http://www.google.com/sky/
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http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-of-stellarium-01061.html
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"But it’s bigger than Jupiter! No, that’s the coma , the thin haze of gas and dust that surrounds the comet nucleus. The nucleus of C/2010 X1 Elenin is roughly 3-4 Km in diameter and Elenin has a coma around 50,000 km wide at the time of writing (which is a third of the diameter of Jupiter). The average density of the coma is about the same as the density of the atmosphere on the Moon. A coma is a feature of all comets that approach the Sun closely, for example comet 81P Wild (nucleus 4 Km diameter) had a coma of 50,000 Km and 103P Hartley had a coma of 150,000 Km. The Great Comet of 1811 had a nucleus of around 30km in diameter and had a coma nearly as big as the Sun. Comet Halley is 6×15 km and had a coma 100,000 km wide when it last approached Earth. We survived them all (and 103P Hartley came nearly twice as close as Elenin will), and we will survive Elenin without incident." from http://www.universetoday.com/87619/worried-about-comet-elenin-faqs-from-ian-musgrave/
Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave
Free software to draw sky charts
http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php
http://www.sky-map.org/
http://www.stellarium.org/
http://www.google.com/sky/
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http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-of-stellarium-01061.html
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