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RE: Science Porn
February 17, 2018 at 1:54 pm
The very outermost 'flock' of Jupiter's satellites are likely not ever to have been close to Jupiter itself. The 'outies' are just barely held in orbit by distant Jupiter and likely drift off from time to time (due to influence from Saturn etc.) and others might 'drift' in and replace them.
Jupiter has quite a retinue of L4 and L5 Trojans and I'm thinking there's been some overlap amongst the outies and the Trojans. A given object in any of the 3 categories could not make a close approach to Jupiter itself without being 'expelled' from those 3 categories.
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RE: Science Porn
March 14, 2018 at 1:58 pm
Looks like MU69 is getting a nomenclature upgrade; it's being referred to as Ultimate Thule now. A billion miles outbound from Pluto, it will be the most distant and primitive object ever explored.
Flyby still on track for New Horizons 1/1/19.
BTW, despite great cameras, MU69 is still invisible to New Horizons. The flyby is being planned and organized so far with images from the Hubble Space Telescope. They expect the new Horizons cameras to start registering MU69 around this September.
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RE: Science Porn
April 19, 2018 at 8:13 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Science Porn
May 17, 2018 at 8:48 pm
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