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#155811 - 14th May 2007 10:39pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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MattLFC
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Heres an interesting gif of two seperate photographs taken seconds apart merged together in a gif - notice how the flag doesnt move yet it appears to be blowing:
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#155909 - 16th May 2007 8:39pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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MattLFC
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We never landed on the moon. Ye only have to watch the banned video that was made by Fox called "Did We Land On The Moon" to be re-assured that we didnt do it.
I used to had it on Divx about 2 or 3 years ago but can't seem to find it now.
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#155913 - 16th May 2007 9:03pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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MattLFC
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I found the documentary on YouTube so ive started a new thread here to keep this thread on topic.
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#156223 - 22nd May 2007 8:05pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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BMW Joe
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The eighth planet from the Sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky.
Neptune was discovered in 1846. Seventeen days later, its largest moon, Triton, was also discovered.
Nearly 4.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 years, and therefore it has not quite made a full circle around the Sun since it was discovered. It is invisible to the naked eye because of its extreme distance from Earth.
Interestingly, due to Pluto's unusual elliptical orbit, Neptune is actually the farthest planet from the Sun for a 20-year period out of every 248 Earth years.
The Great Dark Spot is believed to be a storm similar to, but only half the size of, Jupiter's Great Red Spot. While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been raging for at least 400 years, subsequent observations of Neptune's Great Dark Spot in 1994 by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that this storm has since disappeared.
Neptune's clouds are driven by winds of 1,200 mph, the fastest winds of any planet in the Solar System.
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#156488 - 25th May 2007 7:54pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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MattLFC
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Ye want to know what time and space looks like:
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#156540 - 26th May 2007 4:14pm
Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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MattLFC
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The messy looking object stuck to the space shuttle is the Mir Space Station. Now back to earth, albeit somewhere in the south pacific. Long live the USSR!
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