Typhoon Choi-Wan swinging by Japan on weekend Sep 19, 2009
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JWTC) noted their "environmental analysis indicates Choi-Wan has crested the western edge of the mid-level steering subtropical ridge axis in a corridor of low vertical wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures (well in excess of 28 Celsius or 82 Fahrenheit).". The JWTC said that Choi-Wan may intensify a little over the next day because it's in a favorable environment. (EurekAlert!)
Taking a moment for yourself: How the sandwich generation has to fit in getting fit Sep 17, 2009
So take a moment to see how this resonates with you and search your soul deeply as old issues, wounds and hurts will only be healed by 'knowing thyself" and not by externalising them. Same goes with monetary situations too. www.AstroZone.com.au Virgo: Happy Birthday. Four major planets create a time when your close personal relationships may be surprising, they may seem quite different to you than they normally are and/or you may see them in a different light which makes you want to delve into... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Cleantech: Selfishness Sells Sep 16, 2009
Not exactly high on the cool or superior performance axis, but done right, the idea will excel in the affordable (especially if you factor in the cost of gasoline) and possibly in the convenience categories assuming Agassi gets those electricity stations built. Here are four other areas crying out for cleantech innovation. (BusinessWeek)
Interactive, 360-degree Panoramic View Of Entire Night Sky Sep 16, 2009
The apparent motion of the sky caused by Earth s rotation was corrected for using a small, precise equatorial mount moving in the opposite direction, which made a whole circle in 23 hours 56 minutes around the Earth s axis of rotation. Each photo required a six-minute exposure, for a total exposure time of more than 120 hours. (Science Daily)
Ground broken for Sun Circle; Sept. 22 equinox eyed for completion Sep 13, 2009
The public is invited to gather at the site, individually or in groups, to share in the first sight of the sun on the horizon at 6:31 a.m. Weather permitting, they will be able to observe the sun rising through the pair of stones that demarcate the eastern axis of the Sun Circle. Marblehead astronomy teacher Jim Keating will attend to explain the equinox phenomenon. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
On the Red Carpet at Venice: Hugo Chavez Sep 8, 2009
The movie's screenwriter is Tariq Ali, the British-Pakistani historian who most recently wrote "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope" and it was produced by Fernando Sulichin. Stone also was advised by economist Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. (CBS News)
No data lost from Chandrayaan: NASA Sep 8, 2009
PJ Nayak, credited with building Axis Bank into the third-largest private sector bank in the country, will join the mutual fund arm of Motilal Oswal Financial Services as its non-executive chairman. ET Debates. (India Times)
Shuttle to carry Rensselaer experiment to International Space Station Sep 8, 2009
Images of the experiment, representing contour maps of the liquid film thickness, will be sent to Wayner and Plawsky, who will analyze the images to determine the distribution of liquid along the axis of the heat pipe. They will use these measurements, along with temperature measurements, to calculate the rate of heat transfer and fluid flow throughout the device. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
WWII -- 70 years later Sep 6, 2009
Likewise, it has become fashionable to diminish the British role, given that by 1943 its manpower reserves were exhausted and the bulk of the later fighting against the Axis was conducted by Russian and American troops ... By December 1941, the odds were all in favor of the Axis powers. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Opening up the Hermit Kingdom Sep 5, 2009
It may be hard to believe, but a country that in recent years has American journalists, held the world with missile tests, Secretary of State Hilary Clintons outfits and back in 2002 was a member of the infamous Axis of Evil, is indeed open to foreign visitors and has been since 1987. Since 1993, , a Beijing-based company, has been leading tours into North Korea, bringing an estimated 10,000 travelers including 1,500 Americans to what is regarded as one of the most isolated... (MSNBC -- Travel)
What is an American car? Sep 1, 2009
Publisher wrote on Aug 28, 2009 1:30 PM:" Facts, you are right. Joe, you were able to get a stupid sound bite or quote from a few republican members but you could do that with anyone in DC. The Democratic leadership...including BO are always shooting their mouth off and making a blunder. B. Boxer and Pelosi have called us all unpatriotic for disagreeing with them. Harry Reid is vowing to push the bill through using sheer might of votes regardless of the obvious upheaval around the country... (Cameron Observer, MO)
Neptune twenty years later Aug 28, 2009
Unusually, Neptune s magnetic field is tilted by 47 degrees to the axis of rotation, and is offset from the dead centre of the planet by around 10,000 kilometres. Consequently Voyager 2 approached Neptune through the southern cusp of its magnetic field, which is at a tropical rather than polar latitude; indeed the southern magnetic pole was pointed towards that distant point of light that is the Sun when Voyager 2 arrived. (Astronomy Now Online)
AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 27, 2009 Aug 28, 2009
The layers probably formed as dust, ice, and snow were deposited on the ground during recent ice ages, which occurred during periods when the tilt of Mars's axis of rotation was higher than usual ... To better understand core dynamics, Dickey and de Viron represent the core as a set of 20 coaxial cylinders rotating about Earth's axis. (EurekAlert!)
Were Asteroids Born Big? Aug 27, 2009
Consider of the 373 exoplanets claimed now, 146 have semi-major axis. Violation: lect> Additional Comments. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
> read more Aug 23, 2009
Its sold as a package noteworthy for its completeness, since it includes a tripod, multiple power options, adapters for mounting scopes on both sides of the altitude axis, counterweight, and hard-sided carrying case. SkyandTelescope. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Editorial: Climate change facts being twisted (Aug. 19) Aug 19, 2009
In essence, here s what Clark and his colleagues reported in their most recent study, which was published in the journal Science: Earth s periodic ice ages ultimately were caused by predictable changes in its rotation and axis, which affect the way sunlight hits the planet. The research concluded that the end of the last ice age, about 19,000 years ago, was caused by more solar radiation and not by changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as other scientists had suggested. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
OSU study: Earth’s shifting changes its climate Aug 13, 2009
Peter Clark s latest study concludes that Earth s periodic ice ages were ultimately caused by predictable changes in its rotation and axis, which affect the way sunlight hits the planet. The Oregon State University geoscience professor s research was released Friday, but it s already made the rounds on the Internet, where bloggers and commentators have attacked it, misinterpreted the information and flat-out hijacked the study as proof that global warming is a hoax. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Venus spot continues to puzzle Aug 11, 2009
In the spot's location at a latitude of 50 degrees south, the atmosphere rotates around the planet once every four days a fair lick compared with Venus' somewhat lethargic 243 day long turn about its own axis. Interestingly, the VMC images reveal the white spot in images captured by the spacecraft four days earlier, albeit dimmer, brightening by the 19 July and suggesting that the event causing the confined marking occurred one atmospheric rotation earlier than Melillo and others first noticed... (Astronomy Now Online)
Saturn's rings to disappear Tuesday Aug 11, 2009
Since Saturn's axis is tilted as it orbits the sun, Saturn has seasons, like those of planet Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope took the above sequence of images about a year apart. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise Of Ice Ages? Aug 7, 2009
5 million years they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis ... "We can calculate changes in the Earth's axis and rotation that go back 50 million years," Clark said ... That, in turn, can change the Earth's axis the way it tilts towards the sun about two degrees over long periods of time, which changes the way sunlight strikes the planet. (Science Daily)
Bill Clinton: International Man of History Aug 6, 2009
" The debate now is whether the United States may be losing face in trying to engage with a nation that skeptics believe has proven itself impervious to diplomatic blandishments and incapable of reform. After the 1994 crisis, North Korea signed on to the "Agreed Framework," in which the regime said it would abandon any nuclear bomb ambitions in exchange for billions of dollars in subsidies from foreign government for energy production. But the agreement eventually broke down amid allegations... (CBS News -- Politics)
Iraq Police: 29 Killed by Mosque Bombs Aug 1, 2009
including the Axis powers of World War II and the former Soviet Union. There is an important lesson for us in the British decision, starting in 1945, to liquidate their empire relatively voluntarily, rather than being forced to do so by defeat in war, as were Japan and Germany, or by debilitating colonial conflicts, as were the French and Dutch. (CBS News)
Saturns Day 'Shortened' By Five Minutes Jul 30, 2009
Also, unlike Jupiter, Saturn s magnetic fields are aligned with its rotation axis so that their fluctuations do not give an accurate measure of the rotation of the planet s deep interior. The new approach comes out of work begun over ten years ago by Timothy Dowling of the University of Louisville into measuring the movements of ammonia clouds across Saturn s surface and the work of Professor Peter Read of Oxford University, who has been using data from the NASA Cassini spacecraft s infrared... (Science Daily)
* Futurism without a past Jul 29, 2009
We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses the earth, itself hurled along its orbit. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | July 27 Jul 28, 2009
It was the hundreds of engineers and, yes, even those onetime 00003FC0 evil Axis, German rocket scientists, now rehabilitated as NASA employees who made this all possible. As we loaded up well after 1 a.m. for our drive home, I lay in the back window of our 1963 Chevy Impala SS and watched as the moon followed us home. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Fear Factor: How Herd Mentality Drives Us Jul 27, 2009
"The Clinton years would have been a GREAT time to start developing some alternative energy sources. But instead, people drove Hummers and monster SUV''s, because oil was cheap and the supply would NEVER END.Opportunity lost... by frogprophet October 19, 2008 9:49 PM EDT This is the mentality the Republican party prefers the American public to be in.9/11, Iraq holds weapons of mass destruction, axis powers of evil, your either with or against us, Threat level Orange, terrorist sneaking through... (CBS News)
The Outer Solar System Jul 25, 2009
Uranus' rotation is very odd and its axis is almost perpendicular to the ecliptic plane. It's hard to say which is its north pole. (Suite101.com)
Asia watches long solar eclipse Jul 22, 2009
Solar scientist Lucie Green, from University College London, was aboard an American cruise ship heading for the point near the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, where the axis of the Moon's shadow passed closest to Earth. "The [Sun's] corona has a temperature of 2 million degrees but we don't know why it is so hot," she said. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Asia Will Witness 21st Century's Longest Eclipse Jul 21, 2009
Solar scientist Lucie Green is aboard an American cruise ship heading for that point near the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, where the axis of the moon's shadow will pass closest to earth. Passengers paid $2,599 to $3,643 for the cruise run by Mayhugh Travel Inc., a California company that specializes in astronomy vacations, according to the company's Web site. (KIRO TV, WA)
Celestron Computerized Telescope Jul 16, 2009
UPDATED DAILY Thursday, July 16, 2009. Daily 2009 Great Male Survey Days Hours Min Sec Latest in Entertainment Promos. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Mapping a Star's Spots by Exoplanet Transits Jul 14, 2009
The horizontal axis is maked with decimals of a day from the time of mid-transit (0. 01 day is 14. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Free Market CIA-AFRICOM Warning to US Government Jul 8, 2009
The Self-Created Black Man called Mawu-Lisa or Dada Segbo-Lisa, Ataa-Naa Nyomoo, Tweduapon Kwame-Asase Yaa by Ewes, Gas and Asantes respectively made the self-propelled Solar System with a fixed Sun of diameter 853,000 miles; and planets revolving around it, while the earth, one of the planets 93,000,000 miles from the Sun is rotating on its own axis and leaning 231/3 degrees revolving at the speed of 1,037 miles per hour; it is the universal evidence of the power of The Black Man, the Ancient... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Central Asia Jul 5, 2009
BOOK REVIEW Axis of Convenience by Bobo Lo China and Russia's strategic partnership is at its apex, but they are unlikely to forge a new anti-Western axis any time soon, as historical distrust and their divergent relationships with the United States and Europe are a constant limiter. Geopolitical games for control of Central Asia and the energy trade also loom as areas of conflict, argues the author of this concise analysis. (Asia Times Online)
New Details About History Of Water On Mars Jul 3, 2009
Unlike Earth, Mars has an unstable spin axis, which currently is tilted at about 25 degrees from vertical. Perhaps five millions years ago, he said, it was tilted much more, which would have exposed the north pole to larger amounts of sunlight creating warmer, wetter conditions during summer. (Science Daily)
Radio-quiet Gamma-ray Pulsars Discovered Jul 3, 2009
A pulsar emits narrow beams of radio waves from the magnetic poles of the neutron star, and the beams sweep around like a lighthouse beacon because the magnetic poles are not aligned with the star's spin axis. If the radio beam misses the Earth, the pulsar cannot be detected by radio telescopes. (Science Daily)
Car Bomb Kills 33 in Iraq as US Pulls Back Jul 1, 2009
THE PILE OF EXCREMENT LEFT FOR THE AXIS OF EVIL TYPES. THE USA IS THE WORLD GREATEST VIOLATOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (CBS News -- Evening News)
A little hint at life in the other Georgia Jun 30, 2009
AM VET: To the likes of POGO, we are the Axis of Evil Just sayin. booger. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Green-Industrial Complex Jun 30, 2009
This new axis discourages healthy debate (accusing those who question it of being climate-change deniers ); thwarts individual initiative (treating saving the planet as something that can only be done by central bankrollers); and helps to keep the Third World in poverty (encouraging it to remain carbon-lite in order to offset the carbon heaviness of the West). It s time to toss an intellectual hand grenade into this network. (The American Conservative)
Oregon woman who fed bears ousted from house Jun 26, 2009
democratforever wrote on Jun 25, 2009 7:46 PM:" Hey El Gabilon. Truer words were never spoken. I don't think it's even gonna take us 500 years to destroy the human race. But unless we do something so devastating that we knock the planet off it's axis, the earth will survive, and thrive long after the human race is history. We are only the temporary leaders of this planet, just like the dinosaurs were. The dinosaurs had no choice, but we will destroy ourselves with our ignorance and stupid... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Is Obama Too Perfect? Jun 26, 2009
Its obvious to all whether anyone wants to acknowledge it or not but the world in the last 90 days has gone off its axis. Obama was looking for reason and the world is not about reason and now he's in over his head. (CBS News)
Brad and Ange 'run back to their exes' Jun 23, 2009
This would be a very good day to make a positive change to the axis between home and work especially if one or the other takes up too much of your time; strive for balance. Handle any trust issues very carefully in the work place. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
World's First Controllable Molecular Nano-Gear Jun 22, 2009
The scientists at IMRE solved this scientific conundrum by proving that the rotation of the molecule-gear could be well-controlled by manipulating the electrical connection between the molecule and the tip of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope while it was pinned on an atom axis ... Step-by-step rotation of a molecule-gear mounted on an atomic-scale axis. (Science Daily)
Scientific reasons for Earths seasons Jun 20, 2009
We now know that Earth orbits the sun elliptically and, at the same time, spins on an axis that is tilted relative to its plane of orbit. This means that different hemispheres are exposed to different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Exploding Stars: Is Earth at Risk? Jun 19, 2009
Ten times more powerful than typical supernovae, hypernovae are the source for long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs), which are high-energy beams emitted along the dying star's axis. A GRB could travel 6,500 light-years and still inflict terrific damage on Earth, Thomas says. (Fox News)
Weird Brown-Dwarf Weather Jun 19, 2009
The simplest explanation seems to be that the brown dwarf is spinning on its axis with a 2. 4 hour period, while comparatively lighter and darker patches in the brown dwarfs atmosphere are moving and/or changing shape on longer time scales, much like clouds in Earths atmosphere do. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
What is the 'Greenest' computer out there? Jun 16, 2009
Other than this, application the computers congenital in enviromental controlls will aswell help, i.e. putting to sleep, or axis off if not using, ambience the LCD affectation to about-face off afterwards a beneath aeon of time, acceptance the HDD to go to beddy-bye if not getting used. Re: What is the 'Greenest' computer out there. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Group: Climate Change Kills 300,000 A Year May 30, 2009
Who keeps our planet spinning on its axis and revolving around the sun so precisely that we can predict sunrise and sunset and if we were any closer to the sun we would burn up (literally) or any further away we would freeze. Who keeps the seasons coming. (CBS News)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene May 24, 2009
The grants will help designer Heather Basarab experiment with performer-manipulated lighting for a new work by David Dorfman to be performed by Oakland's Axis Dance Company this fall. Elaine Buckholtz will collaborate with ODC/Dance Artistic Director Brenda Way on a world premiere to be danced at the newly rebuilt ODC Theater in the Mission District next summer. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Magnets in ant antennae work as internal GPS May 21, 2009
Prior studies found these ants tend to always migrate at an orientation of 13 degrees relative to Earth's geomagnetic north-south axis, and that the ant's strongest magnetic signal comes from its antennae. High-powered microscopes and chemical analysis revealed the presence of the dirt-acquired magnetic particles in the antennae, intriguingly next to a body part called the Johnston's organ that may also be part of the ant's GPS.. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Kim Jong-il shifts to plan B May 21, 2009
The Clinton administration did not want to fulfill the US's obligations under nuclear agreements and procrastinated for years, secretly betting on the collapse of the DPRK. The Bush administration was more overtly antagonistic, branding the DPRK as part of the "axis of evil", singling out it as a prime target for a nuclear pre-emptive strike, and moving to discard the nuclear agreement. The US has not adopted a "live and let live" policy towards the DPRK, and it has refused to take any specific... (Asia Times Online)
NRL part of multi-national team that launches Herschel Space Observatory May 15, 2009
Herschel will be in orbit around a point along the Sun-Earth axis, one million miles more distant from the Sun than the Earth. Because an object orbiting L2 always maintains the same approximate relative orientation with respect to the Sun and Earth, thermal shielding is simpler. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Low-angle Collision With Earth: The Elliptical Impact Crater Matt Wilson, Northern Territory, Australia May 9, 2009
3 kilometers, with its long axis trending northeast-southwest. The exposed crater floor shows a preferred stacking of thrust sheets within the central uplift, indicating a material transport top-to-southwest. (Science Daily)
• COLUMN: Giant spots dim the light of this fast-spinning star May 7, 2009
The sun's magnetic field, although vastly larger than Earth's, is only a little stronger, because the sun only rotates on its axis about once per month. Faster rotating stars can have considerably stronger magnetic fields. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Scientists Discover 'Dancing' Algae May 1, 2009
Each of the surface cells has two hair-like appendages known as flagella, whose beating propels the colony through the fluid and simultaneously makes them spin about an axis. The researchers found that colonies swimming near a surface can form two types of "bound states"; the "waltz", in which the two colonies orbit around each other like a planet circling the sun, and the "minuet", in which the colonies oscillate back and forth as if held by an elastic band between them. (Science Daily)
Fomalhaut's Disk and Fomalhaut's Spin Apr 28, 2009
Now a group of European astronomers has used cutting-edge long-baseline interferometry, combined with spectroscopy, to determine the rotation axis of the 1st-magnitude star Fomalhaut ... This allowed the group to determine the star's axis of rotation quite accurately. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Cut emissions to save Arctic Apr 16, 2009
Even as the Axis Bank board finalises the banks new chief executive, its largest shareholder, the Special Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India, is identifying the next non-executive chairman. ET Debates. (India Times)
Science views: Energy and our traditional calendar Apr 13, 2009
Earth s total energy has provided its speed in orbit around the sun and a rate of rotation about its own axis ... One complete revolution of the Earth s axis plus some regression to account for Earth s orbital movement gives us our mean solar day, 24 hours long. That is the mean elapsed time between high noon on one day to high noon on the following day. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Can life thrive around a red dwarf star? Apr 10, 2009
The fact that potentially habitable planets around a red dwarf are tidally locked implies they are rotating slowly around their axis. By the same physics that applies to stars, slow rotation will mean a weak magnetic field that could shut down completely. (MSNBC -- Technology)
New 'Dracula Fish' Has Fake Fangs Apr 10, 2009
Their lower jaws can open to a wide degree and form an angle of 45-60 degrees with the main body axis. D. dracula also stands out because of its "eternally young" physical development. (Fox News)
North Korea's rocket: Making a splash Apr 9, 2009
They are probably right in guessing that Mr Obama s instincts for inclusion and dialogue will mean a form of engagement that is more akin to George Bush s Korean policy in his second term than the confrontational approach of his first, during which North Korea became a charter member of the axis of evil. For a start, Mr Obama s special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, is a proponent of engagement over confrontation as the means to draw the country out of its shell. (The Economist)
Planet Neptune Apr 9, 2009
Neptune rotates on its axis very quickly, taking only about 16 hours to make one spin. Because the planet spins so quickly there is a bulge at its equator. (Suite101.com)
Saturn's Moon Titan May Have Subsurface Ocean Of Hydrocarbons Apr 7, 2009
The longest axis is oriented so that it points toward Saturn, a result of tidal forces from the planet. The shortest axis runs through the poles ... And the other axis, oriented in the direction in which Titan orbits Saturn, is intermediate in length. (Science Daily)
Star Defense Preview Apr 6, 2009
All of the conventions are still very much in place -- enemies with different weaknesses, upgradable towers -- but the simple act of stretching the strategy onto that third axis (and then pulling at around a sphere. or cube) could send Star Defense into a higher orbit. (IGN Wireless Games)
Desperately seeking Mercury Apr 4, 2009
Interestingly, the time it takes Mercury to rotate once on its axis is 59 days, so that all parts of its surface experiences periods of intense heat and extreme cold. Although its mean distance from the sun is only 36 million miles, Mercury experiences by far the greatest range of temperatures: nearly 900-degrees F (482-degrees C) on its day side; -300-degrees F (-184-degrees C) on its night side. (MSNBC -- Technology)
> read more Apr 3, 2009
In essence, 100HA is a global star party that will sweep around the world as Earth spins on its axis and turns day into night. Amateur astronomers will be setting up telescopes in a wide variety of venues to show the public the splendors of the universe, including Saturn, the Moon, galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
