Recent observations show that the long-lived storm on Saturn has been joined by a second one. Both look spot-like in small telescopes but in reality are continent-sized convection phenomena.
In other news an Apollo asteroid with a comet-like orbit but no cometary activity has been discovered. • The brightness of Nova Sgr 2008 is already way down again, at 8-9 mag. yesterday. • Details on how NASA s/c image the Earth at night with all its light.
• And in the Apophis affair the author of the article that started it all has told this blog that the student was explicitly happy with its content - thus recent attempts to blame it all on the stupid media don't fly. Meanwhile the science fair organizers refuse to release the student's original paper, citing copyright issues ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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