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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SwRI]

1 posted on 12/15/2015 1:22:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

In before morons that will go “Looks like a planet” without realizing they’re conferring the same status on nearly a dozen other objects.


3 posted on 12/15/2015 1:25:25 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Is it me, or...


19 posted on 12/15/2015 4:31:45 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ (Obama lied, people died - Holiday Edition)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ceres & Pluto Update - SpacePod 12/11/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAzskjZCYY


21 posted on 12/15/2015 5:16:51 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: SunkenCiv
For those who love esoteric knowledge (like me!)

The al-Idrisi mountains are named for the late Islamic Golden Age geographer, Mohammed Al-Idrisi (1099-1165) who is most famous for the maps he created while a member of the court of the Christian & Norman King Roger II of Sicily. The map/book was a compilation of Islamic mariner and merchant reports, in Latin "Opus Geographicum" and "Tabula Rogeriana".

It detailed accurately the lands and seas from Europe to the East Indies and a Eurasia and N.Africa map was inscribed on a solid silver disc (2 meter diameter) as a presentation for King Roger. While the disc did not survive long, at least 10 copies of the manuscript have.

24 posted on 12/15/2015 5:53:05 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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