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Name that telescope and win a prize
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| Sept. 3, 2001
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Posted on 09/06/2001 9:54:36 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: cracker
That's why they should turn over older spacecraft operations to a university, that can use cheap student labor and get funding through either private or public sources. the science would have to stand up to peer review though.
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posted on
09/06/2001 12:30:42 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: Physicist
Space Infrared Telescope Facility, or SIRTF.
Spife T (pr; spiffy t) For that Spify Thermal Finder of a scope they are sending up there, somewhere.
To: cracker
But the failure to build in the long-term funding means that expensive projects that are still producing good data (like a few of the recent planetary probes) get shut down to save a few million dollars. Which planetary probes would those be?
To: Dust in the Wind
The MMPS, Marilyn Monroe Planetary Scope. Now there was a heavenly body.
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posted on
09/06/2001 12:41:59 PM PDT
by
Movemout
To: Physicist
lowbridgescope /vanity
To: Physicist
ENVIRO
Emerging Nebulae Voyeuristic Infra-Red Observatory
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posted on
09/06/2001 12:46:56 PM PDT
by
OWK
To: OWK, Physicist, Moonman62
Why not make the creationists all crazy and call it the "Darwin"?
To: PatrickHenry
Click on the link and make your case to NASA. It will make them even more crazy if you win the prize for it.
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:00:09 PM PDT
by
Physicist
(sterner@sterner.hep.upenn.edu)
To: PatrickHenry
Why not make the creationists all crazy and call it the "Darwin"?That would be okay, if they expect the scope to see things that are not really there, and constantly require modification to keep it running. "Inward" is appropriate.
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:09:40 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: Physicist
Since Voyager is taken, how about:
Voyeur
?
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Physicist
Shapley Sounds good to me. I suppose you have to be dead to qualify.
(Penzias and Wilson will get their due someday.)
To: Physicist
Any other good names out there? Submit them and let us all know! Can't disagree with your Shapley nomination, but if it is rejected for some reason, I would tender the name of Clyde W. Tombaugh for consideration.
Since this facility is designed ultimately to increase our chances of detecting Extra-Solar System planetary bodies, Tombaugh's nomination makes some sense, as he discovered Pluto, the last major planet of our solar system to be found.
To: Physicist
Shouldn't something called the Shapley look more like this:
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Since it's looking around a huge universe for Shapley things, especially those that are expanding, how about "Googol Eyes" or the "Googolscope"?
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:21:19 PM PDT
by
Anthem
To: Moonman62
Which planetary probes would those be? I can think of one Earth orbiter that had to take a dive because of funding...The Compton GRO had a couple of good instruments on board that were still good, but it burned up in the atmosphere due to lack of funding to keep it up there. BATSE was integral to the Gamma Ray Burst sub field at the time, too. It was the only all sky burst detector in existence at the time, and was instrumental in detecting some of the first optical counterparts to Gamma Ray Bursts.
I think only now there is a replacement, 2 years after it burned up. HETE-II has an all sky detection system as well.
Gamma Ray Astronomy, where one photon really is worth few thousand dollars.
To: ThinkPlease
How about Hoyle? And who will be the first card playing astronomer to refute some data by saying "not according to Hoyle"?
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:29:42 PM PDT
by
Anthem
To: ThinkPlease
I can think of one Earth orbiter that had to take a dive because of funding...The Compton GRO had a couple of good instruments on board that were still good, but it burned up in the atmosphere due to lack of funding to keep it up there. That was a disgrace, but I heard that we deorbited it as an example to encourage the Russians to deorbit Mir.
To: VadeRetro
(Penzias and Wilson will get their due someday.) Perhaps with the Next Generation Telescope. In related news, MAP should start sending back data on the CMB in a few weeks.
To: general_re
"Seriously, though, how about "Kepler"?" You refer perhaps, to Johannes Koeppler? Excellent suggestion. A brilliant mathematician.
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posted on
09/06/2001 3:04:56 PM PDT
by
Brad
To: Physicist
BEORS = Big Eye On Red Sky , pronounced 'bears' as in Ursa Major and minor
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posted on
09/06/2001 8:22:13 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
To: Physicist
Planet Ho!
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posted on
09/06/2001 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
aruanan
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