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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is! |
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!"
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is. |
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!"
Even with a low powered "cheapy" telescope you should be able to se e the Red Spot, and if you can find Saturn, the rings  |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is."
Didn't work out so well for the dinosaurs though. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is."
Gawd bless ya Jupiter! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is.
Didn't work out so well for the dinosaurs though."
There was a lot more comets hurtling around the solar system then. Ole Joop couldn't get them all.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
Even with a low powered "cheapy" telescope you should be able to se e the Red Spot, and if you can find Saturn, the rings "
I thought the Red Spot had disappeared? It is a storm 3 times the size of the Earth that had been raging for 300 years but recent images had shown it to have died out. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is.
Didn't work out so well for the dinosaurs though.
There was a lot more comets hurtling around the solar system then. Ole Joop couldn't get them all. "
Well again, good job for us. I don't fancy being a snack for spinosaurus. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you have a smartphone you can download an app whereby you hold your phone up to the night sky and it will tell you what the stars/planets in the sky are.
Google do one for Android unimaginatively called The Night Sky, and iPhone users have can download a version of it for Apple phones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see 
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!"
Tonight is your lucky night!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night! "
Now why does that remind me of an advert |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!"
Yep, its always cloudy in York when the meteors are around or the northern lights are showing. I usually have luck with lunar eclipses though. |
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"Amazing to think that it's the biggest planet in our solar system and its surface area is 122 times larger than that of earth. Shows just how far away that baby really is!
It's also the reason our little ball is still here. Jupiter is our cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking up all the rogue comets and asteroids that would otherwise have an unhindered path to the inner planets in our solar system. It also keeps the asteroid belt where it is.
Didn't work out so well for the dinosaurs though.
There was a lot more comets hurtling around the solar system then. Ole Joop couldn't get them all.
Well again, good job for us. I don't fancy being a snack for spinosaurus. "
Would the Fab equivalent of the KT impact be the KY impact ? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert "
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?" |
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?" "
Higher! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"whats the other star/planet there? at 5 oclock?"
It's Aldebaran and it is a red giant star located about 65 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87 it is the brightest star in the constellation and is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. The name Aldebaran is Arabic (al-dabaran) and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky."
Must be a male star then |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?"
Higher! "
You sure you don't prefer lower! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky.
Must be a male star then "
Hey, all stars are male. You don't think the Creator of the Universe would let female stars run amok out there do you?
Imagine that, a female star with PMT.  |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky.
Must be a male star then
Hey, all stars are male. You don't think the Creator of the Universe would let female stars run amok out there do you?
Imagine that, a female star with PMT. "
What did you think supernovae were? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?"
Higher!
You sure you don't prefer lower! "
Depends which way round I am at the time
Wishy is all this info from the app you mentioned? thats really cool |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky.
Must be a male star then
Hey, all stars are male. You don't think the Creator of the Universe would let female stars run amok out there do you?
Imagine that, a female star with PMT.
What did you think supernovae were?"
Point taken.
Correction: There ARE female stars. Give them a VERY wide birth. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?"
Higher!
You sure you don't prefer lower!
Depends which way round I am at the time
Wishy is all this info from the app you mentioned? thats really cool "
No lol, some of it I know already but Wiki kindly saves me typing it all out. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This is the first time ever since ive been on the forums that ive actually been able to see something that other people can see
The mount of cricked necks and clouds ive had to endure through planet gazing and meteor showers is unbelievable!!
Tonight is your lucky night!
Now why does that remind me of an advert
Or is it from Brucie's "Play Your Cards Right?"
Higher!
You sure you don't prefer lower!
Depends which way round I am at the time
Wishy is all this info from the app you mentioned? thats really cool "
Aha fair point!
The App for the iPhone is called "Planets" strangely enough! |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"and translates literally as "the follower", presumably because this bright star appears to follow the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters" star cluster in the night sky.
Must be a male star then
Hey, all stars are male. You don't think the Creator of the Universe would let female stars run amok out there do you?
Imagine that, a female star with PMT.
What did you think supernovae were?
Point taken.
Correction: There ARE female stars. Give them a VERY wide birth. "
Black holes are very good at sucking too. |
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