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  1. 04-04-07 There's Always Something New
    2. 4 Apr 2007 at 2:00am
    bPresented by: a href="http://www.coachtroy.com" target=_blankCoach Troy Jacobson/abrbrbra href="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/advertise.htm"img src="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/images/EndurancePlanet24x188.gif" border="0"/abrbrWhen Tess Geddes turned forty she made a pledge to herself to try something new each year. She had no idea the pledge would lead her to southwest Libya and a 100-mile non-stop race with fellow ultrarunner Sandy McCallum. On today's Endurance Planet, Tess tells us about The Libyan Challenge and how it gave her a new appreciation for everything around her./abr br bra href="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/programs/04-04-07_Tess_Geddes.asx"Play in Windows Media/a bra href="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/programs/04-04-07_Tess_Geddes.ram"Play in RealPlayer/a bra href="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/programs/04-04-07_Tess_Geddes.m3u"Play mp3 stream/a bra href="http://www.enduranceplanet.com/programs/04-04-07_Tess_Geddes.mp3"Direct link to mp3 file/a br /br /a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tncnewmedia/04-04-07_Tess_Geddes" target="_self"Comments/a


  2. Internal Reform Slow to Take Hold in Libya
    3. 14 Sep 2007 at 11:02pm
    Some Libyans want their country to change, letting go of dogmatic rhetoric that succeeded Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power 38 years ago. Even with foreign investment and increased entrepreneurship, the pace of change is measured.


  3. How Safe Is America's Food Supply.
    4. 25 Jul 2007 at 3:00pm
    Recent health scares have involved food imported from Mexico, India and China, but the latest recall involves meat products from Georgia. Wherever it comes from, how safe is the food supply. Also, a House committee will subpoena two presidential aides. Later, is the European Union paying ransom to Libya.


  4. NPR: 07-31-2007 News and Notes
    5. 31 Jul 2007 at 6:07pm
    Stories: 1) Sweeping Changes Sought in Veterans' Health Care 2) Will Panel's Suggestions Be Brought About? 3) Africa Update: Libya, Nigeria, Kenya 4) New Magazine Celebrates African Style 5) Challenging Africa's Standard of Beauty 6) Building a Memorial for Dr. King 7) The Importance of Making Connections 8) StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet 9) StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet


  5. NPR: 11-27-2007 News and Notes
    6. 27 Nov 2007 at 6:05pm
    Stories: 1) FBI Hate Crimes Report Explained 2) Government Underestimating Hate Crimes? 3) Africa Update: Nigeria Rejects AFRICOM 4) Jewish Tradition Lost in Libya 5) 'Ms.' Magazine Turns 35 6) Braun Turns to Earth for Latest Mission 7) StoryCorps Griot: A Chance Encounter


  6. Controversy over Monument to Reverend King
    7. 24 Jul 2007 at 9:44pm
    When it comes to the official monuments decorating city squares in China, Libya, Iraq, and the former Soviet Union, one thing that all these oversized statues of local dictators have in common is the laughably low quality of the art. The infamous bronze statue of Saddam Hussein, toppled in Baghdad after US troops seized the Iraqi capital, is a perfect example of this brand of official art: the inevitable stiffness of pose, obligatory right arm thrust upward toward a bright future, and total disregard for or lack of awareness of modern and contemporary art. Needless to say, all these monuments were produced by local artisans loyal to the political regime of the country...


  7. Deception: Pakistan, the US, and the Global Nuclear Weapons Trade
    8. 26 Oct 2007 at 2:05pm
    A. Q. Khan ndash; the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program ndash; is notorious for the part he played in the spread of nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. But what role did the United States play? Today we talk to two reporters for the emGuardian/em newspaper who spent 10 years researching the topic. Call in with your questions about Pakistan, deception, and the global trade in nuclear weapons. div class='blurb'Monday on Weekday: span class='normal'Wellndash;Behaved Women Rarely Make History/span/divbr /


  8. NPR: 06-06-2007 Most E-Mailed Stories
    9. 6 Jun 2007 at 1:07am
    Stories: 1) Szymborska's 'View': Small Truths Sharply Etched 2) Europe's Carbon Trading Market Sees Brisk Business 3) Father and Daughter, and Movies 4) Gas Stations Profit from More Than Just Gas 5) Wilmore Shines as 'Senior Black Correspondent' 6) Bernstein Claims to Reveal the 'Real' Hillary br/ br/ b[0:23:14]/b ... -- worked primarily as a television writer he won an Emmy for bwriting/b the Bernie Mac show which -- co created. He wrote for the sketch comedy show in living color and the sitcom the ... br/ b[0:32:28]/b ... -- when you're bwriting/b this sketch -- a senior in on the bwriting/b on it since you are writers los former. Where their disagreements on behind the scenes about whether to use the word or ... br/ b[0:43:46]/b ... And talking about some of the issues and television in regards to bwriting/b and those billions pretty interest in the same point -- -- -- all accounts that but it wasn't like -- it wasn't. ... br/ b[0:46:59]/b ... television right my counting eventually -- after well I really started enjoying bwriting/b producing Libya is going to stop performing as much amended and -- was in the he did Def comedy jam and them. ... br/ b[0:52:10]/b ... hard to get into profession -- -- -- television when you both bwriting/b for such -- shown. -- to any explanation for this ... br/ b[0:54:27]/b ... later. I guess there's an opening in the past Martin in the bwriting/b staff it can happen like that people prank on them. And then they've they've it was so funny and they wanted to ... br/ b[0:58:28]/b ... in her -- to have. Lived in different classes in terms of bwriting/b. ... br/


  9. Explainer: What Does a Nuclear Blueprint Look Like?
    10. 19 Jun 2008 at 1:02pm
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    What Does a Nuclear Blueprint Look Like? Lots and lots of computer files. By Chris Wilson The notorious A.Q. Khan smuggling ring had its hands on the design for a sophisticated and compact nuclear weapon, according to a new report from a former U.N. arms inspector. In 2006, electronic blueprints for the device were discovered on hard drives in several countries. What does a nuclear weapon blueprint look like? Lots of diagrams, instructions, and lists of materials. While the word blueprint may conjure images of white schematics on blue paper, the designs found on the computers of two Swiss businessmen associated with Khan contain gigabytes of digital information. The bomb in question is considerably more advanced than the first generation of atomic weapons, like those the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and schematics for such a weapon require extremely precise specifications for parts and materials. For example, the documents may prescribe which metal alloys to use and the precise milling—or cutting—of component pieces. Assuming the electronic blueprints described this week are fairly complete and authentic, they contain far more than just a set of pictures. Khan's smuggling network is also known to have sold designs for a Chinese ballistic nuclear missile, as investigators discovered after Libya gave up its nuclear aspirations in 2003. That weapon, which China tested in 1966, was heavier and less potent than the one at issue in this week's news. David Albright, the former inspector who authored the new report (PDF) tells the Explainer that the Chinese designs included about 100 drawings, mostly of component parts for the bomb, and an instruction manual based on a series of lectures that the Chinese had given to Pakistani scientists. Most experts say it is more important to stop the proliferation of the nuclear material needed to create an atomic weapon than the designs for the bombs themselves. But many fear that the blueprints could contain sensitive nuclear secrets that are classified in the United States. Even if a nation or terrorist group with nuclear ambitions lacked the knowledge or materials to construct the precise weapon from the blueprints, the instructions may offer some pointers for the development of a more general program.


  10. iWR WorldNews 28th Feb 6
    11. 28 May 2007 at 3:51pm
    A report by the human rights group Human Rights Watch says women and girls in Libya are being arbitrarily detained in social rehabilitation facilities. The report says the facilities which are portrayed as protective homes for women and girls considered vulnerable to engaging in moral misconduct, are actually de facto prisons. The rights group said these women and girls suffer serious human rights abuses in these facilities including violations of their rights to liberty, freedom of movement, personal dignity and privacy. The Libyan Government says it has established a council to look into the conditions in the facilities.;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;: .,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:European Union foreign ministers have expressed regret that Muslims were offended by cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in European papers. At a meeting in Brussels on Monday they expressed deep concern at the events that followed and agreed to rebuild ties with Muslim nations. However, they also defended freedom of speech and condemned the violent response to the cartoons. The cartoons first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September. One of the cartoons pictures the prophet wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb sparking widespread protests across the Muslim world.;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:. ,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:Peace talks between Colombia's government and rebels have ended without agreement. Both parties are to meet again in April. The parties had planned to start creating an agenda for a formal peace process. Instead negotiations centred around demands made by Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, who want to be recognised as political leaders and not as terrorists. Columbians still live under the threat of violence. The country's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has avoided peace talks in recent years and frequently ignores a ceasefire agreement.;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:. ,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:Burundi has defended claims made in a report by the group Human Rights Watch which alleged that executions and torture by rogue soldiers and police officers have continued under the country's new government. A Burundian government official said the cases of abuse were isolated and that perpetrators were punished. Human Rights Watch claimed suspected rebels and civilians have been executed and tortured in a drive to defeat the rebel group, The National Liberation Force. The NLF remains the only rebel group that has not taken part in peace deals as the country emerges from more than a decade of ethnic clashes between majority Hutus and minority Tutsis.;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;: .,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:.,;:Venezuela's oil minister has warned the US it could steer oil exports away from them and toward other markets. The oil minister, Rafael Ramírez, said the move would be in response to what he described as aggression by the Bush administration. The minister’s comments and the increasing sale of Venezuelan oil to China, are seen by political analysts as a signal that Venezuela is serious about finding new buyers. Venezuela is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and supplies more than 10 percent of U.S. oil imports.


  11. G’DAY WORLD #275 - Bernard Malige on French Healthcare
    12. 7 Aug 2007 at 9:33am
    hello:pMy guest today is a G#8217;Day World listener from Paris, Bernard Malige. Bernard, who works as an engineer with Renault, helped me better understand the French system of taxation and social services. If you#8217;ve seen Michael Moore#8217;s latest film SICKO, you already know that in France, pretty much all health care (except high end elective procedures) is paid for by the Government out of your taxes. When I saw the film, I wasn#8217;t sure how high the taxes were in France and Bernard offered to help out. Turns out, they are quite low. If you#8217;re an American, you probably don#8217;t want to listen to this show. It#8217;ll just depress you. We also talk a little bit about the French public#8217;s view on Iraq, the USA, Libya and Napoleon. /p pBernard is now our official #8220;European Correspondent#8221;. /p pstrongBecome part of the G#8217;Day World conversation. /strong/p pI#8217;ve created a couple of groups inside Second Life. You can now add yourself to the following groups:/p liFriends Of G#8217;Day World/li liMODM/li liThe Podcast Network/li pIf I knew how to link directly to those groups from here, I would. But I don#8217;t. So for now you just need to search for them in-world. Or you can add #8220;Cameron Switchblade#8221; to your friends and check out the groups I belong to. /p pIf you#8217;re a member of a href="http://www.facebook.com"Facebook/a, you can a href="http://www.facebook.com/p/Cameron_Reilly/521490098"ADD ME AS A FRIEND/a and then a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2420785749"ADD YOURSELF TO THE G#8217;DAY WORLD GROUP/a. /p pa href="http://www.twitter.com/cameronreilly"Add me to your Twitter account. /a/p pDo me a solid and a href="http://digg.com/podcasts/TPN_G_day_World"digg the show/a./p pGet a href="http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/adserver/adclick.php?bannerid=116#038;zo neid=214#038;source=#038;dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepodcastnetwork.com%2Fget-the-latest -shows-from-tpn-on-your-desktop%2F"the TPN version of Particls/a./p pDon#8217;t forget to make use of my new comments line - +613 9016 9699. /p pYou can now buy transcripts of this podcast from a href="http://www.podsinprint.com/search.asp?st=g%27day+world"Pods In Print/a. /p pIf you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don#8217;t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed and leave us a voice comment!/p ul lia href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=381627"Subscribe to TPN::G#8217;day World by Email/a/li lia href="itpc://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/feed/"If you use iTunes, click here./a/li liIf you use another aggregator, a href="http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/feed/"grab our RSS feed here./a/li liIf you don#8217;t know what I#8217;m talking about, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator"read this description in Wikipedia/a./li /ul pThe G#8217;Day World Theme Song is a href="http://magnatune.com/artists/blownaparts"“Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts/a./p p!-- AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN --br / a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="window.open('http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=cameronreilly#038;url=' +encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'#038;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'addthis', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,width=620,height=520,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no, status=no'); return false;" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"img src="http://www.addthis.com/images/button2-bm.png" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" border="0" /a/p


  12. Tour of the Sky: June 2007
    13. 31 May 2007 at 11:51am
    font size="3" /fontfont size="3"a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/jun_07_lunar_cal.png"img border="0" src="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/jun_07_lunar_cal.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;"//abr/br//font h3font size="3"Download this month's sky map!/font/h3 pfont size="3"Kym Thalassoudis does a wonderful job creating accurate and easy to use star maps every month! Visit his site at www.skymaps.com for skymaps and links to other useful astronomical sites. Also a great portal for astronomical gifts! /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Northern hemisphere sky map/abr/a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Southern hemisphere sky map/a /font/p pfont size="3"Those in the Southern Hemisphere should also visita href="http://www.sbstars.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=40Itemid=9 3" James Barclay's site/a for a great tour of the Southern Hemisphere June sky. /font/p pfont size="3"Another great site for Southern Hemisphere viewers is the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand's Southern Hemisphere Calendar can be found at the a href="http://www.rasnz.org.nz/SolarSys/Jun_07.htm"RASNZ site/abr/Ian Musgrave has a very handy Southern Hemisphere site called a href="http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm"Southern Sky Watch/a. /font/p pfont size="3"Download quot;a href="http://www.astrowhatsup.com/download-the-book/"What's up 2007: 365 days of Skywatching/aquot; by Tammy Plotner, published by Universe Today (Faser Cain) it is a fantastic and it is free!/font/p h3font size="3"Planets for June 2007/font/h3 ul font size="3"libMercury/b- Look for Mercury between Venus and the horizon after sunset until around the 18th (depending upon your latitude) when Mercury disappears in the glare of the sun. Mercury is best at the beginning of the month where he sits just to the NE of M35, an unorganized open cluster at the feet of Castor. Also in the immediate area is NGC 2158 which I think is a much nicer object. At greatest elongation on June 2nd Mercury has reached hip high between the twins before swinging back towards the sun via Pollux's knees. .4 mag (1st) to 3.7 mag (21st) /lilibVenus/b- High in the sky after dark Venus continues to highlight the western sky reaching greatest elongation 45 deg east on June 9th. Venus makes several great photo ops this month starting with a nice line up with Castor and Pollux (Gemini) the first couple of days of June before sliding over to graze the Beehive Cluster (M44) between the 12th and 13th. Get the telescopes and cameras ready for the 17th-19th as the young Moon slides past Venus and Saturn. Finally she pairs up with Saturn between the 28th and the first of July for a nice close encounter. -4.1 mag (1st) to - 4.2 mag (21st) /lilibMars/b- In Pisces until June 26th when it passes into Ares. Look for the red planet near the moon on the 10th where they both sit on the western arm of Pisces. Very low on the horizon for mid-upper Northern Latitudes better viewing the further south you go and outstanding in the Southern Hemisphere. 0.8 mag (1st) to 0.8 mag (21st) /lilibJupiter/b- King of the planets is finally in prime position rising as the sun sets and is visible all night. Opposition on June 5th puts Jupiter 400 million miles from Earth. Jupiter moves eastward across lower Ophiucus and by Aug 1st sits just north of Antares. Low in the sky for mid-high northern latitudes moves higher in the sky as you move south. Some nice days to catch his four Galilean moons close to the planet disk are: 4th, 5th, 12th, 29th, and 30th -2.6 mag (1st) to -2.6 mag (21st) /lilibSaturn/b-Absolutely beautiful in Leo almost at the Cancer border. Saturn's rings are tipped 15 deg from edgewise towards us so take advantage of these beautiful rings by catching Saturn earlier in the month before the Moon rises. Saturn make a nice appearance near Venus between the 17th and 30th and the Moon on the 18th 0.5 mag (1st) to 0.5 mag (21st) /lilibUranus/b-In Aquarius 5.9 mag (1st) to 5.8 mag (21st) /lilibNeptune/b-Will camp out in Capricorn all year long 7.9 mag (1st) to 7.9 mag (21st) /liliba href="http://media.skytonight.com/images/Vesta07_Finder_BW.gif"4 Vesta/a/b -Categorized as a minor planet (Vesta family Main Belt) we are adding her to the mix because she will be not far from Jupiter this month and at a magnitude of 5.4 - 6.0 will be a good naked eye object for June. Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt with a mean diameter of 540 km and was named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth. pOn the 4th of July she spends Independence day just north of the double star Beta Scorpius. /p /li/font/ul font size="3"b /b/fonth3font size="3"bKey Dates for June 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"Days and Times in UT (a href="http://time_zone.tripod.com/"help with time/a)br/Observations are for 8pm for the mid-southern latitudes and for 11pm for the mid-northern latitudes. /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.sunrisesunset.com/"Great site/a for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards /font/p pfont size="3"Occultation information can be found at the a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a website! bAstronomical Highlights/b table tbody tr tdbnbsp;Junenbsp; br//b/td tdbr//td /tr tr td1/td td- Full Moon 1:04 UT/td /tr tr td2/td td- Mercury at greatest elongation, 23 deg east of the Sun (evening sky)/td /tr tr td5/td td- Jupiter at opposition 23h UT /td /tr tr td8/td td- Last Quarter Moon 11:43 UT/td /tr tr td9/td td- Venus at greatest elongation 45 deg east of Sun (evening sky)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td- Jupiter double shadow transit 9:18 UT/td /tr tr td10/td td- Moon near Mars (5 deg S of Moon)22h UT in the morning sky/td /tr tr td12/td td- Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) 363,780 km from Earth/td /tr tr td12-13/td td- Venus skims the Beehive Cluster (M44)/td /tr tr td13/td td- For you sundial lovers the equation of time at 0 ... for more a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time"information/a./td /tr tr td15/td td- New Moon 3:13 UT/td /tr tr td17/td td- Pluto at opposition/td /tr tr td18/td td- Moon near Venus, possible daytime occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/afor occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td19/td td- Moon near Saturn (8h UT) AND Regulus (23h) possible occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/afor occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td21/td td- June Solstice 18:06 UT The sun reaches its highest point north of the celestial equator and is at 'stand still' before moving south again. This is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere (middle or beginning of summer) or the shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere (middle or beginning of winter). For a great animation of the 'seasons' check out the a href="http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/01_EarthSun_E2.htm l"Prentice Hall/a site /td /tr tr td22/td td- First Quarter Moon 13:15 UT/td /tr tr td23/td td- Uranus at standstill begins its retrograde motion (westward)/td /tr tr td24/td td- Moon at apogee (furthest from Earth) 404,540 km/td /tr tr td28/td td- Moon near Antares 8h UT possible occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td30/td td- Full Moon 13:49 UT /td /tr tr tdbr//td td- Close encounter of Venus and Saturn /td /tr /tbody /table b h3Monthly a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_messier.asp"Messier/a*/h3/b /font/p pfont size="3"This month we attack the heart of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. If you download show #39 we actually walk you through a nice long list of Virgo Galaxies including those listed below. /font/p pfont size="3"These 13 galaxies all within less than 100 square degrees of sky and the brightest of these galaxies, M87, is only 8.6 in total magnitude so this will be a telescope only month. Plan on searching for small faint fuzzies, dark, clear skies are a must./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4374.jpg"M84/a, a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4406.jpg"M86/a - A pair of elliptical galaxies in the famous Markarian's Chain in Virgo. Appear as small fuzzy balls with bright, almost stellar cores. Both easily fit into the same low power field of view. M86 is slightly brighter and more oval than round M84./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4486.jpg"M87/a - M87 - Elliptical galaxy famous for its black hole and jet. Another round fuzzy ball with a bright core. Slightly brighter than both M84 and M86./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4552.jpg"M89/a and elliptical galaxy paired with spiral galaxy a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4569.jpg"M90/a - Both of these galaxies fit into the same low power field of view. M89 is another round fuzzy ball similar to M84, while M90 appears as an oval patch of light larger than M89. M90 has a bright central region./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4548.jpg"M91/a - Spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. A faint, slightly irregular oval hazy patch of light./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4501.jpg"M88/a - A small oval shaped fuzzy patch with a bright stellar core. Similar in size and shape to M90. Can fit into the same field of view as M91. Bump up the power and see if you can tease out the spiral arms./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4579.jpg"M58/a - Another spiral galaxy that appears as a slightly oval shaped fuzzy patch of light with a bright central region./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4621.jpg"M59/a, a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4649.jpg"M60/a - M59 and M60, both are elliptical galaxies and both can easily fit into the same field of view. M59 is a small, hazy oval patch, not all that easy to see. M60 is another fuzzy oval patch of light, larger and brighter than M59./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4254.jpg"M99/a - A bright round fuzzy patch of light which is a face on spiral galaxy./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4192.jpg"M98/a - This edge-on spiral galaxy appears as a bright pencil like streak of light./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4321.jpg"M100/a - A round hazy glow of light, bright in the center but gradually fading towards the edge. Using more power and averted vision see if you can detect the spiral arms of this face on galaxy./font/p pfont size="3"For navigating the Virgo Cluster I highly recommend quot;Mastering the Virgo Clusterquot; by Alan M MacRobert; Sky amp; Telescope (Archives); May 1994; 42;/font/p font size="3"*Monthly Messier information gleaned from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Moncton Centre Quebec and from the Astronomy Connection website. /font h3font size="3"bAstronomical Highlights for 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"bEarth's major motions for a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html"2007/abr//b table tbody tr tdPerihelion/td tdbr//td tdJan 3 20h(UT)/td /tr tr tdFirst Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdFeb 2-6/td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdMar 21 00:07(UT)/td /tr tr tdSecond Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdMay 4-7/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdJune 21 18:06(UT)/td /tr tr tdAphelion/td tdbr//td tdJuly 4 00h (UT) /td /tr tr tdThird Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdAug 5-8/td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdSept 23 19:51(UT)/td /tr tr tdFourth Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdNov 5-8/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdDec 22 06:08(UT)/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bPlanet Positions for 2007/bbr/ table tbody tr tdbr//td tdbJan/b/td tdbFeb/b/td tdbMar/b/td tdbApr/b/td tdbMay/b /td tdbJun/b/td tdbJul/b/td tdbAug/b/td tdbSep/b/td tdbOct/b/td tdbNov/b/td tdbDec/b/td /tr tr tdbVenus/b/td tdSgr/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdLeo/td tdSex/td tdCnc/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdVir/td /tr tr tdbMars/b/td tdOph/td tdSgr/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdGem/td tdGem/td /tr tr tdbJupiter/b/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td /tr tr tdbSaturn/b/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td /tr tr tdbUranus/b/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td /tr tr tdbNeptune/b/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bEclipses for 2007/b /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 19/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/1112007/L2007Mar03.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-1.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0222007/"animation/a!): The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in Pisces and is visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska /font/p pfont size="3"bSeptember 11/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/eclipse/map207.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-2.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0422007/"animation/a): The last eclipse of 2007 is a partial solar eclipse at the Moon's descending node in southern Leo. Its visibility is confined to parts of South America, Antarctica and the South Atlantic /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 3-4/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Mar03-Fig1.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in the Arctic region, Africa, Europe, Asia except for extreme eastern region, most of Indonesia, western Australia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, extreme eastern South America, Greenland, the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the eastern North Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in Africa, Europe, western Asia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula, South America, eastern North America, Greenland, the Arctic region, the Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean, and the extreme eastern South Pacific Ocean. /font/p pfont size="3"bAugust 28/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Aug28-Fig3.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in North America, South America except extreme east, Antarctica except for Enderby Land, New Zealand, eastern Australia, extreme northeastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the western Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in New Zealand, Australia, most of Antarctica except Queen Maud Land, Indonesia, eastern Asia, western North America, the Pacific Ocean, and the southeastern Indian Ocean. /font/p font size="3"Eclipse information from: a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/solar.html"NASA Eclipse Homepage/a, a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/"Eclipses Online/a (HM Nautical Almanac Office, UK in coordination with the a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclbin/query_usno.cgi"U.S. Naval Observatory/a) /fontpfont size="3"ba href="http://meteorshowersonline.com/may_radiants.html"Meteor Showers for 2007/a/bbr/ /font/p pfont size="3"As luck would have it, all the imajor/i meteor showers reach their peaks in 2007 with the Moon out of the sky. Any of these showers can produce dozens of shooting stars each dark hour leading up to dawn. /font/p font size="3"Mark your calendar to look for...br/ /fontul font size="3"liLyrids on April 23rd /liliPerseids on August 13th /liliOrionids on October 21st /liliLeonids on November 18th /liliGeminids on the night of December 13-14 (Meteor enthusiasts are keenly awaiting the Geminids in 2007 because their progenitor, the defunct comet Phaethon, precedes them in a flyby of Earth on December 10th.) /li/font/ul pfont size="3"bComets for June/b/font/p font size="3"a href="http://cometography.com/current_comets.html"Gary Kronk's/a comet and meteor pagesbr/a href="http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html"Skyhound/a Comet pages /fontpfont size="3"b h3Historical and Current Events/h3/bb...Did you know?/bbr/ /font/p pfont size="3"Culled from Wikipedia byb Mark Tillotson/b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June ) br/iThanks Mark!!!/i/font/p pfont size="3" pre 6/1 b- 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (Moon crater) 6/2 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world. 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. b- 1930 â Pete Conrad, NASA Astronaut. Flew on Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2 missions. (d. 7/8/1999) 6/3 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time. b- 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708) 6/4 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past. b- 470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC) b- 460 BC - Hippocrates, Greek historian (d. 370 BC) b- 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832) (Moon crater) 6/5 b- 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) (Moon crater) 6/6 1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. b- 1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476) (Moon crater) b- 1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) b- 1932 - David Scott, NASA astronaut. Flew on Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 and 15. 6/7 d- 1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (b. 1787) (Moon crater) 6/8 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium. b- 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712) (Moon crater) 6/10 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. b- 1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768) (Moon crater) b- 1929 â James A. McDivitt, NASA Astronaut. Command Pilot, Gemini 4 (1965) and Commander, Apollo 9 (1969). 6/11 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe. b- 1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) (Moon crater) 6/12 1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). 2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries. b- 1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643) 6/13 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. b- 1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829) (Moon crater) b- 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879) (Moon crater) d- 1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924) 6/14 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables." 1962 - The European Space Research Organization is established in Paris â later becoming the European Space Agency. 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. 6/15 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. b- 1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831) (Moon crater) 6/16 1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. 1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. b- 1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (d. 1980) 6/17 b- 1714 - CÃsar-FranÃois Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784) 6/18 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision. 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. d- 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573) (Moon crater) d- 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851) 6/19 b- 1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928) (Moon crater) b- 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (Moon crater) b- 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut 6/20 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered. 1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut 6/21 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix Hydra on this date. b- 1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist (d. 1716) (Moon crater) b- 1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) (Moon crater) b- 1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932) (Moon crater) b- 1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut d- 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) (Moon crater) 6/22 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. b- 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) d- 1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380) 6/23 b- 1612 - Andrà Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660) (Moon crater) b- Donn Eisele, NASA Astronaut. Flew on Apollo 7. (d. 12/2/1987) 6/24 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth. b- 1485 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) b- 1915 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) d- 1946 - Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986) d- 1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer ( b. 1580) (Moon crater) 6/25 1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir. d- 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598) (Moon crater) 6/26 1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. b- 1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951) (Moon crater) b- 1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970) (Moon crater) 6/28 d- 1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818) (Moon crater) 6/29 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.) b- 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938) (Moon crater) b- 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut 6/30 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity. 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia. 1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft is killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. d- 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 o Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933) o Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928) o Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935) /pre/font/p font size="3"Help us out by leaving a donation in the ol' PayPal hat or write us a favorable review in iTunes of Podcast Pickle or iPodder! /fontpfont size="3"bMusic/b a href="http://www.scottishguitarquartet.com/"Scottish Guitar Quartet/a -quot;Romance within youquot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?pageNum_MusicList=2t otalRows_MusicList=11BandHash=b5b279fae8c0e5cd470ff535a3a63440"Boom Boom Beckett/a - quot;Summertimequot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=df279a56eb67de582ba39534773a3470"Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet/a - quot;Pour-quoi, pour-quoi pasquot;/font/p
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