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From: Gerry Ford on 4 Apr 2008 03:52
1995 DW1
Epoch 1995 Feb. 12.0 TT = JDT 2449760.5 Marsden
M 240.56097 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.87220579 Peri. 325.86185 +0.71396325 +0.69743383
a 1.0849009 Node 349.21340 -0.54541801 +0.49845325
e 0.5139556 Incl. 19.34279 -0.43906227 +0.51490816
P 1.13 H 20.5 G 0.15

#end excerpt

It's an interesting night for star-gazers. Rarely does a celestial display
have this amount of focus.

Saturn is in Leo. Cassini just flew by enceladus. Does anybody know
whether 1) there were particles captured 2) there would have been particles
to capture, but it looks like there weren't any (this is the largest chunk
of probability), or 3) nasa can't do feet vs metrics.

The problem with contemporary saturn location is to differentiate it from,
e.g. regelus. It's easy now because they form a right triangle with saturn
at the vertex. That's where our spaceship is.

Pluto is nowhere nearby. I think this sky makes for a good opportunity for
pluto -philes to take our final aim.


--

"That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows,
armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster
would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only
by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it
- and they are ten times as numerous - think and say quite the contrary."

~~ Leo Tolstoy


From: Gerry Ford on 15 Apr 2008 04:21

"Gerry Ford" <gerry(a)nowhere.ford> wrote in message
news:1207295075_772(a)news.newsgroups.com...

In the next 24 hrs, the moon will pass over Saturn and the spot that Saturn
was on the 4th of April. Saturn has moved so much that there is no longer
that right triangle in Leo.

Instead, there's a different ephemeral right triangle in Gemini, with
Castor, Pollux and Mars. Since only Cancer intervenes, and there's 12 signs
that add up to 2 pi, this triangle would be about sixty degrees off the
moon.

I've been given to understand not to expect data from enceladus. Burned-out
sensor. Rats.
--
"Shopping for toilets isn't the most fascinating way to spend a Saturday
afternoon. But it beats watching cable news."

~~ Booman


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