Across the Universe: Hunches
First published in The Tablet in December, 2005 Every December, along with the Christmas rush and the endless round of holiday parties, planetary astronomers have another deadline facing them: the...
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First published in The Tablet in January, 2007 Dark and dreary, January is a time to take off to new and exotic climes; or at least, to daydream about such trips. My own January voyage was a visit to...
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Across the Universe: Planetary Counsels
This column was first published in The Tablet in September 2005. Of course, as we all know, the discussions talked about here finally came to their climax in August 2006 with the definition of a...
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Across the Universe: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Pluto continues to make the news... this column dates from November, 2004, in the Tablet. The latest news from out where Pluto orbits has brought to my mind that ‘60s satire of TV science shows,...
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Across the Universe: Spinning our Hopes
This article was first published in The Tablet in December, 2005. I also ran it a year ago on this blog, before many of you became regular readers... and before I knew how to embed pictures. So I am...
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Across the Universe: Words, Words, Worlds
Originally published in The Tablet in March, 2004 – the first of many columns I wound up writing about the definition of a planet, leading up to the IAU decision about Pluto in 2006. And this is a...
View ArticleUltima Thule – resistance is futile
During World Space Week I was invited to do my workshop Pluto WOW !!! for a small group of children . I put the workshop together in order to highlight the incredible images sent back by the New...
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First published in The Tablet in January, 2007; we first ran it here in 2015. Dark and dreary, January is a time to take off to new and exotic climes; or at least, to daydream about such trips. My own...
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