The people that make the rules? * European Central Bank * European Parliament * European Commission
There's a mighty lot of thinking going on between those three...
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For its first 12 years, The ISS has been/will be an engineering project first, a science facility second (with the unending stream of budget cuts and cost overruns invariably being held against the science part). Only when the crew size is increased to 6, after the delivery and outfitting of Node Three, will sufficient crew time be available for science to take the forefront of ISS operations.
Even disregarding the ISS, ITER could give the LHC a good run for its money in the cost department, though it's not expected to begin operations for another 10 years.
Newton, Galilei, Mendel, Bohr, Da Vinci and several tens of thousands of their fellow trailblazing scientists and engineers would like to cash in their checks now...
Under those definitions, we'd only have 6 "planets" orbitting Sol: Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto. Mercury & Venus don't have satellites, and the satellites of Mars and 2003 UB313 aren't "planetoids" under your definition. So Pluto'd be a planet, but Venus (only 373 times more massive) wouldn't be.
I find it reasonable to ask you do to all of us a favour, and -not- give it a go.
You mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, right? Or were you willfully trying to discriminate against Welsh, Scottish & Northern Irish goldfarmers?
Idem for WotC's Star Wars Roleplaying Game, which has been belly-up for about 18 months now (or, "suspended indefinately", as it is referred to on WotC's Forums), all to the benefit of the "less hassle for continuity checking", "gotta catch'em all" miniatures game.
Despite all this, I still find myself looking forward to seeing what Lucas'll cook up for his upcoming SW TV series, though. It'll better be really good, for their sake... the fans might not be as - forgiving - as they once were...
Arrakis is the third planet orbiting the star Canopus, a.k.a Alpha Carinae (and with Canopus being 20000 times more luminous than Sol, that'd have to be a pretty wide orbit, even for a desert planet), and does indeed have two moons.
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00:59:60 CET, you mean.
And there are other timezones besides Greenwich Mean Time and Central European Time in Europe too: Eastern European Time, Moscou Time and even a smattering of Samara Time and Yekaterinburg Time.
r: Distance Sun->Black hole ~= 2600 lightyears = 9.461e15 m.
More like 26000ly (± 1400ly), which ~= 2.45e20 m. That leaves 1.7e16 N.
Still respectable, but peanuts compared to the effects of the other 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
The people that make the rules?
* European Central Bank
* European Parliament
* European Commission
There's a mighty lot of thinking going on between those three...
For its first 12 years, The ISS has been/will be an engineering project first, a science facility second (with the unending stream of budget cuts and cost overruns invariably being held against the science part). Only when the crew size is increased to 6, after the delivery and outfitting of Node Three, will sufficient crew time be available for science to take the forefront of ISS operations.
Even disregarding the ISS, ITER could give the LHC a good run for its money in the cost department, though it's not expected to begin operations for another 10 years.
Newton, Galilei, Mendel, Bohr, Da Vinci and several tens of thousands of their fellow trailblazing scientists and engineers would like to cash in their checks now...
Funny how the Small Bodies of the Solar System page doesn't breathe a word about Eris. Nor does their site search return any results on that term.
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Seems like some people haven't digested Pluto's demotion yet
If one has to simplify the operation of SRBs to one dimension, I'd go with "burn from the inside out".
There's nothing 'NASA' or 'threat' about that number. It is simply the identifier assigned to that particular rock (a.k.a. minor planet) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. A few other ones are 1 Ceres, 136199 Eris, and 134340 Pluto.
Under those definitions, we'd only have 6 "planets" orbitting Sol: Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto. Mercury & Venus don't have satellites, and the satellites of Mars and 2003 UB313 aren't "planetoids" under your definition. So Pluto'd be a planet, but Venus (only 373 times more massive) wouldn't be.
I find it reasonable to ask you do to all of us a favour, and -not- give it a go.
50000 Quaoar, 28978 Ixion, 20000 Varuna, 90482 Orcus, 90377 Sedna & others are similar objects already classified as "minor planets". 2003 UB 313 (a.k.a. Xena), 2003 EL 61 (a.k.a. Santa) & 2005 FY9 (a.k.a. The Easterbunny) are still pending review and final classification.
That would be LV-426 (Acheron).
You mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, right? Or were you willfully trying to discriminate against Welsh, Scottish & Northern Irish goldfarmers?
Burn!
Idem for WotC's Star Wars Roleplaying Game, which has been belly-up for about 18 months now (or, "suspended indefinately", as it is referred to on WotC's Forums), all to the benefit of the "less hassle for continuity checking", "gotta catch'em all" miniatures game. Despite all this, I still find myself looking forward to seeing what Lucas'll cook up for his upcoming SW TV series, though. It'll better be really good, for their sake ... the fans might not be as - forgiving - as they once were ...
Hm ... no recognion for the Euro sign at slashdot, eh ... should have known. Anyway, that's about 10800$/kg for you Amerikanski's.
Or, for a more recent vehicle (albeit one not yet matching Ariane IV's excellent service record):
Ariane V ECA, 777tons lauch mass, 20.6 tons to LEO (200x300km, 51.6deg orbit) = +- 2.65%
(and, at +- 185M, comes down to +- 9000/kg)
Arrakis is the third planet orbiting the star Canopus, a.k.a Alpha Carinae (and with Canopus being 20000 times more luminous than Sol, that'd have to be a pretty wide orbit, even for a desert planet), and does indeed have two moons.