You'll also notice that during much of the 2000s, there is a gap in discoveries at about the 5 o'clock position. This corresponds to monsoon season in the southwest U.S. (roughly July to mid September). Most of the discovered asteroids in the past decade were made by the Catalina Sky Survey, based just outside of Tucson, AZ, and they generally don't bother observing during monsoon season because of the increase in cloud cover.
Isn't facebook really just an aggregation of parts, parts which having a best-of-breed alternative outside facebook? Yet this is what everyone is beholden to?
Hello, network effect.
There are a variety of reasons facebook has more traffic. We can discuss them ad nauseum but for now, the reason facebook has more traffic is because it has more traffic. That will continue--perhaps not indefinitely, but for a good while, regardless of technical considerations.
Someone else may have a better technical implementation or whatever, but all my friends are on facebook . . .
To refine this a bit, what you could do is make 'zone' near the extreme of the accelerator pedal travel which will provide full acceleration. But then another zone right at the end of the travel where the acceleration would cut out (and perhaps not just completely cut out instantly, but gradually ramp down as it gets very near the end of travel down to nothing at the very end of travel).
What that would do is make it easy enough to get completely full acceleration out of your vehicle, but you would have to do so intentionally by finding that sweet spot--which is what we want here. You make the sweet spot plenty wide & easy to find.
But if you panic & slam the accelerator to the floor, you get no acceleration at all--which is also what you want.
Once people are used to this system (which would only take a couple minutes driving I would guess) the only times you'd be pressing the accelerator to the floor would be when you were #1 panicking for some reason #2 actually trying to apply full brakes.
In neither instance do you want to give that person full acceleration (the last thing you want is a panicky person at the helm of a motor vehicle with full acceleration, and the person trying to apply the brakes obviously doesn't want full acceleration either).
Yes, but as I point out above, this itself is not 'no problem'.
It is a problem with the user interface of motor vehicles, that it is easy to get mixed up between the accelerator & brake pedals, especially when under stress.
This is a particular problem the can be addressed by particular solution, not just 'no problem'.
Or to put it it another way, it is a a DIFFERENT problem than what was a originally thought, but definitely not no problem at all.
If the incidents (or many of them, or even just some or a few of them) are caused by human factors--mixing up the brake & accelerator pedals--then we aren't we looking at that as a problem and figuring out how to solve it?
I don't know what the solution might be--maybe having the accelerator pedal give you some feedback if you slam it into the ground as you would a brake pedal in an emergency situation?
But regardless, it is a problem, it is a known problem, it is definitely a real and very dangerous problem, and there are bound to be solutions out there. Why does no one seem to be looking?
Small addition to the above--personally I like observing the sun through the eyepiece with a solar filter--the experience is more personal and you can see more detail.
But as others have pointed out elsewhere on this thread, you can use your telescope to project an image of the sun very easily.
This has a couple of advantages:
1. No extra equipment needed at all
2. Several people or even a small group can view simultaneously
3. You can project the image onto a piece of paper & the sketch the location/shape of sunspots directly
The sun is actually a really great object for observation with a small telescope exactly because of the advantages pointed out above. You could view it, for instance, every day for a week during school hours.
The sun is actually quite fascinating as a telescopic object. Sunspots are intricate and no two are the same. They change from day to day or even hour to hour (compared with most astronomical objects, which don't change much at all over the course of even months or years, as seen from even large earth-based telescopes, with few exceptions).
I've shown the sun to a number of school and youth groups and it never fails to get a "wow!!" and "I never knew the sun LOOKED like that".
With even a 4-inch scope (and solar filter of course) you'll be able to see a view very similar to the one here:
In addition, however, you'll be able to use different eyepieces to zoom in & see more detail in the sunspot clusters.
A great class project would be to view the sun daily for a week & make a sketch of the sunspots & their location on the sun. Over that time you'd see the sunspots rotate to different positions on the sun (thus your students will be able to directly observe the rotation of the sun & do things like calculate the speed of rotation if you're interested in that type of thing) and also change in shape & size.
Read that as "Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake CRISCO Sales".
I'm sorry to say, but after the infinite possibilities conjured up by that thought of all those illicit Chinese tubs of CRISCO (what are they doing with it? why do they need so much? why are they pirating it instead of just buying it a the supermarket? what, er, activities or businesses where they using it for?) the real story about ordinary old hardware counterfeiting was a pretty fair letdown . . . .
Wine seems pretty similar to this all right--assuming by "similar" you mean "exact polar opposite".
Wine's the sort of huge, complicated, moving target that one might expect to spend millions of dollars and many thousands of engineer-hours on and end up with nothing to show.
Yet somehow, with just a small team and without the millions of dollars poured into it, they somehow managed to come out with an actual working product.
FWIW I still have some programs & code I put together for the Apple II. Some of this goes back to 1980. Transferred the files over to PC way back when & then just transferred them from hard drive to hard drive as I've upgraded from one computer to another.
Well--fired up an Apple II emulator recently and guess what--lots of it still works . . . good old Applesoft, Integer Basic, "call -151" and all the rest . . .
If the SFGate diagram is correct and the arXiv article's calculation is correct, then the new, 19-foot high wall is still inadequate--because the tiger can jump from a spot 10 feet higher than the bottom of the moat.
According to the SFGate diagram, the distance from the edge of the grotto to the top of the "new" safety wall is 33 feet over and 9 feet up.
According go the calculations in the arXiv article, the tiger can theoretically jump 33 feet over and 12.5 feet up--clearing the "new" safety wall by an easy 3.5 feet vertical.
That might be theoretical, but you still won't find me standing there . . .
FWIW I've been using Office 2007 for several months now & (neglecting my opinion of the "ribbon" and all the other changes which could be discussed ad infinitim) the thing is just BUGGY.
Just every little thing, big and little. Today I was typing and somehow Word let the cursor scroll off the bottom of the window. So now I'm typing blind. This happened like 20 times in a row.
When you do mail merge and want to filter (to send to only selected recipients in your database) there are strange (and sometimes random) bugs.
And on and on. It's just buggy & inconsistent.
Result--when I had a really important project to actually get done the past couple of days, I reverted to Excel '97--which worked just fine.
(I have Office 97 & 2007 installed side by side & no problems with that end of things so far . . . )
Trent Reznor putting music on USB keys is not in itself a blanket license to distribute the songs at will.
Uhh, handing out the songs this way is pretty transparently designed to get them uploaded to P2P networks etc, get them widely distributed via the "underground", & start a buzz.
If that's NOT the reason for "leaking" them this way, then what the #$%*#% is?
It was made perfectly clear during the meeting that parts of the US government, at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others have no business supporting such projects.
Basically, what we are talking about here is the "parts of the U.S. government" working to turn the country into a police state.
Find all of the works more than 50 years old that are still actually valuable. There are not that many of them.
Buy all their copyrights.
Now none of those people/corporations have incentive to lobby for making copyright longer than 50 years, so go back to the various legislative bodies & have copyright length reduced to 50 years.
On the contrary, I use the illicit profits from my DVD pirating operation to fund my $10,000/month meth habit. Not only am I helping the local economy much more than legitimate businesses (no irritating license fees going off to Hollywood, no pesky taxes going back to Washington, D.C. . . . ) my well advanced case of meth mouth insures that local dentists are w-a-y ahead of where they would be with any dinky little route canal.
I apologize for posting AC but as you read below you'll see why . ..
This is a classical corporate decision making screwup.
HRB has for the past number of years distributed its tax prep. software* for its offices via CDs. Naturally given the nature of tax prep. software there are numerous updates over the course of the tax season.
(You realize of course that lots of federal & state tax changes & forms come down through November & December, but even as of Jan 1st of any given year, neither the IRS nor the states have all their tax forms for that year finalized . . . so any tax software must of necessity go through a process of continual updating throughout the tax season. That's just all part of the fun.)
In past years, HRB office's major software updates were sent out via CD and minor updates sent via network but had to be manually downloaded and applied.
Of course HRB had various problems with this system over the years--batches of CDs that were bad, local offices that didn't apply updates as they were supposed to. Just the normal very predictable kind of stuff. Plus there is lots of ticky upgrading stuff for local support people to do--going around sticking upgrade CDs in servers at various offices, etc.
So last summer HRB hatched the idea of rolling out automated download software. From the user's point of view in a local HRB office, this is a black-box bit of software that sits on the machine, automatically pulls the latest update from the HRB central server, and automatically updates all the needed software--not only the tax prep software but all the other necessary stuff like time clock, scheduling, point-of-sale, whatever.
When I heard about this plan for automated updates through the grapevine last summer I just about choked. And of course immediately predicted disaster. As did everyone else who actually understood the situation.
The HRB software is big. On the order of a full CD's worth of stuff or more for a major update, of which there are maybe 3 or 4 a year.
Most company-owned offices in urban areas have always-on broadband connections. So you could see this scheme working there (with good properly tested software, which it turned out this software download "tuner" was not).
Any network connection, even always-on broadband connections, are by their very nature of variable quality. And remember we're talking here about thousands of offices here in every conceivable part of the country and even overseas.
So you can imagine the type of problems that might crop up, especially if the autodownload software didn't recover well from errors (which it didn't), give the end user any information about its operation or errors it had encountered (which it didn't), or give the end user any way to recover from errors (which it didn't).
But lots of offices, e.g. in rural areas or franchises, are on 56K or lower (even MUCH lower--think *remote* rural areas) dial up connections.
To download a major update via dialup takes something like three days. And that is assuming all goes perfectly, which of course it never does.
Meanwhile since it is "black box" to the end user (don't want those pesky end users messing around with the innerds of our software!) the local HRB people don't even realize it is stuck 2% through the download and don't have any way to get it unstuck even if they did realize.
Getting it un-stuck involves calling into headquarters tech support, working your way through a few layers of that, then waiting for somebody from headquarters to remote into your office machine to issue the supersecret command to make the tuner reset itself on the stuck channel.
Meanwhile this fantabulous new download software was never really put through end-to-end testing. Yes, somebody must have more or less tried it out in a test lab somewhere, but nobody actually sat & tried to spend 3 days downloading a major upgrade over dialup from Oskaloosa to find out what might happen under realistic networ
This is a great example of the type of work that can and is still being done by amateur astronomers.
(Actually Clay Sherrod, who seems to be the first to have imaged this storm, isn't an amateur but he's active in the ALPO Mars section which consists mainly of amateurs and he images at a small observatory, not some huge government funded observatory with various gigantic telescopes.)
The thing is, the big expensive government funded telescopes, or the Hubble, for example, can take better photos of Mars than amateurs can. But there is the question of coverage . . . the big expensive telescopes just don't have the resources (ie, observing time) to image Mars (or any other particular object or planet) several times a night whenever that object is visible.
But amateurs do have the observing time available and they do the work . . . result is, amateurs do a lot of the meat & potatoes of keeping an eye on things like Mars or Jupiter.
Since Sherrod is imaging Mars pretty much every possible night, he was on the spot to catch this as it happened . . .
Also, if you haven't been following trends in astro-imaging, you may be amazed at the quality of images people are now getting using relatively modest telescopes (generally 8 to 14 inch scopes, the sort of thing you can buy basically off the shelf for maybe $800 to $5000) coupled with inexpensive webcams.
For some reason, there has been a bit of a dispute about what constitutes a planet vs. an asteroid, comet, other thing orbiting the sun, etc.
The usual solution suggested is that we need to make a up new word to describe this different class of objects--something that communicates that they are sort of planet-like, but not quite.
For instance, we have the word "planetoid" already--it describes pretty small chunks of rock that orbit the sun, like planets, but MUCH smaller.
So, in honor of hipsters and slackers everywhere, my suggestion for these objects, smaller than planets but larger than planetoids, is PLANETSTER.
If we can have Napster, Grokster, Aimster, Madster, Blubster, Blogster, Friendster, etc etc etc, then why not PLANETSTER, too?
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It is still available for download at CNet. http://download.cnet.com/Tricorder-for-Android/3000-20432_4-75025147.html
Thanks. Just downloaded and installed from that link.
OK, that is version 5.11 and at least on my phone, it has a fairly nasty force close bug.
The latest version is 5.12 and it is available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nex1dcidhb8t886
The original filename appears to be Tricorder_5.12.apk, so searching on that or similar brings up some more potential download locations.
It is still available for download at CNet. http://download.cnet.com/Tricorder-for-Android/3000-20432_4-75025147.html
Thanks. Just downloaded and installed from that link.
This was answered above by spacemandave:
You'll also notice that during much of the 2000s, there is a gap in discoveries at about the 5 o'clock position. This corresponds to monsoon season in the southwest U.S. (roughly July to mid September). Most of the discovered asteroids in the past decade were made by the Catalina Sky Survey, based just outside of Tucson, AZ, and they generally don't bother observing during monsoon season because of the increase in cloud cover.
Isn't facebook really just an aggregation of parts, parts which having a best-of-breed alternative outside facebook? Yet this is what everyone is beholden to?
Hello, network effect.
There are a variety of reasons facebook has more traffic. We can discuss them ad nauseum but for now, the reason facebook has more traffic is because it has more traffic. That will continue--perhaps not indefinitely, but for a good while, regardless of technical considerations.
Someone else may have a better technical implementation or whatever, but all my friends are on facebook . . .
To refine this a bit, what you could do is make 'zone' near the extreme of the accelerator pedal travel which will provide full acceleration. But then another zone right at the end of the travel where the acceleration would cut out (and perhaps not just completely cut out instantly, but gradually ramp down as it gets very near the end of travel down to nothing at the very end of travel).
What that would do is make it easy enough to get completely full acceleration out of your vehicle, but you would have to do so intentionally by finding that sweet spot--which is what we want here. You make the sweet spot plenty wide & easy to find.
But if you panic & slam the accelerator to the floor, you get no acceleration at all--which is also what you want.
Once people are used to this system (which would only take a couple minutes driving I would guess) the only times you'd be pressing the accelerator to the floor would be when you were #1 panicking for some reason #2 actually trying to apply full brakes.
In neither instance do you want to give that person full acceleration (the last thing you want is a panicky person at the helm of a motor vehicle with full acceleration, and the person trying to apply the brakes obviously doesn't want full acceleration either).
Yes, but as I point out above, this itself is not 'no problem'.
It is a problem with the user interface of motor vehicles, that it is easy to get mixed up between the accelerator & brake pedals, especially when under stress.
This is a particular problem the can be addressed by particular solution, not just 'no problem'.
Or to put it it another way, it is a a DIFFERENT problem than what was a originally thought, but definitely not no problem at all.
There you go. That's actually a really great idea and would solve this entire problem instantly.
If the incidents (or many of them, or even just some or a few of them) are caused by human factors--mixing up the brake & accelerator pedals--then we aren't we looking at that as a problem and figuring out how to solve it?
I don't know what the solution might be--maybe having the accelerator pedal give you some feedback if you slam it into the ground as you would a brake pedal in an emergency situation?
But regardless, it is a problem, it is a known problem, it is definitely a real and very dangerous problem, and there are bound to be solutions out there. Why does no one seem to be looking?
Small addition to the above--personally I like observing the sun through the eyepiece with a solar filter--the experience is more personal and you can see more detail.
But as others have pointed out elsewhere on this thread, you can use your telescope to project an image of the sun very easily.
This has a couple of advantages:
1. No extra equipment needed at all
2. Several people or even a small group can view simultaneously
3. You can project the image onto a piece of paper & the sketch the location/shape of sunspots directly
Some more ideas & tips here:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/3304766.html
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/observe/
Also as the single overall best tip for figuring out how to use your telescope: Subscribe to Sky & Telescope:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
After a year or so of reading that magazine each month you'll have a much better idea about what to do with your telescope and how to use it.
The sun is actually a really great object for observation with a small telescope exactly because of the advantages pointed out above. You could view it, for instance, every day for a week during school hours.
The sun is actually quite fascinating as a telescopic object. Sunspots are intricate and no two are the same. They change from day to day or even hour to hour (compared with most astronomical objects, which don't change much at all over the course of even months or years, as seen from even large earth-based telescopes, with few exceptions).
I've shown the sun to a number of school and youth groups and it never fails to get a "wow!!" and "I never knew the sun LOOKED like that".
With even a 4-inch scope (and solar filter of course) you'll be able to see a view very similar to the one here:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
In addition, however, you'll be able to use different eyepieces to zoom in & see more detail in the sunspot clusters.
A great class project would be to view the sun daily for a week & make a sketch of the sunspots & their location on the sun. Over that time you'd see the sunspots rotate to different positions on the sun (thus your students will be able to directly observe the rotation of the sun & do things like calculate the speed of rotation if you're interested in that type of thing) and also change in shape & size.
You can buy something like this:
http://www.telescope.com/control/accessories/telescope-and-eyepiece-filters/4*57-inch-id-orion-full-aperture-solar-filter
But far more economical is this (the 8x11 sheet at 20 euros is enough to build like three or four solar filters):
http://www.baader-planetarium.com/sofifolie/sofi_start_e.htm
Then use that film to construct a solar filter that will mount to your telescope as explained here:
http://www.baader-planetarium.com/sofifolie/bauanleitung_e.htm
Read that as "Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake CRISCO Sales".
I'm sorry to say, but after the infinite possibilities conjured up by that thought of all those illicit Chinese tubs of CRISCO (what are they doing with it? why do they need so much? why are they pirating it instead of just buying it a the supermarket? what, er, activities or businesses where they using it for?) the real story about ordinary old hardware counterfeiting was a pretty fair letdown . . . .
I have essentially all my in & outgoing email archived and easily searchable, dating back to 1994.
It is one of the most useful resources I have on my computer.
That is all.
Wine's the sort of huge, complicated, moving target that one might expect to spend millions of dollars and many thousands of engineer-hours on and end up with nothing to show.
Yet somehow, with just a small team and without the millions of dollars poured into it, they somehow managed to come out with an actual working product.
FWIW I still have some programs & code I put together for the Apple II. Some of this goes back to 1980. Transferred the files over to PC way back when & then just transferred them from hard drive to hard drive as I've upgraded from one computer to another.
Well--fired up an Apple II emulator recently and guess what--lots of it still works . . . good old Applesoft, Integer Basic, "call -151" and all the rest . . .
According to the SFGate diagram, the distance from the edge of the grotto to the top of the "new" safety wall is 33 feet over and 9 feet up.
According go the calculations in the arXiv article, the tiger can theoretically jump 33 feet over and 12.5 feet up--clearing the "new" safety wall by an easy 3.5 feet vertical.
That might be theoretical, but you still won't find me standing there . . .
FWIW I've been using Office 2007 for several months now & (neglecting my opinion of the "ribbon" and all the other changes which could be discussed ad infinitim) the thing is just BUGGY.
Just every little thing, big and little. Today I was typing and somehow Word let the cursor scroll off the bottom of the window. So now I'm typing blind. This happened like 20 times in a row.
When you do mail merge and want to filter (to send to only selected recipients in your database) there are strange (and sometimes random) bugs.
And on and on. It's just buggy & inconsistent.
Result--when I had a really important project to actually get done the past couple of days, I reverted to Excel '97--which worked just fine.
(I have Office 97 & 2007 installed side by side & no problems with that end of things so far . . . )
Uhh, handing out the songs this way is pretty transparently designed to get them uploaded to P2P networks etc, get them widely distributed via the "underground", & start a buzz.
If that's NOT the reason for "leaking" them this way, then what the #$%*#% is?
Really?
What's 1/5 of a foot then, in inches?
It was made perfectly clear during the meeting that parts of the US government, at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others have no business supporting such projects.
Basically, what we are talking about here is the "parts of the U.S. government" working to turn the country into a police state.
Find all of the works more than 50 years old that are still actually valuable. There are not that many of them.
Buy all their copyrights.
Now none of those people/corporations have incentive to lobby for making copyright longer than 50 years, so go back to the various legislative bodies & have copyright length reduced to 50 years.
And then we're good from here on out . . .
On the contrary, I use the illicit profits from my DVD pirating operation to fund my $10,000/month meth habit. Not only am I helping the local economy much more than legitimate businesses (no irritating license fees going off to Hollywood, no pesky taxes going back to Washington, D.C. . . . ) my well advanced case of meth mouth insures that local dentists are w-a-y ahead of where they would be with any dinky little route canal.
Er, design of the fairing and other aspects of the vehicle is not even close to low-tech. Just for example, see:
# 'Bent%20Commentary
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whatsup.htm
http://www.speed101.com/
I apologize for posting AC but as you read below you'll see why . . .
This is a classical corporate decision making screwup.
HRB has for the past number of years distributed its tax prep. software* for its offices via CDs. Naturally given the nature of tax prep. software there are numerous updates over the course of the tax season.
(You realize of course that lots of federal & state tax changes & forms come down through November & December, but even as of Jan 1st of any given year, neither the IRS nor the states have all their tax forms for that year finalized . . . so any tax software must of necessity go through a process of continual updating throughout the tax season. That's just all part of the fun.)
In past years, HRB office's major software updates were sent out via CD and minor updates sent via network but had to be manually downloaded and applied.
Of course HRB had various problems with this system over the years--batches of CDs that were bad, local offices that didn't apply updates as they were supposed to. Just the normal very predictable kind of stuff. Plus there is lots of ticky upgrading stuff for local support people to do--going around sticking upgrade CDs in servers at various offices, etc.
So last summer HRB hatched the idea of rolling out automated download software. From the user's point of view in a local HRB office, this is a black-box bit of software that sits on the machine, automatically pulls the latest update from the HRB central server, and automatically updates all the needed software--not only the tax prep software but all the other necessary stuff like time clock, scheduling, point-of-sale, whatever.
When I heard about this plan for automated updates through the grapevine last summer I just about choked. And of course immediately predicted disaster. As did everyone else who actually understood the situation.
The HRB software is big. On the order of a full CD's worth of stuff or more for a major update, of which there are maybe 3 or 4 a year.
Most company-owned offices in urban areas have always-on broadband connections. So you could see this scheme working there (with good properly tested software, which it turned out this software download "tuner" was not).
Any network connection, even always-on broadband connections, are by their very nature of variable quality. And remember we're talking here about thousands of offices here in every conceivable part of the country and even overseas.
So you can imagine the type of problems that might crop up, especially if the autodownload software didn't recover well from errors (which it didn't), give the end user any information about its operation or errors it had encountered (which it didn't), or give the end user any way to recover from errors (which it didn't).
But lots of offices, e.g. in rural areas or franchises, are on 56K or lower (even MUCH lower--think *remote* rural areas) dial up connections.
To download a major update via dialup takes something like three days. And that is assuming all goes perfectly, which of course it never does.
Meanwhile since it is "black box" to the end user (don't want those pesky end users messing around with the innerds of our software!) the local HRB people don't even realize it is stuck 2% through the download and don't have any way to get it unstuck even if they did realize.
Getting it un-stuck involves calling into headquarters tech support, working your way through a few layers of that, then waiting for somebody from headquarters to remote into your office machine to issue the supersecret command to make the tuner reset itself on the stuck channel.
Meanwhile this fantabulous new download software was never really put through end-to-end testing. Yes, somebody must have more or less tried it out in a test lab somewhere, but nobody actually sat & tried to spend 3 days downloading a major upgrade over dialup from Oskaloosa to find out what might happen under realistic networ
(Actually Clay Sherrod, who seems to be the first to have imaged this storm, isn't an amateur but he's active in the ALPO Mars section which consists mainly of amateurs and he images at a small observatory, not some huge government funded observatory with various gigantic telescopes.)
The thing is, the big expensive government funded telescopes, or the Hubble, for example, can take better photos of Mars than amateurs can. But there is the question of coverage . . . the big expensive telescopes just don't have the resources (ie, observing time) to image Mars (or any other particular object or planet) several times a night whenever that object is visible.
But amateurs do have the observing time available and they do the work . . . result is, amateurs do a lot of the meat & potatoes of keeping an eye on things like Mars or Jupiter.
More of Sherrod's photos of the beginning of the Mars dust storm and numerous photos of this Mars apparition.
Since Sherrod is imaging Mars pretty much every possible night, he was on the spot to catch this as it happened . . .
Also, if you haven't been following trends in astro-imaging, you may be amazed at the quality of images people are now getting using relatively modest telescopes (generally 8 to 14 inch scopes, the sort of thing you can buy basically off the shelf for maybe $800 to $5000) coupled with inexpensive webcams.
See numerous amateur astronomer's images of this apparition of Mars here. (warning--LOTS of images on that page).
The usual solution suggested is that we need to make a up new word to describe this different class of objects--something that communicates that they are sort of planet-like, but not quite.
For instance, we have the word "planetoid" already--it describes pretty small chunks of rock that orbit the sun, like planets, but MUCH smaller.
So, in honor of hipsters and slackers everywhere, my suggestion for these objects, smaller than planets but larger than planetoids, is PLANETSTER.
If we can have Napster, Grokster, Aimster, Madster, Blubster, Blogster, Friendster, etc etc etc, then why not PLANETSTER, too?
so what do you call a moon with no planet?
OK, should be obvious by now--MOONSTER.