http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/ Khagol Mandal - Amateur Astronmers-India Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:58:20 GMT Abhir Joshi http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1126 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1126 Good snap! It must have been very exciting. I remember one of the Leonids from '97 or '98 where we watched from Vangani and at that time too we had seen Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:46:58 GMT A.P. Deshpande http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1125 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1125 good catch Sameer. and nice to hear abt the 'old' team back together. keep it up.  Abhay Deshpande ATF, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-Shi Ibaraki-Ken, Japan 305 0801 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:04:17 GMT Sameer Thakur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1124 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1124 Hi All Sorry for broken image link... Here is updated URL of Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/thakursam/4116156019/ Have a Nice Day Sameer ... -- Sameer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:10:57 GMT Sameer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1123 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1123 Hi All, We (me, Nilesh Desai, Ganesh Kale, Girish Vaze & Swapnil Kore) went to Lonavala, for meteor shower observation & Photography. The Sky was cloudy by the Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:11:09 GMT Sameer Thakur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1122 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1122 Hi All, Is anybody planning to go to vangani for Leonid ? I guess it will be 17th Night - 18th Morning !!! Regards, Sameer Thakur ... -- Sameer [Non-text Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:55:17 GMT Sameer Thakur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1121 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1121 I hope by that time, Rain gets over !!! Have a Clear Sky Sameer ... -- Sameer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:47:58 GMT Hrishi Joglekar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1120 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1120 Looks like Leonids 2009 is going to be quite favorable for India http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/10nov_leonids2009.htm?list159271 [Non-text portions of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:08:26 GMT A.P. Deshpande http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1119 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1119 as i pointed in other mail, the debate might exist for sake of debate. how ever the issue of iridium existence needs to be explained by Volcanic activity Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:04:58 GMT A.P. Deshpande http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1118 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1118 Dr Chatterjee, though of Indian Origin is at Uni of Texas and i think has good support for crater related work. The issue needs to be focussed upon, which i Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:34:15 GMT Sujata Kardile http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1117 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1117 Hi,   This is about accuracy of Dinasaur Extinction dating. Recently Paul Renne and his team from University of California, Berkeley has refined the dating Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:08:07 GMT Sameer Thakur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1116 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1116 I totally agree with Abhay. There is not much study of crater itself and because of size and location of crater it seems to be beyond reach of Indian Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:49:01 GMT A.P. Deshpande http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1115 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1115 the Shiva crater was reported long time back. It is back into the news due to 'yet againg announcing the same result'. The new flavor is that of Shiva crater Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:08:43 GMT Sameer Thakur http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1114 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1114 Hi All, this theory has been suggested long back, but there is very less evidence to support this, considering the scale of crater, there are other Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:51:43 GMT Hrishi Joglekar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1113 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1113 Hi, Recent analysis shows that wipe out of dinosaurs may have caused not really due to Chicxulub Impact but due to Shiva crater centered at Bombay High. Read Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:37:48 GMT saurabhdpatil http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1112 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/khagolmandal2/message/1112 Hello, Happy Diwali to all the members of khagol mandal. I request you to avoid bursting crackers (as far as possible). Crackers are disaster to the ecological