http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/ Skyscrapers - RI Astronomical Society Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:18:15 GMT barringtonri http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/386 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/386 Kudos to Bob Horton and Jim Hendrickson for catching PanSTARRS from the glare of Providence. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:03:33 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/385 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/385 Comet 2013 A1 discovered in January, 2013 at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia by Rob McNaught is currently estimated in having a 1 in 600 chance of Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:59:43 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/384 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/384 To read the complete summary of NASA's Dawn spacecraft's journey to visit the minor planet Vesta, see the URL link below. A brief excerpt is below the URL Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:43:36 GMT Robert McGwier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/383 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/383 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvr7V0byh7s&feature=youtube_gdata_player [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:05:33 GMT barringtonri http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/382 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/382 Bob's image of Comet 168P Hergenrother prompts me to post my much less spectacular first image of "next year's great comet". The image was taken two days Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:31:31 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/381 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/381 The image shown above on the Home page is Comet 168P Hergenrother (as of 11-22-2012). It will be there for a couple of weeks. COMET 168P HERGENROTHER Comet Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:20:10 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/380 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/380 "NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet Jet Propulsion Laboratory August 30, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:51:17 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/379 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/379 Below is the link to observing reports for Saturday evening, Aug. 4, 2012. http://www.theskyscrapers.org/observatory-log-2012-august-4 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:07:06 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/376 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/376 Below is the link to observing reports for Saturday evening, July 21, 2012. http://www.theskyscrapers.org/observatory-log-2012-july-21 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:48:42 GMT Robert McGwier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/375 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/375 Required viewing is http://eyes.nasa.gov And I am sure many of you saw it on the TV coverage. One can only say wow after seeing this tool in operation. Bob Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:07:02 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/374 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/374 After a journey of about 250 million miles through the solar system, the Curiosity rover lands safely on Mars. Details of this alien spacecraft from Earth and Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:31:14 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/373 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/373 The links below show and describe how the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by the planet Pluto in 2015 and by many other Kuiper Belt Objects in the months to Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:24:45 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/372 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/372 http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/full/ "Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto News Release Number:* STScI-2012-32 July 11, 2012 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:06:00 GMT barringtonri http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/371 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/371 My goodness but this is a quiet group. Did the sun fail to shine in Scituate? A friend and I ran a small public event on the Barrington town hall lawn. Since Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:57:37 GMT Starman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/370 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skyscrapers_rias/message/370 Here is the January Dawn Journal update. The full article is here: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_01_27_12.asp A short quote from the journal:--