Re: NASA - WISE Launch Moves to Monday, Dec. 14

2009-12-11 Thread Casey Dougall
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > And I believe the correct term is now > > Non-Caucasian little person. > > (Friday not-so-funny. but I tried) > > hahah, right. Well they say brown dwarf stars don't throw back enough light to be picked up correctly by other imagery. He

Re: NASA - WISE Launch Moves to Monday, Dec. 14

2009-12-11 Thread Jerry Johnson
And I believe the correct term is now Non-Caucasian little person. (Friday not-so-funny. but I tried) On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Vivec wrote: > > what brown dwarf? > you know something we don't...? > 0_0 > > 2009/12/11 Casey Dougall : > > Sounds like NASA is gearing up to track a lil *b

Re: NASA - WISE Launch Moves to Monday, Dec. 14

2009-12-11 Thread Vivec
what brown dwarf? you know something we don't...? 0_0 2009/12/11 Casey Dougall : > Sounds like NASA is gearing up to track a lil *brown* dwarf entering our > neck of the woods. The mission will actually uncover nothing, except it will > be tracking the quick arrival of cough (planet x).

NASA - WISE Launch Moves to Monday, Dec. 14

2009-12-11 Thread Casey Dougall
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/main/index.html The WISE spacecraft will circle Earth over the poles, scanning the entire sky one-and-a-half times in nine months. The mission will uncover hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. So