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''I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven''
- Thomas Jefferson
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- "Old Sol"
Richard Straigland hosted a LIVE event for the Solar Eclipse
Fred Espenak - God of EclipsesWhat are YOU doing on August 11, 1999?
Check out Eclipse 1999 Central at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pharrington/sw13.htm
Sharon Curtis has an excellent page on
Sun, Moon Rise and
Set
Compliments of Astronomical Applications Department at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Lunar Occultation Highlights of 1999 by IOTA
Lunar Prospector Mission home page.
Clementine Mission home page.
An in-depth look at the science and history of this and other lunar projects, and data from them, can be found at: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_25th.html
More on "La Luna"
The Planets
Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton
The Solar System Visualization Project from JPL has developed new visualization/animation techniques, algorithms, and technologies for planetary science applications including earth-crossing asteroids.
Jupiter Moon Events for 1998
Galileo's ongoing mission to Jupiter. 
Anatomy
of a Torn Comet
Image from Galileo Mission of the moon Ganymede
The
latest images from the mission Cassini's on its way to Saturn.
A special Countdown to Europa home page is now
available on the Galileo Home Page:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/countdown/
NEAR the Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous.
NASA's Discovery Program of small, cheap spacecraft, have set the pace of the future of unmanned interplanetary spacecraft.
Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, the parent of the Leonid meteor stream, was visible in the northern circumpolar sky for midnorthern latitudes in January, 1998. We anticipate a "meteor storm" this November 17-18, as the comet has left behind fresh dust in the inner solar system.
| Asteroids! | NASA - HQ | January, 1998 |
Forget about buying a "piece of Mars"! There may already be a feature on a Solar System object which has your name on it!
Search the
Gazetteer
Of Planetary Nomenclature
They did after all, name a crater on the Moon
"Hell"! 
Mars
Map / Planetary Maps
/ Moon
Maps / Earth
T h e G a l a x y (and extra-solar stuff)
Variable Stars
Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics is now on-line. Published by Cambridge University Press, this handbook has become an essential reference for space astronomy and astrophysics. The complete 2nd edition (Copyright Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1990) is now available on your desktop.
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