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Astrostatistics for Fun and Profit
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 23, 2013 A couple of astrostatistics related announcements: 1) The Astrostatistics & Astroinformatics Portal is open. “The ASAIP provides searchable abstracts to Recent Papers in the field, several discussion Forums, various resources for researchers, brief Articles by experts, and lists of Meetings. The site will be used for public outreach by four organizations: International Astrostatistics Association (IAA,…
Impacts
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 16, 2013 Earth Impact Calculator Ok, that was close, and I don’t mean the zip by of li’l old 2012 DA14 this evening. The Chelyabinsk meteor looks to have been on the high end of the range of quick and dirty estimates, with impact energy of maybe 300 kTon equivalent. This is a size impact we’d expect…
Bolide low altitude break up over Russia
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 15, 2013 A bolide hit the Earth over Russia, breaking up at low altitude, causing a strong shock that reached the ground causing damage. There are reports of some fragments hitting the ground. Good summary and videos at The Age video from Russia Today the fragments will be valuable and probably show up soon on ebay there…
Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 13, 2013 The shadow of a shadow of a planet… and other fun Kepler discoveries Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era is a conference currently under way at the Aspen Center for Physics The meeting is very vibrant, with a mostly very young crowd of active researchers. There have been a number of very interesting…
id these sf stories…
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 6, 2013 Ok – I’m crowdsourcing the internet, because the google has failed: there are two science fiction short stories that I need titles and authors for, source in anthology or collection would be better still. 1) humans in slower-than-light spaceship set out to colonize planet identified around nearby star. When they finally get there, they find…
A Haiku for Science
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on January 27, 2013 Our future foretell Galaxies of stellar poems From space science spring Inspired by Jason Wright’s Thesis, Lucianne Walkowicz called out Astronomers on facebook to describe their current research as Haiku To the Occasion All Astronomers Sprung Forth Poetic Research There is a collection of some of the contributions at Rhymes Like Science Where my feeble…
JW$T – tensions bubble up at #AAS221
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on January 10, 2013 The James Webb Space Telescope is large, overbudget and in a category of its own. Literally. And now stirring over some controversy as the reality of science funding starts smacking scientists in the face. Last year, as I’m, sure you remember, the JWST funding line was take out of the Astrophysics Division and segregated in…
Hot Stars Reveal the Secret of Aging Well
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on January 7, 2013 On the Blues and the Lifestyles and Fates of the Hottest Stars as they Cluster in the Heavens: or, why aging gracefully depends on your lifestyle and environment… The Stellar Dynamical Clock – is a Nature paper that came out in the Christmas double issue, always my favourite and very good value, might I add.…
#AAS221
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on January 7, 2013 It was at the gathering, and all the astronomers were there, drinking coffee among the posters, hearing the NSF in despair… I am at my almost regular pilgrimage to the Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, where I hope to do some semi-liveblogging of developments and science news in my copious spare time. I…
Linkedy Links X
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on December 20, 2012 More Phenomenal random links to random stuff: life, the Universe and Everything Phenomena – new blog group under National Geographic, including some long time scibloggers: The Loom, Not Exactly Rocket Science, Laelaps and Only Human, to begin with. On the Usefulness of Useless Knowledge – Bee explains. Substantive Advice to Admissions Committees – Or, why,…