c14 is a baby ambit (Part I: arduous animal force)

!9# c14 is a baby ambit (Part I: arduous animal force)

sequel: www.youtube.com Part I of a II part series: make sure you watch the sequel (C14 is a small scope Part II: The smart easy way for girly men)! The C14 (Celestron 14" SCT) is a small portable telescope suitable for amateur astronomy. This video shows how to load a C14 on small portable mounts such as the Astro-Physics AP900QMD and the Losmandy G11. The newer version of the C14, the EdgeHD 14", would mount very similarly. Don't be a girly-man. The C14 will meet your requirements for portability and aperture. People who say the C14 is too big or heavy should consider that in this short film (take 8) the C14 is loaded on to its mount three times in six minutes. Thanks Margaret for the camera work!

c14 is a baby ambit (Part I: arduous animal force)

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The Earth Begins - A Glimpse of How the Earth Was Made

!9# The Earth Begins - A Glimpse of How the Earth Was Made

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Astronomy is the oldest science known to man and every time we think about astronomy we think about stars and other galaxies far, far away. Now don't get me wrong, astronomy is the science that studies how the universe works, but you can also learn a lot about other worldly phenomena by understanding how our own planet works and how it was formed.

Planet earth as far as we know is truly unique and special, is the only planet in the universe that we know that is capable of hosting intelligent life and that by itself is a miracle. The earth is not only capable of sustaining life, but also provides enough resources that allow a great variety of life forms to develop and co-exist. It also gives the opportunity to all kinds of organism to flourish; from microscopic entities to complex structured beings such as ourselves. So how exactly and when the earth began? By analyzing the radioactive decay of the most ancient rocks on the planet by a carbon 14 test it can be determine the age of the rocks and how long ago they were formed and hence the age of the earth itself. Carbon 14 tests made on ancient volcanic rocks all around the world dictates that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, which is very close to the age of our solar system.

A possible theory that is supported by experts on this matter is that when our sun was forming huge amounts of rocks, gases and iced particles floating around the sun's gravitational field, combined over thousands or even millions of years to form what we now know as the planets of our solar system. These cosmic elements combined like ingredients on a hot stew over millions of years by colliding into each other. Each collision made the chuck of rock gas and icy body bigger and bigger, giving it form, increasing the thermal activity of the body and attracting other chunks of rock that came near it by the gravitational force. This process continued on making the once relatively small chunk of rock gas and ice that didn't have any definite form big enough to actually take a round shape by the force of gravity, and so the blue print for our planet was traced. Just because a celestial body is large enough to be called a planet does not mean in any way that it has the necessary ingredients to sustain life.

 For the first billion to billion and a half years the earth was just a molten sphere with raging and violent volcanic eruptions that came deep within the center of the earth. Our earth's center is formed by two types of cores; one is the inner core, a solid sphere made of iron and other elements and the external core which is made out of molten iron and rock. We owe our planet's atmosphere to the constant thermal and dynamical activities of the earth's core. It is believed that the heat that forms from the core is the product of the collisions the earth received when it was formed. The constant geothermal activity from our planet's past till present is the product of radioactive materials decomposing over time still taking place at the earth's center which fuels the earth itself. Scientist all over the world agree that in order to find live on a planet that is similar to ours we must follow the water. One of the theories scientists believe was the reason we have water on earth, is due to the constant bombardment over hundreds of millions of years of frozen asteroids that melted once they entered the atmosphere when the earth was forming.

So now we know what elements need to be present in order to form a planet that applies not just to ours but to other planets on the cosmos. Always keeping an open mind that one day we might find one besides ours.

The Earth Begins - A Glimpse of How the Earth Was Made

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Makemake the Dwarf Planet

!9# Makemake the Dwarf Planet

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Makemake, possibly pronounced as Makimaki or as Mah-Kay Mah-Kay, was discovered in March 2005 at Palomar Observatory by a team led by Mike Brown. Since this was close to Easter, the object was named after a God associated with Easter Island.

Makemake is about three quarters the size of Pluto, making it the third largest dwarf planet so far discovered. Like Pluto, its orbit is beyond that of Neptune, so it is classed as a Plutoid or trans-Neptunian object. It can also be described as a Kuiper Belt Object.

Orbit

As is typical of the dwarf planets so far discovered, the orbit of Makemake is further from plane of the ecliptic than any of the planets, being inclined by about 29 degrees. It takes about 310 Earth years to complete one of its orbits round the Sun. This compares with Pluto which takes about 249 Earth years. At its furthest from the Sun Makemake is about 53 Astronomical Units, AI, (An Astronomical Unit is the distance of the Earth from the Sun), and at its closest about 39 AI.

Composition

Makemake appears to be made mainly of ice and rock, although at its temperature, ice effectively is a type of rock. As it says in the Christmas carol "In the Bleak Mid Winter": "Earth stood as hard as iron, water like a stone".

Temperature and Atmosphere

The temperature at the moment on Makemake is probable about minus 240 degrees C (minus 400 degrees F). The atmosphere probably has Methane, Ethane and Nitrogen all frozen so the surface appears bright. When this dwarf planet is closest to the Sun, some of the atmosphere may turn back into gas.

Moon

So far no moon has been discovered orbiting Makemake. But we do not yet know a lot about this object. For example we don't even know how fast it rotates or even if it does. Naturally, we also cannot know the inclination of its axis of rotation.

Life
Of course something as cold as Makemake could not have life on it; except that we only know about the types of life on Earth. We do not even know for sure that life even exists outside our own planet, so it is difficult to be absolutely certain that such apparently inhospitable places as Makemake really have no life. Note that even if surface life does not exist there, it is very difficult to rule out the possibility of underground life.

Intelligent life on Makemake

Makemake the Dwarf Planet

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