Ceres

Ice-mirror? Or maybe just a frost-field?

Evidently Arthur C. Clarke was wrong and the monoliths are white. That or a careless UFO driver has been caught out in the open.

The full article is at:

My money would be on it being a frost deposit of some sort. The probe is still closing in so we can expect better pictures to follow.

What is clear is that these minor planets are potentially more geologically interesting than was first thought.

Death Star powering up to blast the probe.

George H.

Disneyland Ceres.

Here's the official site:

Maybe the US Navy should start resurrecting the USS Missouri

Or maybe ice of some sort.

The sun angle looks low; the bright spots are practically inside the crater shadow. Should be interesting.

xkcd.com/1476/

Bye Jack

It was the first new body discovered after the 7 known planets of ancient times.

The Apollo booster upper stages did not return to earth. Nobody kept track of where they went.

You can't be Ceres-ous!

The 7th planet (Uranus) was discovered in the 18th century.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Stuck in Plano after an ice storm that we wouldn't even notice in NY--there's only one sander truck in the entire great state of Texas)

1. Your comment about sander trucks is false, probably due to your lack of knowledge.
2. Since you wouldn't notice the ice storm, get your ass out there and get yourself gone from Plano. We will appreciate that, considering your disrespect for not only Texas, but Plano as well. You expect to be catered to everywhere you go? You deserve no respect.

Looks like one of those mall-centric places where people get stuck in traff ic jams going to work, shopping at the mall, then going home to their tract home to "exist" for the remainder of the day. This cycle repeats day in an d day out, day in and day out, day in and day out...

Obviously, you also have no idea of the living conditions here. By "looks like", do you mean you live here? If so, you are invited to leave as well.

Where do you live, Fred? Is it nice? Is every day a new adventure?

That little bit of ice getting you down, John?

It's sort of cute the way everybody south of about Kansas gets all in a flutter about a bit of ice, as though winter were a novelty. In the Northeast they just plough, salt, and sand the daylights out of it and life goes on pretty well normally. Atlanta has one of the busiest airports in the world, and they get shut down probably 2 days per year for what (by NE USA standards) is a tiny bit of snow. The cost of that is *astronomical*.

It seems as though nobody has done the math as to what losing a day or two's worth of everybody's work per year actually costs. A few thousand sander trucks would be *cheap* by comparison. (Maybe they're worried that their drivers wouldn't get enough practice, so they'd be a bit of a menace to navigation.)

Hope you feel better soon!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

The place is a wasteland and tenement disguised as some kind of progress, it's thoroughly revolting.

Yes, but that's normal down here where we don't normally have worry about salt degrading our cars and other things. Winter is not a novelty, but ice and snow are, thank goodness.

Yes, and even though you have all that equipment, salt, and personnel to deal with it, you still have the penalty of the *astronomical* costs.

I think maybe they have. That's why, given our climate, it is not prudent to provide salt, sand and plows just for your unwelcome visit.

I feel file. It is you who is bitchy about our weather. Go home soon.

affic jams going to work, shopping at the mall, then going home to their tr act home to "exist" for the remainder of the day. This cycle repeats day in and day out, day in and day out, day in and day out...

Looks like the Russians know how to make winter driving an adventure: