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SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 21 It is not uncommon that someone you are waiting for is 15 minutes late — even if, as in the c ...

22 August 2014 sky & telescope Death-defying Comet Catch Unlike previous cometary missions, which were all relatively brief ...

instrument studies diff erent clues so that scientists can put together the whole picture. The instrument I work with is Alice, ...

MUPUS 60 square meters of Juno’s solar panels. Yet Rosetta’s orbit took it so far away from the Sun (out to the orbit of Jupiter ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 25 the comet to do detailed mapping, select a landing site, and deploy Philae safely. The activi ...

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28 August 2014 sky & telescope History of Astronomy the centennial of the outbreak of World War I. At the time, astronomers ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 29 It seemed that oblique impacts ought to form elongated craters, whereas almost all the lunar ...

30 August 2014 sky & telescope History of Astronomy ematical ability, a scholarship to St. John’s College, Cam- bridge. In t ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 31 came to believe that the solar system itself was the prod- uct of a dark star’s encounter wit ...

32 August 2014 sky & telescope History of Astronomy American physicist Herbert Eugene Ives concluded, after studying craters ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 33 a surface with a velocity of many miles per second it becomes an explosive compared with whos ...

34 August 2014 sky & telescope Te l e s c o p e Astronomy for Children memories is of watching a lunar eclipse with my fathe ...

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36 August 2014 sky & telescope Astronomy for Children a glimpse through the eyepiece even when they are not lined up exactly ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 37 Tip #4: Don’t worry about both eyes being open. Young children may not yet have the ability t ...

38 August 2014 sky & telescope Telescope Maintenance has just pulled away leav- ing you with a big cardboard box containing ...

SkyandTelescope.com August 2014 39 To Clean or Not To Clean When you’re taking care of telescope optics, it pays to follow the m ...

40 August 2014 sky & telescope Telescope Maintenance primary-mirror cell from the tube, and then a few more screws to remove ...