It's almost the start of classes for the fall semester here! Toss in some strange funding deadlines and public data that needs to be analyzed sooner rather than later (so as to avoid getting scooped), and things are a bit crazy. (Not like they are ever boring...) But here's a neat thing that popped up in my Google Reader:
An 18 Billion Mile Journey is Almost Complete!
Next July, the planet Neptune will make its way back to the point in its orbit where it was originally discovered by Johann Galle and his assistant (probably a grad student, ha!), located within one degree of the position predicted by Urbain Le Verrier. Cool!
Neat!
ReplyDeleteI liked the "getting scooped" post too! It is very true... :)