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Electric Earthquakes 電気的地震 by Wal Thornhill

Electric Earthquakes 電気的地震 by Wal Thornhill | December 21, 2005 3:56 am 〈Civilization’s interest in predicting the location and time of damaging earthquakes is clear. The potential for devastation of property that otherwise could be …

Voyager 1 at the Edge – of what? ボイジャー 1 号の最果て – 何の? by Wal Thornhill

Voyager 1 at the Edge – of what?ボイジャー 1 号の最果て – 何の? by Wal Thornhill | November 13, 2005 3:39 am “The observations that are not explainable by current scientific theories are the most valuable, for they may propel the field for…

Hyperion’s History ハイペリオンの歴史 by Wal Thornhill

Hyperion’s History ハイペリオンの歴史 by Wal Thornhill | October 7, 2005 3:27 am 〈On September 26th, Cassini successfully performed its closest flybys of Saturn’s moons Tethys and Hyperion. Hyperion (seen below in false color) is a strang…

Comet Tails of the Expected 予想される彗星の尾    Wal Thornhill

227* Comet Tails of the Expected 予想される彗星の尾 September 13th, 2005 Wal Thornhill EU Views Specific predictions were made almost four years ago on this website about the possible effects to be observed in the Deep Impact experimen…

Supernova 1987A Decoded 超新星 1987A を解読 by Wal Thornhill

Supernova 1987A Decoded 超新星 1987A を解読 by Wal Thornhill | August 24, 2005 5:37 pm Supernova 1987A is the closest supernova event since the invention of the telescope. 超新星 1987A は、望遠鏡の発明以来最も近い超新星現象です。 It was fi…

Comet Tempel 1’s Electrifying Impact  テンペル第 1 彗星の電撃的な衝突 by Wal Thornhill

Comet Tempel 1’s Electrifying Impact テンペル第 1 彗星の電撃的な衝突 by Wal Thornhill | July 13, 2005 9:39 pm 215* [1]This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft.…

The Deep Impact of Comet Theory 彗星理論のディープインパクト by Wal Thornhill

The Deep Impact of Comet Theory 彗星理論のディープインパクト by Wal Thornhill | July 3, 2005 9:16 pm (I hope my readers will forgive the absence of news items for the past few months while I took a break and gave some presentations in Euro…

The Dragon Storm ドラゴンストーム by Wal Thornhill

The Dragon Storm ドラゴンストーム by Wal Thornhill | March 26, 2005 10:53 am A news item headlined “The Dragon Storm” appeared on the Cassini mission website on February 24. 「ドラゴンの嵐」 という見出しのニュース記事が、2 月 24 日にカッシ…

Columbia downed by Megalightning  メガライトニングでコロンビアが撃墜される by Wal Thornhill

Columbia downed by Megalightning メガライトニングでコロンビアが撃墜される by Wal Thornhill | February 8, 2005 11:00 am The second anniversary of the Columbia disaster passed almost unnoticed on February 1. コロンビア号災害から 2 周年は、2 …

Saturn’s Strange Hot Spot Explained  土星の奇妙なホットスポットの説明 by Wal Thornhill

Saturn’s Strange Hot Spot Explained 土星の奇妙なホットスポットの説明 by Wal Thornhill | February 5, 2005 10:48 am 204* [Mosaic false-color image of thermal heat emission from Saturn and its rings taken on February 4, 2004, with the Ke…

Megalightning at Saturn  土星のメガライトニング by Wal Thornhill

Megalightning at Saturn 土星のメガライトニング by Wal Thornhill | December 25, 2004 9:17 am As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft approached Saturn last July it found evidence that lightning on Saturn is roughly one million times stronger than ligh…

Titan puzzles scientists タイタンは、難問で科学者を困らせる by Wal Thornhill

Titan puzzles scientists タイタンは、難問で科学者を困らせる by Wal Thornhill | November 29, 2004 8:36 am On October 26, NASA’s Cassini-Huygens spacecraft swung by Titan at a distance of less than 1200 kilometers, the first of many fly-bys …

Electrifying Saturn 電化する土星 by Wal Thornhill

Electrifying Saturn 電化する土星 by Wal Thornhill | August 8, 2004 4:57 pm From NASA and Phys Org.com comes the following report:NASA と 物理組織.comから次のレポートが提供されています: [Cassini detects Lightning and Radiation at Saturn a…

Comets Impact Cosmology  彗星は宇宙論に衝突する by Wal Thornhill

Comets Impact Cosmology 彗星は宇宙論に衝突する by Wal Thornhill | July 20, 2004 1:35 pm “Comets are important, they could be the key to the universe …maybe.”「彗星は重要です。宇宙への鍵になるかもしれません…もしかしたら。」– Burt Lancaster,…

Cassini’s Homecoming カッシーニの帰郷 by Wal Thornhill

Cassini’s Homecoming カッシーニの帰郷 by Wal Thornhill | June 19, 2004 8:22 am 177* Cassini closes in on the beautiful ringed planet — Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute カッシーニは、美しい環のある惑星―土星に接近します。…

Electric Weather  電気的天候 by Wal Thornhill

Electric Weather 電気的天候 by Wal Thornhill | May 30, 2004 8:10 am The following excerpts come from a report[1] that appeared in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) magazine, SPECTRUM, for April. 以下の抜粋は、電…

Electric Dust Devils  電気的ダストデビルズ by Wal Thornhill

Electric Dust Devils 電気的ダストデビルズ by Wal Thornhill | April 25, 2004 12:40 am ‘.. it may sometimes be that not to know one thing that is wrong could be more important than knowing a hundred things that are right.’– Halton Arp, Quasa…

An Open Letter to Closed Minds閉ざされた心への公開書簡 by Wal Thornhill

An Open Letter to Closed Minds閉ざされた心への公開書簡 by Wal Thornhill | April 12, 2004 12:18 am 166* Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal.サー・マーティン・リース、王室天文学者。 Everything astronomers can see, stretching out to dis…

Mystery of Mars’ Polar Spirals 火星の極渦巻の謎 by Wal Thornhill

Mystery of Mars’ Polar Spirals 火星の極渦巻の謎 by Wal Thornhill | March 30, 2004 11:30 pm ‘Before each revolution, all the pegs seemed square and all the holes round. In each case, it was not until it was realized that one had to discard …

The Shiny Mountains of Venus 金星の輝く山々 by Wal Thornhill

The Shiny Mountains of Venus 金星の輝く山々 by Wal Thornhill | December 16, 2003 2:07 pm The astronomer Victor A. Firsoff in his book, The Solar Planets (1977), wrote:天文学者のビクター・A・ファーソフは、著書『太陽惑星』(1977年)の中で次…

THE SUN — Our Variable Star 太陽 — 私たちの変光恒星 by Wal Thornhill

THE SUN — Our Variable Star 太陽 — 私たちの変光恒星 by Wal Thornhill | November 9, 2003 10:12 amThis article updated on 25 Nov 2003 “Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the growth in our understanding of the universe is that we understan…

Comets & Lightning Jets 彗星と雷ジェット by Wal Thornhill

Comets & Lightning Jets 彗星と雷ジェット by Wal Thornhill | October 19, 2003 8:35 am I recently picked up a second-hand book titled “The Big Splash” by Dr. Louis Frank of the University of Iowa. 私は最近、アイオワ大学のルイス・フランク博士…

Mysterious Mars  謎の火星 by Wal Thornhill

Mysterious Mars 謎の火星 by Wal Thornhill | August 27, 2003 7:43 am Today, 27 August, at 9.51 am GMT, Mars will be a mere 56 million kilometres from Earth, the closest it has been since 57,617 BC. 今日、8月27日午前9時51分(グリニッジ標準時…

Spiral Galaxies & Grand Canyons 渦巻銀河とグランドキャニオン by Wal Thornhill

Spiral Galaxies & Grand Canyons 渦巻銀河とグランドキャニオン by Wal Thornhill | August 18, 2003 11:33 pm The grandest canyon in the solar system is Valles Marineris on Mars. It stretches a third of the way around the planet. But what in he…

Puzzling Star Stuff 不可解な恒星の素材 by Wal Thornhill

Puzzling Star Stuff 不可解な恒星の素材 by Wal Thornhill | August 2, 2003 11:20 pm“Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are.” 「キラキラ光る、小さなお星様。 あなたは何者なのか不思議です。」 In a report for the New Scientist o…

Planet Birthing – more evidence  惑星の誕生 – さらなる証拠 by Wal Thornhill

Planet Birthing – more evidence 惑星の誕生 – さらなる証拠 by Wal Thornhill | July 24, 2003 9:57 pm 135* In my May news item[1] I wrote, “It is far simpler and infinitely more efficient if planets are “born” at intervals by the electric…

Squashed Star Flattens Solar Theory 押しつぶされた恒星は太陽理論を平らにする by Wal Thornhill

Squashed Star Flattens Solar Theory 押しつぶされた恒星は太陽理論を平らにする by Wal Thornhill | June 24, 2003 9:36 pm The following report appeared in New Scientist for 12 June 2003:次のレポートは、2003 年 6 月 12 日の New Scientist に掲載…

Planet Birthing 惑星の誕生 by Wal Thornhill

Planet Birthing惑星の誕生 by Wal Thornhill | May 25, 2003 4:41 pm Dan Falk prefaced a recent news report in Nature, on the subject of planet formation, with these words:ダン・フォークは、惑星形成をテーマとしたネイチャー誌の最近のニュースレ…

SETI – The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ・セティ – 地球外知性体の探索 by Wal Thornhill

SETI – The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ・セティ – 地球外知性体の探索 by Wal Thornhill | April 9, 2003 2:38 pm“Next we come to a question that everyone, scientist and non-scientist alike, must have asked at some time. What is m…

Sunspot Mysteries 黒点の謎 by Wal Thornhill

Sunspot Mysteries黒点の謎 by Wal Thornhill | November 30, 2002 1:02 am‘If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.’– Rene Descartes「真実を真に探求し…