A very remote place!

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: A very remote place!

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0403/15sedna/

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NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.

"The Sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin," said Dr. Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., associate professor of planetary astronomy and leader of the research team. The object, called "Sedna" for the Inuit goddess of the ocean, is 13 billion kilometers (8 billion miles) away, in the farthest reaches of the solar system.

This is likely the first detection of the long-hypothesized "Oort cloud," a faraway repository of small icy bodies that supplies the comets that streak by Earth. Other notable features of Sedna include its size and reddish color. After Mars, it is the second reddest object in the solar system. It is estimated Sedna is approximately three-fourths the size of Pluto. Sedna is likely the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930.

Brown, along with Drs. Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory, Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University, New Haven, Conn., found the planet-like object, or planetoid, on Nov. 14, 2003. The researchers used the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego. Within days, telescopes in Chile, Spain, Arizona and Hawaii observed the object. NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope also looked for it.

mosc · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

Such a discovery is inspirational. Here's a call to electro-musicians. Compose some music inspired by the discovery of Sedna. Post them here as attachments.

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

hey.. this is like just out of the book "Protector" by Larry Niven. Sedna is just the kind of place that a human protector would set up shop!

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

seraph · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:40 am Post subject:

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

The Low Fidelity Electro-Music Sedna All Stars Mystical Majickal Love Bungalo Album, in stores now

jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Hey, I live in a bungalo.

Thanks for posting that - I hadn't seen any news on that discovery yet.

seraph · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:34 am Post subject:

I'm working on a compilation CD document. There are many issues, legal, financial, and all that. Certainly any pieces we do for Sedna are possible for a CD release. Please be patient about the CD thing. Let's just make music first. Maybe this will be a good practice run.

I've got a review to do before I can start on my Sedna piece. Shocked

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

My piece is half done. It's going on my second disc as well. Entitled "This Lightstrewn Corridor."

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

Seems like we are about to launch our own space program?

Cool

seraph · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

Electronautix Cutaway: Mosc on the steering wheel
Shocked

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Where's the beef jerky stored? Can't go to Sedna without your beef jerky!

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:24 am Post subject:

The green lockers are all SPAM SPAM SPAM! In fact.. this is a SPAM-powered vehicle

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Perhaps that should be the motif for your contribition to the Sedna compilation. Spamming to Sedna can be the title, and it will be prophetic when the Jet Propulsion Labs discover that the key to practicle cold fusion has been Spam all along.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:59 am Post subject:

Well.. we are talking space propulsiuoin here.. so I guess we will not have to think about the ozone layer. I guess this vehicle might as well be powered by fermented beans.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Watch it turn out to be soy that holds the key to the stars.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:10 am Post subject:

I planned to do a piece about Sedna, but I ended up recording "Sinking of the Scharnhorst" instead.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Makes sense to me. Wink

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:25 am Post subject:

THX! I always trust the CYX

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Dont trust me. I could be writing this while riding around in a black army CIA helicopter.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:56 am Post subject:

Sure...