Tag: star trek
star wars vs star trek…again
by Greg on May.18, 2009, under Science Life
one more star trek post
by Greg on May.14, 2009, under Science Life
starts with a bang: warp drive
by Greg on May.08, 2009, under Science Life
star trek and baseball
by Greg on Apr.20, 2009, under Science Life
the TNG atheist family guy episode
by Greg on Mar.30, 2009, under Science Life
Today in Science History March 26th
by Greg on Mar.26, 2009, under Science Life History
In 1859, Lescarbault, a French medical doctor and amateur astronomer reported sighting a new planet in an orbit inside that of Mercury which he named Vulcan. He had seen a round black spot on the Sun with a transit time across the solar disk 4 hours 30 minutes. He sent this information and his calculations on the planet’s movements to Jean LeVerrier, France’s most famous astronomer. Le Verrier had already noticed that Mercury had deviated from its orbit. A gravitational pull from Vulcan would fit in nicely with what he was looking for. However, it was not consistently seen again and it is now believed to have been a “rogue asteroid” making a one-time pass close to the sun.

