Re: 2007 astronomy news highlights

"Tom Van Flandern" <tomvf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:3oKdnbP1SoekmSfanZ2dnUVZ_rKtnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

The 2007 December 15 issue of the Meta Research Bulletin is available
for reading in HTML and PDF formats:
http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/bulletin.asp

This issue contains three featured articles:
. Book Review: "The Virtue of Heresy"
. Predictions for the Mercury Messenger Mission
. The Great Comet Holmes Outburst of 2007 (an explanation that works
well for all comet outbursts)

Our regular feature, "Meta Science in the News", contains a round-up
of astronomy news stories in 2007 and how the mainstream and Meta
Science expectations fared in connection with each story:
o Moon Origin: Earth's Moon is a cosmic rarity
o Did the Moon form from Earth?
o H-fusion may not be the main heat source inside stars
o Possible asteroid impact on Mars could produce major dust storm
o Claims of Martian bacterial life
o Dino-killing asteroid traced to cosmic collision
o 'Body C' gets a name
o Discovery of first NEO-producing meteorites
o Astronomers baffled by basalt in the outer asteroid belt
o Evidence for the origin of Ceres as a moon of 'Planet K'
o A belt of moonlets in Saturn's A ring
o Evidence for two populations of classical trans-Neptunian objects:
The strong inclination dependence of classical binaries
o Formation mechanisms for Kuiper Belt Binaries
o The Pioneer Anomaly: non-existent in outer solar system
o Giant void casts doubt on current models of the universe
o Dark Matter Mystery Deepens in Cosmic 'Train Wreck'
o Galactic Halo: Two stellar components in the halo of the Milky Way
o The Edge at the Edge of the Universe
o Reports from the Alternative Cosmology Group newsletter
o NGC4319 & Markarian 205: connected by a luminous bridge?
o Universal 'axis of evil' starting to look real
o Do high-energy gamma rays travel slower than low-energy rays?
o NeWiki: A new science supplement to Wikipedia

Tom Van Flandern - Sequim, WA - see our web site on frontier astronomy
research at http://metaresearch.org

It would be really nice if you would put links near these news stories,
because many of them look like things I would like to read.
.

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