Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog: 2007

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Friday, May 14, 2010

"Hey dad, guess what?"

"Chicken Butt?"

No Jacob's 6 years old today!

Left to Right:

Top: Birth, 5/14/2004 - 1YO 2005, 2YO 2006, 3YO 2007

Bottom: 4YO 2008, 5YO 2009, 6YO 2010, Birth, 5/14/2004

4 years old today.

Here is the mash up, birth to recent and all birthdays in between.

When I 1st saw this I was thinking wow, what a huge comet, I don't remember hearing about this. I grabbed my binoculars from inside and saw it had moved relative to the stars FAST! Then I wasn't sure what it was. Of course I grabbed the camera and tripod. The result is here. I'm not sure why I didn't post it a year and a half ago?!

Animation of the fuel drifting in the upper atmosphere, note how it moves relative to the stars.

http://maphilli14.webs.com/Astronomy/Phenomena/RocketFuelDump-20071212/1.html

More detail here:

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2042248/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/all/vc/1

and here:

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2042270/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/all/vc/1

and if anyone has the news release please share!