Out of Ambit
Astronomy
They lost the WHAT??
– was my response when I woke up this morning to hear our old buddy David Moore from Astronomy Ireland on RTÉ’s morning news show, talking about a story that the tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing had been mislaid. Needless to say, the story’s all over Google News at the moment, in many [...]
Today’s silly British newspaper typo
The Independent has turned Comet Swift-Tuttle into Comet Swift-Turtle. Twice. (Not only a typo, but an oxymoron…! Nice going, guys and gals.) Oh well. Hope it clears up a little so that we can see the Perseids… [tags]astronomy, science, Perseid, meteor shower[/tags]
Just gorgeous
New from Saturn orbit, courtesy of Cassini. (And Sky & Telescope.) [tags]Cassini, Saturn, Titan, Epimetheus[/tags]
Stardust
…of a kind. Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is falling apart (as it has been since ’95, when its nucleus split in four). Check out this one-minute video, an animation created from Hubble Space Telescope stills, as the comet sheds some more of its interior on its inward swing toward the sun. (Its period is about five [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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