--- title: 'Carnival of Space: October 2, 2008' url: 'https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/carnival-of-space-october-2-2008' markdown: 'https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/carnival-of-space-october-2-2008.md' date: '2008-10-02' description: 'In celebration of NASA’s 50th Anniversary, this week’s Carnival of Space is in the form of an acrostic. H – Hills and what they have to do with moons are discussed by the Bad Astronomer over at Bad Astronomy A – All’s quiet on the solar front, should we be worried? Alan Dyer of What’s Up Astronomy …' taxonomy: category: - "Alice's Commentary" - 'AstroInfo Article' - Relinking tag: - 'Carnival of Space' --- # [Carnival of Space: October 2, 2008](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/carnival-of-space-october-2-2008) 2nd Oct 2008 [Carnival of Space](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/tag:Carnival%20of%20Space#body-wrapper) In celebration of NASA’s 50th Anniversary, this week’s Carnival of Space is in the form of an acrostic. **H –** [Hills and what they have to do with moons](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/29/the-moon-that-went-up-a-hill-but-came-down-a-planet/) are discussed by the Bad Astronomer over at [Bad Astronomy](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/) **A –** All’s quiet on the solar front, [should we be worried?](http://blogs.discovery.com/whats_up_astronomy/2008/09/is-the-sun-too.html) Alan Dyer of [What’s Up Astronomy](http://blogs.discovery.com/whats_up_astronomy/) says “Nope.” **P –** Posted by [Space Video of the Day](http://spacevideooftheday.blogspot.com/): [the Falcon of SpaceX achieves orbit](http://spacevideooftheday.blogspot.com/2008/09/space-video-of-day-080930.html)! **P –** Poor Galileo – [his saga is like a Mexican Soap Opera](http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/09/28/celebrating-the-telescope-and-mexican-soap-operas/), or so claims Dr. Bruce Cordell of [21st Century Waves](http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/). **Y –** [Yummy planetary science](http://scienceblogs.com/greengabbro/2008/09/what_planet_is_my_clafoutis_fr.php) from Maria Brumm and [Green Gabbro](http://scienceblogs.com/greengabbro/). **B –** Back in 1989 a program called [Lunar Oasis](http://altairvi.blogspot.com/2008/09/lunar-oasis-1989.html) was proposed, and David Portree examines it over at [Altair VI](http://altairvi.blogspot.com/). **I –** Interstellar flight in a long-term context. Paul Gilster [analyzes the survival of civilization and expansion into the cosmos](http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=3439) over at [Centauri Dreams](http://www.centauri-dreams.org/). **R –** Research [the history of the NASA meatball and worm](http://astroprofspage.com/archives/1769) with [Astroprof](http://astroprofspage.com/) this week, in celebration of NASA’s 50th Birthday! **T –** [Trouble comes to Hubble](http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2008/09/hubble_trouble.php), and Steinn Sigurðsson of [Dynamics of Cats](http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/) takes a look at what the problem is. **H –** Huge telescopes [held in place by magnetic flux pinning](http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/09/space-flux-telescope-without-upper-size.html) and other giant mirrors are approached by [Next Big Future](http://nextbigfuture.com/). **D –** (the) [Death of a Martian moonlet](http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/the-footprints-of-a-moonlets-demise/) is exposed by Ryan Anderson Briony of [Martian Chronicles](http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/). **A –** Approaching martian winter, Ray Villard of [CosmicRAY](http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/) talks about [Phoenix’s limited future](http://blogs.discovery.com/cosmic_ray/2008/10/facing-death-in.html) and extensive past discoveries **Y –** You know analogies always help, so Wayne of [Idea Festival](http://ideafestival.typepad.com/) reviews J. Richard Gott’s discussion of the Space Colonization Imperative, and [how it’s similar to basketball and the Titanic](http://ideafestival.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/making-a-basket.html). **T –** To NASA! [50 years of exploration and collectibles](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100108a.html), discussed by none other than [collectSPACE](http://www.collectspace.com/). **O –** [On counting stars and cells](http://startswithabang.com/?p=952) – Ethan Siegel of [Starts With A Bang](http://startswithabang.com/) wonders which is bigger, the number of stars in a galaxy, or the number of cells in the human body **Y –** Yikes! [Watch out for unruly astrophysicists wielding calculations](http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-astrophysicists-spoil-cosmochemical.html) over at the [Lounge of the Lab Lemming](http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com) (by Dr. Lemming) **O –** Oh my, iPhone apps galore – including an awesome [Starmap & Planetarium app reviewed](http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com/2008/09/starmap.html) by Flying Singer in [Music of the Spheres](http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com). **U –** Universal Babe (I mean, [A Babe in the Universe](http://riofriospacetime.blogspot.com/)!) [discusses Hubble’s difficulties this past week](http://riofriospacetime.blogspot.com/2008/09/hubble-trouble.html). **D –** Decelrating oddly, [the Pioneer spacecraft are veering off course](http://blogs.discovery.com/twisted_physics/2008/10/oh-pioneer.html). [Twisted Physics](http://blogs.discovery.com/twisted_physics/)’ Jennifer Ouellette looks at why. **E –** [ESA’s new Planck spacecraft](http://orbitalhub.com/?p=151)‘s plant (oops, typo) plans to look at the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is discussed in detail by dj at [OrbitalHub](http://orbitalhub.com/). **A –** [Accretionary Wedge](http://www.goodschist.com/2008/09/28/the-accretionary-wedge-13-geology-in-space/), the carnival from the Geoblogosphere was hosted this past week. Check out [GoodSchist](http://www.goodschist.com/)’s artwork about Geology in Spaaaaace. **R-** Research meets poetry with “[Endeavour Calls](http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/TheVerse/entries/2008/10/02/endeavour-calls.../826)” by Stuart Atkinson of [The ‘Verse](http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/TheVerse/). **N –** Nuclear decay rates, [are they related to the distance to the Sun](http://www.astroengine.com/?p=1382)? Ian O’Neill of [astroENGINE](http://www.astroengine.com/) tackles this question, by looking at the Cassini mission. **A –** “[Action on Asteroids!](http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/30/1467917.aspx)” says Alan Boyle in [Cosmic Log](http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/). **S –** Shubber Ali of [Space Cynic](http://spacecynic.wordpress.com/) [is interviewed on The Space Show](http://spacecynic.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/shubber-ali-on-the-space-show/). **A –** [Anniversaries (specifically NASA’s) are celebrated](http://potentiatenebrasrepellendi.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-golden-anniversary-nasa.html) over at [*Potentia Tenebras Repellendi*](http://potentiatenebrasrepellendi.blogspot.com/) by Alexander Declama **! –** !! I wish I had an “M” for Emily Lakdawalla’s [Monday Mercury MESSENGER Madness](http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001670/) in the [Planetary Society Weblog](http://www.planetary.org/blog/)!! That’s it for this week! Tune in somewhere else to next week’s Carnival for more – or go to [Universe Today’s Carnival of Space](http://www.universetoday.com/carnival-of-space/) page to learn what it’s all about. Thanks for your entries, and thanks for your help, Fraser! --- ## Navigation - Previous: [Carnival of Space & Link](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/carnival-of-space-link.md) - Next: [Carnivals #121-123](https://grav.alicesastroinfo.com/blog/carnivals-121-123.md)