Favorite Planet

aginor wrote: Dean wrote: aginor wrote:   I voted for Mercury couse it is the bravest planet of them all, so close to the sun and scolded by its heat, yet by night is the 4th coldest planet in the Solar system. I've recently been working on testing an ADC for a scintillometer that's going to be on the BepiColombo Mercury mission in the near future. (My part in this is really tiny and inconsequential, I just wrote some test software ).   is it possible witha man lead mission to Mercury if you stay on its,s dark side  all the time or is that just to difficult, how fast do Mercury spin around it self to be safe for not having to suffer 400++ C, or is the travvel to get their a torture not  worth pursuing

Isn't a Mecurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mecurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.

Dean wrote: aginor wrote: Dean wrote:   aginor wrote:   I voted for Mercury couse it is the bravest planet of them all, so close to the sun and scolded by its heat, yet by night is the 4th coldest planet in the Solar system.     I've recently been working on testing an ADC for a scintillometer that's going to be on the BepiColombo Mercury mission in the near future. (My part in this is really tiny and inconsequential, I just wrote some test software ).    is it possible witha man lead mission to Mercury if you stay on its,s dark side  all the time or is that just to difficult, how fast do Mercury spin around it self to be safe for not having to suffer 400++ C, or is the travvel to get their a torture not  worth pursuing     Isn't a Mecurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mecurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.

 

Edited by someone_else - September 06 2011 at 08:46

Tellus isn't Earth's real name btw - it's just the Latin name for Earth - since every language has its own name for this planet all can be said to be the "real name". However, honour should be given to nationality the first person that recognised Earth as a planet, and I don't think that Copperknickers was a Roman  

Dean wrote: Tellus isn't Earth's real name btw - it's just the Latin name for Earth - since every language has its own name for this planet all can be said to be the "real name". However, honour should be given to nationality the first person that recognised Earth as a planet, and I don't think that Copperknickers was a Roman

he was a Polish i think (or danish ),
i kay from now i will call it Erde

The following Prog artists have Minor Planets (well, big asteroids maybe) named after them:

Edited by Dean - September 30 2011 at 06:30

^ yup a silly typo, I know full well that all the Beatles had double letters in their surnames.

I like Neptune and I've done multiple presentations about it in high school. I've always been attracted to water, ice, winter, and the color blue, and Neptune reminds me of all of those things. Not to mention that Poseidon is one of the coolest of gods of Greek mythology.

Saturn for me.

Venus is global warming on steroids. So Venus

I am a Sagittarius, and Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, so I will go with that