Curious Dale

Ceres!  We’re going to Ceres!  NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is enroute and should arrive in February 2015.  Considering we’ve known about it for over 2 centuries and it 3 times closer than Saturn and 10 times closer than Neptune and their moons, I’ve always been very surprised to see the fuzzy images we have of it.

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I was busy reading an article on Star Stryder about the current economic trends in education. It’s an astronomy blog by Pamela Gay. I got half way through and decided to got to bed and finish it in the morning. When I can back to my trusty 20-foetsak mac mini the next [...]

I Love Afrikaans!
I went-a-walking in Table Mountain Reserve a week ago, above the Constantia Valley and came across this gem!
For those who don’t know Afrikaans “Aambeibossie” translates to “haemorrhoid bush” but in the image it gives the English name as “Christmas Berry”!  That’s comedy!