Somewhere in the outer rings of Saturn is a tiny new moon we didn't know about.
The moon was spotted earlier this month orbiting in the center of the Keeler gap, making waves in the gap edges as it circles. Tentatively called S/2005 S1, the moon easures four miles across and is about 85,000 miles from the center of Saturn. More observations are needed to determine the shape of the moon's orbit, but preliminary indings show it is in the middle of the gap, said Joseph Spitale, a planetary scientist at he Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
If a moon orbits a planet but no craft is there to observe it, is it really there?
News From Yankee Land...
Not only did Kevin Brown pitch okay, Randy Johnson did okay as well as Chien-Ming 'Tiger' Wang. Wang, who was called up from the minors last week got through 7.1 frames giving up 3 runs, lowering his ERA to 4.43. He's pretty close to league average and if the Yankees can score 7 runs any which way, then they're in it with a good chance to win the game - like today. Thanks to Tom Gordon, coughing up a run, there was a save opportunity for Mo, which is great for my fantasy team, but that's about it. Still, 4 wins in a row is a bit overdue; maybe they'll even sweep the Mariners. *Gasp*, should we hope?
Tino Martinez continues to pound the ball, Matsui keeps making outs, and Giambi might go to the minors to rehab his swing. The Yankees are now at 15-19, which is still deep in the forest of nowhere, but tomorrow they get a start from Carl Pavano, and then it's back to Moose, so maybe we're seeing the resurgence of the Yankees Pitching staff. Then again, Kevin Wallbanger-Brown is never too far away from one of his blow-up-melt-down jobs, so who knows.
Snap Shot through the Ages
Thanks to the newfangled CT scan technologies in forensics, we now have a pretty good picture of what King Tutankhamun looked like.
The beardless youth depicted in the model, created by a French team, has soft features, a sloping nose and a weak chin — and the overbite, which archaeologists have long believed was a trait shared by other kings in Tut's 18th dynasty. His eyes are highlighted by thick eyeliner.
Three teams of forensic artists and scientists — from France, the United States and Egypt — each built a model of the boy pharaoh's face based on some 1,700 high resolution photos from CT scans of his mummy to reveal what he looked like the day he died nearly 3,300 years ago.
"The shape of the face and skull are remarkably similar to a famous image of Tutankhamun as a child where he was shown as the sun god at dawn rising from a lotus blossom," said Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The CT scans — the first done on an Egyptian mummy — have suggested King Tut was a healthy, yet slightly built 19-year-old, standing 5 feet, 6 inches tall at the time of his death.
He looked nothing like the demented fatso in the old Batman TV series.
Remarkably ordinary kind of face you might see everywhere. In fact I think I saw a King Tut-Type just the other day selling groceries. :)
- Art Neuro
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