March 7,
2008
Here is
a great
link
http://geocoder.ca/
just
type in
any
address
for
Canada
or the
United
States
and it
will
give you
a
longitude
and
latitude.
This can
work
very
well if
you know
the
birth
hospital,
a search
for the
hospital
will
give an
address.
March 8,
2008
From
Wickipedia
Zodiacal
dust
forms
a
pancake
shaped
cloud
in
the
Solar
System
collectively
known
as
the
zodiacal
cloud.
It
occupies
the
same
plane
as
the
orbit
of
the
planets
from
which
it
derives
the
name
zodiac.
The
dust
particles,
are
between
1 to
300
micrometres
in
diameter.
They
originate
from
the
tails
of
comets
and
from
collisions
between
asteroids.
It
was
discovered
by
German
astronomer
Walter
Grotrian
in
1934.
March 9,
2008
From
Wickipedia
The
interplanetary
dust
cloud
has been
studied
for many
years in
order to
understand
its
nature,
origin,
and
relationship
to
planetary
systems
(our
own, as
well as
extrasolar
systems).
The
interplanetary
dust
particles
(IDPs)
not only
scatter
solar
light
(called
the "zodiacal
light",
which is
confined
to the
ecliptic
plane),
the IDPs
also
produce
thermal
emission,
which is
the most
prominent
feature
of the
night-sky
light in
the 5-50
micrometer
wavelength
domain (Levasseur-Regourd,
A.C.
1996).
The
grains
characterizing
the
infrared
emission
near the
earth's
orbit
have
typical
sizes of
10-100
micrometers
(Backman,
D.,
1997).
The
total
mass of
the
interplanetary
dust
cloud is
about
the mass
of an
asteroid
of
radius
15 km
(with
density
of about
2.5
g/cm3).
The
sources
of IDPs
include
at
least:
asteroid
collisions,
cometary
activity
and
collisions
in the
inner
solar
system,
Kuiper
Belt
collisions,
and
interstellar
medium
(ISM)
grains (Backman,
D.,
1997).
Indeed,
one of
the
longest-standing
controversies
debated
in the
interplanetary
dust
community
revolves
around
the
relative
contributions
to the
interplanetary
dust
cloud
from
asteroid
collisions
and
cometary
activity.
The main
physical
processes
"affecting"
(destruction
or
expulsion
mechanisms)
IDPs
are:
expulsion
by
radiation
pressure,
inward
Poynting-Robertson
(PR)
radiation
drag,
solar
wind
pressure
(with
significant
electromagnetic
effects),
sublimation,
mutual
collisions,
and the
dynamical
effects
of
planets
(Backman,
D.,
1997).
The
lifetimes
of these
dust
particles
are very
short
compared
to the
lifetime
of the
Solar
System.
If one
finds
grains
around a
star
that is
older
than
about
10^8
years,
then the
grains
must
have
been
from
recently
released
fragments
of
larger
objects,
i.e.
they
cannot
be
leftover
grains
from the
protoplanetary
disk
(Backman,
private
communication).
Therefore,
the
grains
would be
"later-generation"
dust.
The
zodiacal
dust in
the
solar
system
is 99.9%
later-generation
dust and
0.1%
intruding
ISM
dust.
All
primordial
grains
from the
Solar
System's
formation
were
removed
long
ago.
The
interplanetary
dust
cloud
has a
complex
structure
(Reach,
W.,
1997).
Apart
from a
background
density,
this
includes:
At least
8
dust
trails
-- their
source
is
thought
to be
short-period
comets.
A number
of dust
bands,
the
sources
of which
are
thought
to be
asteroid
families
in the
main
asteroid
belt.
The
three
strongest
bands
arise
from the
Themis
family,
the
Koronis
family,
and the
Eos
family.
Other
source
families
include
the
Maria,
Eunomia,
and
possibly
the
Vesta
and/or
Hygiea
families
(Reach
et al
1996).
At
least
2
resonant
dust
rings
are
known
(for
example,
the
Earth-resonant
dust
ring,
although
every
planet
in
the
solar
system
is
thought
to
have
a
resonant
ring
with
a
"wake")
(Jackson
and
Zook,
1988,
1992)
,(Dermott,
S.F.
et
al.,
1994,
1997)
March 10,
2008
It seems
that the
more I
read the
zodiacal
dust it
is
everywhere.
There
does not
seem to
be one
place
that
speaks
to all
the
places
the dust
is found
but it
appears
to be
throughout
the
universe.
I make
that
statement
based on
piecing
information
together.
In our
solar
system
the dust
is fine
collision
debris
from
asteroids
and
comets.
But in a
more
universal
sense
the dust
is fine
collision
debris
from
many
touching
objects.
Touching
as the
dust is
also
disbursed
and
collected
by solar
winds
and
other
forces.
As to
the dust
being an
evolutionary
part of
the
universe
that is
a bit of
an
extrapolation
on my
part
with the
simple
way I
think.
Namely
clouds
full of
dust
that
form
part of
the
magnasphere
of a
moving
body as
the dust
enters
and
becomes
part of
the land
mass of
a moving
body. On
earth we
easily
see
zodiacal
dust in
a visual
form as
zodiacal
light.
The fact
is that
solar
and
extra
solar
dust is
constantly
raining
on
earth.
One
report I
read
said 40
tons a
year
another
had much
larger
figures.
This
fits
nicely
with
earlier
posts of
mine
regarding
particles
crashing
as waves
on
earth’s
polar
regions.
This
quote
“planet
searches
should
be
directed
toward
older
stellar
systems
to avoid
high
dust
density.”
and
“since
exo-zodiacal
dust in
a
planetary
system
could
easily
outshine
the
planets
and make
them
much
harder
to
detect”
suggests
that the
dust is
found in
newer
stellar
systems.
This
quote “
Zodiacal
Cloud:
Comprehensive
understanding,
Observations
and
modeling
of our
zodiacal
cloud
and of
circumstellar
dust
systems
should
result
in: a)
an
ability
to
predict
the
sub-AU
structure
in an
exozodiacal
system
given
overall
dust
density
and
planetary
arrangement,
using
our
system
as a
check;
and b)
understanding
dust in
terms of
the
origin
and
evolution
of
planetary
systems
(termed
a
"Theory
of
Everything"
at the
workshop).”
again
gets
into the
dust
playing
a
significant
role in
evolution
in
space.
This
quote
adds to
that
thinking
“Models
of dust
dynamics
could be
used in
conjunction
with
models
of star
and
planet
formation
to
explore
the full
range of
planetary
system
configurations
and
their
resulting
dust
cloud
morphologies
and
densities.
Back on
earth
from an
observational
point
there is
this
quote
“Because
of the
resonant
rapping
of
asteroid
dust
particles
with
small
orbit
eccentricities,
the
Earth is
embedded
in a
ring of
dust
that
co-revolves
with the
Earth
around
the Sun
(Dermott
et al.
1994;
Reach et
al.
1996).
The
Earth
resides
in a
cavity
in this
ring and
a cloud
of
enhanced
dust
density
permanently
trails
the
Earth in
its
orbit.
Dust
trapped
in the
Earth's
wake
emits
10% of
flux
density
of the
Earth
itself.
Each
planet
should
have
such a
wake.”
If the
dust is
part of
the bulk
of the
universe
it is
also
part of
the
shape.
I am not
locked
into
thinking
that the
universe
is flat.
I do
however
see that
since
almost
everything
in the
universe
is
orbiting
something
and
orbiting
by its
nature
forms
collective
disks
and the
nature
of a
disk is
flat
(yes
with
ecliptic
style
depth)
but
apparently
more
flat
than
round
and
round
requires
curvature.
A disk
may in
fact be
an
equator
style
slice
through
a
sphere.
Since I
was not
educated
to
believe
the
universe
is
either
expanding
or
contracting
a lot of
preconceived
“musts’
are
avoided.
I
believe
that the
universe
is both
expanding
and
contracting
and the
real
question
is if
there is
gain or
loss.
Now with
gain
where
does it
come
from,
can we
self
generate
gain?
And if
loss
where
does it
go?
It is
appropriate
here to
bring in
three
scientific
greats.
A quote
from The
Holographic
Universe
by
Michael
Talbot,
pages 37
and 39,
“During
his
early
years as
a
physicist
Bohm
also
accepted
Bohr’s
position,
but he
remained
puzzled
buy the
lack of
interest
Bohr and
his
followers
displayed
toward
interconnectedness”
and
“Bohr
and his
followers
also
claimed
that
quantum
theory
was
complete
and that
it was
not
possible
to
arrive
at any
clearer
understanding
of what
was
going on
in the
quantum
realm.
This was
the same
as
saying
there
was no
deeper
reality
beyond
the
subatomic
landscape,
no
further
answers
to be
found,
and
this,
too
grated
on both
Bohm and
Einstein’s
philosophical
sensibilities.”
And
mine.
A
Cal-Tech
page
says
this
about
the
dust:
"Zodiacal
dust is
the dust
found in
our
solar
system,
primarily
between
the Sun
and
Jupiter.
This
dust
originates
from
comets
and from
asteroid
collisions,
and can
sometimes
be seen
with the
naked
eye as a
triangular
glow
above
the
horizon
just
before
sunrise
or after
sunset."
