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	<title>M.D. Anderson Planetarium</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The ideas of astronomy</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/27/the-ideas-of-astronomy.lu</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am still feeling my way about what kind of website to offer for the planetarium.  Being a scientist who engages in active research in addition to my educational roles (I&#8217;m a full-time professor at Lambuth as well as planetarium director), I think it&#8217;s important to share discoveries that might be interesting to you, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water on Mars</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/25/water-on-mars.lu</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Is there water on Mars?  We know the answer is &#8220;yes&#8221;, since Mars has ice caps at both poles that grow and shrink with the seasons.  The real, harder questions are:  how much water is on Mars, and where is it located?
On Earth, of course, a lot of the water is in liquid form on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/25/great-lakes-cosmology-workshop.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/25/great-lakes-cosmology-workshop.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alas, I still haven&#8217;t processed all of my notes from the Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop I attended two weeks ago.  I learned a great deal, and got caught up on some research topics I hadn&#8217;t heard about in a few years, so overall I think it was a successful trip.  However, my promised posts did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from Pittsburgh</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/08/live-from-pittsburgh.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/08/live-from-pittsburgh.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have safely arrived in Pittsburgh, and based on preliminary conversation with some of my fellow conference attendees, the talks are going to be very interesting.  I will pass along as much information as I can. If you missed the item posted before, I am at the Great Lakes Cosmology Conference at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. 
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		<title>Seeing the forest despite the trees</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/06/seeing-the-forest-despite-the-trees.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/06/06/seeing-the-forest-despite-the-trees.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 100 years or so, our view of the universe has changed dramatically.  It was possible in the early 20th century to think that our galaxy (literally meaning Milky Way, same root as &#8220;lactose&#8221; and &#8220;lactate&#8221;) might be the entire universe.  The famous &#8220;Great Debate&#8221; between astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Memorable Solar Eclipse</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/29/a-memorable-solar-eclipse.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/29/a-memorable-solar-eclipse.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date (May 29) in 1919, Arthur Stanley Eddington and his crew traveled to the island of Príncipe off the coast of Africa to observe a total solar eclipse.  Solar eclipses, which occur when the Moon&#8217;s shadow falls on Earth, aren&#8217;t all that rare, but this one was important:  it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Phoenix has landed</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/26/the-phoenix-has-landed.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/26/the-phoenix-has-landed.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Science News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Phoenix Mars probe successfully landed on Mars yesterday evening, and sent back its first pictures:

The Phoenix Mission website will have frequent updates over the course of the mission.
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		<title>Reborn from the ashes</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/24/reborn-from-the-ashes.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/24/reborn-from-the-ashes.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Phoenix Mars Mission has almost reached Mars, and the probe will land tomorrow:  Sunday, May 25.  This is one of the new generation of Mars missions, including the wildly successful robotic rovers and the orbiting Mars surveyor probe.  From the Phoenix website, Phoenix
may provide important answers to the following questions: (1) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Over Mars</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/20/flying-over-mars.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/20/flying-over-mars.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 19:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Astronomy Picture of the Day, a movie simulating what the Columbia Hills of Mars would look like if you could fly over them:


Click on the picture to see the whole movie and read what this is all about.
]]></description>
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		<title>Last Show of the Season!</title>
		<link>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/16/last-show-of-the-season.lu</link>
		<comments>http://planetarium.lambuth.edu/2008/05/16/last-show-of-the-season.lu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew R. Francis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Planetarium News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, May 19 is the last planetarium show of the season!  Please join us for one last viewing of &#8220;Black Holes:  the Other Side of Infinity&#8221;:

The show begins at 7:30 PM. Admission is $5 per adult, $3 per child under 18, and $10 for a family of 3 or more. Lambuth faculty, staff, and students [...]]]></description>
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