- Calvin's Quiz #541 - 2 Updates
- QFTCIWSS Game 8, Rounds 2-3: our parks, their revolution - 2 Updates
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 26 01:01PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > Although that answer only works if you don't count having an astronomical > catalog designation as being named after the person that the catalog is > named after. I don't think there's any catalog of galaxies named after a person. The most commonly referenced catalog is NGC = New General Catalog. What you are probably thinking of is the Messier list (named after Charles Messier), which has only 110 objects. That's too short to count as a catalog, and only a minority (about 40) of the Messier objects are galaxies. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 26 05:57PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > Although that answer only works if you don't count having an astronomical > > catalog designation as being named after the person that the catalog is > > named after. Dan Tilque: > I don't think there's any catalog of galaxies named after a person... Eh? > What you are probably thinking of is the Messier list (named after > Charles Messier), No, I was thinking that a number of astronomical catalogs are named that way, and they might include catalogs that include galaxies; *and* that if nothing else there was Messier's. After some searching I find the Zwicky catalog of galaxies, the Parkes catalog of radio sources (some of which are galaxies), and the Shapley-Ames catalog of galaxies (but that last one is two people). The Abell catalog is a near miss, because it lists *clusters* of galaxies. > which has only 110 objects. That's too short to count as a catalog, *Huh?* > and only a minority (about 40) of the Messier objects are galaxies. True, but I did not say "catalog of galaxies". -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail msb@vex.net | -- maybe I should have used four dots." -- Knuth My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 26 06:22PM +0200 > * Game 8, Round 2 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Parks Eh, no. > composed of delegations from the nobility, the clergy, and the > rest of the French population. It was the first time this body > had been convened since 1626. What was it called? National assembly > gur Rfgngrf-Trareny naq jvgu gurve bja ynpx bs cbjre, qrpynerq > gurzfryirf gb or n cbyvgvpnyyl rzcbjrerq obql vaqrcraqrag bs > gur Xvat. Jung jnf guvf svefg eribyhgvvbanel obql pnyyrq? National assembly > the greatest honor France can bestow upon any of its citizens: > later internees include Victor Hugo, Marie and Pierre Curie, > Louis Braille, and Antoine de St-Exupéry. What is its name now? Saint Suplice |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Oct 26 12:21PM -0700 Mark Brader wrote: > composed of delegations from the nobility, the clergy, and the > rest of the French population. It was the first time this body > had been convened since 1626. What was it called? Estates General > 4. Two members of the <answer 2> enumerated a list of civil rights, > which remain in force as part of France's constitution today. > What was this document called? Declaration of Human Rights > count of Mirabeau; by Thomas Jefferson; and by which third man, > a French aristocrat who had served in the American forces during > the Revolutionary War? Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (despite the comma, that's a single answer) > they were better known? > 7. Brumaire, pluviôse, germinal, and thermidor are all examples > of what? months of the French Revolutionary Calendar > 8. Georges Danton founded this committee, which executed him for > being lenient towards the enemies of the Revolution. After that, > it was commanded by Robespierre. What committee? Committee for Public Safetey -- Dan Tilque |
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