Sep. 8th, 2010

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 Meme
1. Grab a book near you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag three people.


Well, the first thing I grabbed was A Man For All Seasons, because my most excellent and erudite spouse left his copy at my desk this morning.  Useful for settling family arguments, that one is.  But his copy of it runs a scant 94 pages, so here's the second try.

"The Ring nebula's inner dimensions are about half the outer ones.  It is known from the spectrum lines that M57 is slowly expanding.  The central star is a difficult object visually, and magnitude estimates disagree."

From The Messier Album by John H. Mallas and Evered Kreimer.  It's a 1978 guide to some very nice deep-sky objects.

I don't tag people, stupid meme!

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