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Oooh, this is a very hard one, but you're close; read it a little closer.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

[bludgeoning mode]First diamond found in a meteorite?[/bludgeoning mode]

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Originally Posted by Arneb [bludgeoning mode]First diamond found in a meteorite?[/bludgeoning mode]

Why bludgeoning, it was stated in Eroica's link?

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Originally Posted by article In 1987, Zinner, his Washington University colleagues and a group of scientists at the University of Chicago found the first stardust in a meteorite. Those presolar grains were specks of diamond and silicon carbide.

The sites I read, however, did not mention the silicon carbide, only microscopic grains of diamond. This was the first evidence for substance originally coming from outside our solar system (presolar grains). Hence, these diamonds cam from afar ("a fire" is phonetically the same as “afar” in west Texas slang.)

You’re up, Arneb.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Simple: I was so eager to swing my club that I didn't read the link, or, to be honest, all the preceding posts (ra-hmmm )

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Originally Posted by George You’re up, Arneb.

And you find me unprepared. I'll see about this. Stay tuned.

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I am looking for an astronomer again. Berlin has a street named with his name, although not in his but someone else's honnor. This haiku might be his motto:

Flashing, swinging star.
Thou art not in sinus rhythm.
Thy meter I seek.

(I hope rhythm is one syllable ).

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Well, it seems it's time for a hint.

There is not only the street in Berlin, there is also a crater on the Moon - this time really in his honour.

Think musical instruments in the sky, in more than one way.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel?

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No. Why him?

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Well, it was a WAG in part but Bessel was German and does have a lunar crater named after him. I thought that the word meter could also apply to measuring distance and Bessel was the first to determine a stellar distance via parallax. However, the discription of the star in your poem seemed to indicate a variable (or then again perhaps something quite different) which doesn't fit 61 Cygni as far as I know and I couldn't find any information linking Bessel to music or a street in Berlin.

Dave Mitsky

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You might find this alley of thought worth pursuing .

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Bludgeoning with.... David Fabricius.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Well, Arneb, did George bludgeon correctly?

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Sorry, no. I hope you'l excuse my delay. I visited my wife's family in Bayreuth for her birthday, and we did have tickets for the somewhat scandalous Schlingensieff enactment of Wagner's Parsifal. Still impressive.

The effect on ourr lyrical astronomy quiz seems to have been that it has lost it's regular rhythm. Hmmmmm, sorrlyr.

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Arneb,

Two questions: Just what was scandalous about the enactment and how about another clue?

Dave Mitsky

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Well, Mr. Schlingensieff is a bit of the "professional troublemaker" in the German directing scene - having homeless people perform "the Robbers" by Schiller, having people do all kinds of shocking things on stage (sexual and/or excretory in nature), peppering his enactments with all kinds of video installation, that sort of thing. So when the boss of the Bayreuth festival, Richard Wagner's now 88-year-old grandson Wolfgang Wagner, announced that Schlingensieff would do the next enactment of Parsifal - Wagner's last work and of considerable mysticism - everyone knew we were in for some serious deconstruction.

And that's what happened: video sequences of voodoo rites to go along with the "Good Friday Magic" in the first act of the opera, an almost-naked Klingsor, Gurnemanz in stone-age costume, and during th final, extremely mystic scene, the entire stage is hidden behind a huge video screen playing a time-lapse movie of a decomposing dead rabbit. Loud boos from the audience.

And, well, the last line of my last post was a hint. The typos, aren't typos, and the wording is deliberate.

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I did think of Lyra when I first read this, but that's as far as I got!

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So, RR Lyr?

RR Lyrids do vary with a rhythm that deviates from the neat sine-rhythm of a cepheid's light-curve.

I still have no idea who the astronomer is, though.

Williamina Fleming, who discovered RR Lyraes variability?

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I picked up RR Lyrae from the clue and have spent the last two hours trying to determine who the male astronomer in question is without success.

Dave Mitsky

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Martin Schwarzschild, son of Karl Schwarzschild?

Dave Mitsky

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