Shooting from the hip -

One order of catastrophitude below the GRBs are the X ray bursts, basically a type of nova on a compact object in a double system; they occur when part of the accretion disk starts nuclear fusion cataclysmically.

It would take an X ray satellite to see those, and Wikipedia tells that the first one that did was a Dutch X ray and UV telescope in the 70s.

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That's it, Arneb!

The first Dutch satellite ANS (a common Dutch girl name), the translated acronym meaning Astronomical Dutch Satellite, discovered (amongst other things) X-ray bursts (pdf) in 1976 (I hope that's the correct paper). As a kid I remember being very proud that we had our own satellite, but I never knew it had actually made some scientific discoveries until I recently happened upon it browsing the web.

You're up!

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Dang! And I didn't get my copy of Sterne und Welstraum ("Stars and Space", it incorporates the German edition of Astronomy) yet.

Wait just a little while.

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I believe that the English equivalent of "raum" is "room", as in
"room to grow". What is the meaning or function of "welst-" ?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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You are right, Jeff - though there is a twist.

First of all, I mistpyed - it's Welt, not Welst, Welt meaning world.
Second, "Raum" doesn't only mean "room", but also "space".

So "Weltraum" literally means "world-space". That can be interpreted, both rather appropriately, as "the space in which the worlds reside" (with that interpretation, the gramatically most correct but cumbersome form would be "Weltenraum"; you will see this word used occasionally in older works, but it fell out of use) or "the space that makes up the world".

In short, "Weltraum" is German for "space" without an article, that is, astronomical space, not the space between two cars or the space in the living room.

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Waiting for the next issue of Sterne und Weltraum, Arneb?

*bump*

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It reminds me of the aphorism that whatever is said in Latin appears more profound.

I've also got this vague recollection 'twas the motto of some or other of the Apollo missions.

Edit: Google tells me it was Apollo 13.

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It reminds me that this thread will never die!

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On to you, AndreasJ!

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Okay, 20 questions. I'm thinking of an astronomical object ...

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Is it in the Solar System?

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(1) Yes, it's in the Solar System.

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Is it inside the orbit of Jupiter, including Jupiter's path?

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Oh no...this is back.

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Better not to be around when Centaur finds out....

3. Is it an orbiting celestial body (as opposed to "something ON an orbiting celestial body"; for the purposes of this question, the Sun itself is an orbiting body, because it orbits the gravicenter of the Solar system)?

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(1) It's in the Solar System.
(2) It's not inside the orbit of Jupiter.
(3) It's not, in itself, an orbiting celestial body.

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Is it man-made?

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(4) It's not man-made. (It's not made by women either!)

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Is it a region in space (eg. heliopause)?

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Assuming that the answer to George's question is "No, it is not a region
in Space"...

Is it liquid?

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(5) It's not a region in space (eg. heliopause).
(6) Yes, it's liquid.

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Is it on Titan?

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(7) Yes, it's on Titan.

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I think we're getting pretty close.

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Is this the point in the game where we shuffle around, look all innocent, and say anything but the answer?

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This is the point at which I'd have to do some research to get the
names of the bodies of liquid identified on Titan. I recall that one-- the
largest, I would expect-- was named after one of the Great Lakes. Huron?
Superior? And I think the name was Latinized. But research is too much
like work, and I have Maynard G. Krebs syndrome.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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You may want to try and chase this down fairly quickly, because starting tomorrow evening (CET), I am likely to be off BAUT for some days.

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*Sigh*

Will methane do, or do you need the name of a lake, e.g. Lake Ontario?

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