[meteorite-list] REAL Great planetary alignment (was...the vision is back)

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Steve A. (ILL.) wrote:
<<was not the VISION a super android with the AVENGERS?>>

to which Rob M. responded with the Royal "WE":
<<...Can we please avoid what happened a couple of weeks ago. ...Apologies 
for the mail. I suspect it won't be the last on the subject! >>

Steve, He was a "synthezoid".  The "Behold the Vision" issue - I still recall 
the red cover of the mag which my friend had (an Avengers nut with Vision 
specialty) in a baggie.  Lessee, if Avengers #1 was in about 1964, and they were 
monthly, that would have been in about good ol' year of '69.  Were you about 
16?  Since you say as a kid, I bet you got it right off the press.  Any chance 
you have any of the old ishes?  I sold a complete set of US Fantastic Four's 
(my specialty) except for #1 which I never had, all for $200.  I wish I could 
undo that...

And Rob, Instead of worrying about keystroking your overused delete button on 
Steve, how about checking out a great cometological planetary alignment.  If 
you have never seen Uranus...seriously, On May 24 at about 5:00AM local time, 
timed just before Jupiter sets - Best to do between two hours and 1 hour and 
twenty minutes before the "crack" of Sunrise, by the time you are as far north 
as Munchen you'll be getting up at least by 4:00AM), you can see a beautiful 
crescent Moon rise just three degrees from Venus!  But that is just for 
starters...you can see Neptune and, if you have a big scope, Pluto, too!  Uranus, 
Neptune and Pluto will be in that order from East to west...

Forget about Pluto (mag. 13.9) - here's what to do with a decent binocular.  
I did say crescent Moon - that means the B fragment of the comet will be a 
good bet after waiting the Moon out all these days.  Hooorrrayyyy!!!  Connect 
Venus/Moon to Jupiter (or where Jupiter set a moment ago).  You have just traced 
out the ecliptic across the sky.  Under the Great Square of Pegasus in Pisces 
(don't bother catching the lines of this fishy constellation), you can find 
the Comet B fragments!  It ought to be fading at about 7th magnitude.  But it 
could blow up again as it has a habit of doing.  The same distance of the Moon 
to the Comet, if you keep going along the ecliptic on your planetary tour, 
there will be Uranus exactly centered half way between the end-points on the upper 
segment of the polygon of Aquarius, and another time that same distance and 
you get to Neptune (mag. 7.9) in Capricorn, which will be three degrees beyond 
the brightest star (delta) of that constellation.  Pluto is about twice that 
distance (i.e., the same as the Comet to Neptune) in Ophiuchus's tail by the Xi 
star if you have big glass and the eyes of Laura Mars.

This is a pretty awesome astronomical line-up for those who are tired of the 
contagious and hypnotizing delete-keystroke stepping led by the Bob Haag 
look-alikes that do aerobics workouts for out of shape guests on the free hotel TV 
channel.

Saludos, Doug
PS if anyone wants a personalized finder chart with my compliments for the 
comet's B fragments at the indicated time, I'd be glad to send it if you promise 
you wake up a couple of hours before Sunrise.  Send me your lat/lon, time 
zone and if you have daylight saving time or not.