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Commander’s Log—August 08 Man, what a busy month aboard SBK! We had a fabulous time blogging for the US Campaign for Burma in the SBK LiveJournal Community July 26th/27th, and raised a total of $225 charity dollars. Not only was I pleased at the great turnout in bloggers and sponsors, but the posts are always interesting to read and everyone has such diverse things to talk about—great going, one and all! Therefore, I am pleased to reward the following people with promotions for their efforts in this and other club wide projects over the last few months: As of August 6th, Computer Ops Chief Chrystalline Lauryl is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, Security Chief John Barnes is promoted to the Marine rank of General. Third Officer Laura Begley is promoted to the rank of Commodore. Second Officer Jan Popp is promoted to the rank of Commander. First Officer Dave Jones is promoted to the rank of Admiral. In addition, Starbase Karma is pleased to offer an Honorary Civilian Membership for 1 full year to the following friend who helped with Day of Blogs 2008: Jeanne Jones ….and for helping blog in both 2007 and 2008 Honorary Crewman’s Memberships for 1 full year to the following: Cadet
Maria Hancock Promotion certificates and membership info will be sent US mail in the next few days! I could not be more proud of what SBK is
achieving this year and of her crew that I stand beside each day. Each
and every one of you ROCK! Thanks for serving aboard Starbase Karma—the
best time travel sci fi club anywhere! Addy J
KARMA SCIENCE We all know Pluto was demoted, stripped of its planet status, in 2006. But do you know how that came about? Did the astronomical community enter the voting booth and vote against Pluto? No! In 2005. Mike Brown announced that he and his team had discovered a new planet. Eris: The 10th planet in our solar system. At the time he knew this might not be approved by the International Astronomers Union. Brown had hoped to do more study on this discovery but rushed the announcement when he thought his computer had been hacked and another team was about to take the credit. (in reality, he had unknowingly been posting his sighting log in a public blog) As he expected, there was much debate over whether or not this new discovery was really a planet or merely a Kuiper Belt object. The IAU met in 2006 to discuss these items and to establish criteria for an object to be classified as a planet. The first set of criteria would have given us 50 planets in our solar system. The IAU members voted this down and the team went back to the drawing board. They came back with these criteria which were accepted by the membership present: (1) The object must be in orbit around a star, while not being itself a star, (2) the body must be massive enough for its own gravity to pull it into a nearly spherical shape, and (3) the object has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Item number three is what caused Pluto to be demoted, reducing the number of planets in our system to eight. The passing of this resolution came with a bit of controversy. Of the 9600 members of the IAU, only 424 voted. Some argue that if we follow the criteria to the letter, even Earth does not clear its neighborhood. But Pluto’s planethood had been debated long before Brown’s discovery. Pluto has locked its moon Charon into an orbit so only one side is shown to Pluto (yes, just like the Earth’s moon). Pluto and Charon are locked so tight that Pluto always shows the same face to Charon. Pluto is small and icy, has an eccentric orbit and lies just outside the orbit of Neptune. Wait! That sounds just like a Kuiper Belt object. Brown thinks the IAU did the right thing.
Ornaments For Sale Here's the list again...I've lowered the prices by half at least for individual pieces, but if someone wants the whole batch for $75.00 - it's theirs!!!! 1.
Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 1991 $25.002. Starship Enteprise Shuttlecraft Galileo (message from Mr. Spock) 1992 $10.00 3. (not Hallmark) Collector's Case Next Generation with figures of Kirk and Q - they are not in their original packages 1993 $2.00 4. Next Generation Klingon Bird of Prey 1994 $5.00 5. Next Generation Romulan Warbird 1995 $5.00 6. Ships of Star Trek Miniatures - Starship Enterprise original, USS Enterprise and Klingon Bird of Prey 1995 $5.00  7. Captain James T Kirk 1995 $5.00 8. Captain Jean Luc Picard 1995 $5.00 9. USS Voyager 1996 $10.00  10.
Mr. Spock 1996 $5.0011. Commander William T Riker 1996 $5.00 12. Star Trek Deep Space 9 USS Defiant 1997 $5.00 13. USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E 1998 $5.00 14. "Q" Blown Glass ornament 2000 $5.00 15. Voyager - Delta Flyer (message from Janeway) 2002 $5.00 16. Enterprise NX-01 (voices and display stand) 2002 $5.00  17. Commander Trip Tucker 2004 $5.00 18. Star Trek Miniature Insignias - Command Insignia original series, Communicator from movies and Insignia from Enterprise show 2004 $5.00 Anyone interested should contact Debi Hess at teddibee@fuse.net. And if they live in Cincinnati or nearby she works with Dave so we can do delivery. ;)
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