Wednesday 19 October 2016
Photo, left: Known objects in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. (Scale in AU; epoch as of January 2015.) Sun (yellow) ; Jupiter trojans (gray); Giant planets: J · S · U · N (red); Centaurs (green); Kuiper belt (blue) Scattered disc (orange) ; Neptune trojans (purplish). Distances but not sizes are to scale. Source: Minor Planet Center, www.cfeps.net and others
The Kuiper belt (or Dutch pronunciation: ['kœy̯pǝr],) sometimes called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the Solar System beyond the planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. Although many asteroids are composed primarily of rock and metal, most Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. The Kuiper belt is home to three officially recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System's moons, such as Neptune's Triton and Saturn's Phoebe, are also thought to have originated in the region.
The Kuiper belt was named after the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, though he did not actually predict its existence. In 1992, 1992 QB1 was discovered, the first Kuiper belt object (KBO) since Pluto. Since its discovery, the number of known KBOs has increased to over a thousand, and more than 100,000 KBOs over 100 km (62 mi) in diameter are thought to exist.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show.
Hour One
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block C: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Hour Two
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: Third debate, presidential candidates; Las Vegas.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block C: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; Mona Charen, syndicated columnist; Senior Fellow, Ethics & Public Policy Center; NRO; in re: The Republican candidate several times declined to agree that he’d accept the wisdom of American voters, the peaceful transfer of power through elections, the quintessentially democratic protocol.
He also neglected to seize on Mrs Clinton’s barn-door-wide opening on the economy.
538.com: between 6 and 7 points nationally, Mrs Clinton leading. Did Mr Trump reduce his opponent’s lead? No. He kept getting sidetracked by himself despite her vague, woolly pronouncements. He’s so damaged emotionally, as a human, he barely got in good one-liners, of which his remarks on Chicago violence was pretty good. He keeps tripping over his enormous feet. Even his facial expressions, interruptions, and bald-faced lies: Mr C’s iteration of his many attacks he’s made in the past months – on TV – he glowered at to the camera and said it was all lies.
Too little too late.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 2, Block D: Robert Sean Wilentz, Lapidus Professor of the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University; Harry Siegel, New York Daily News and the Daily Beast, in re: Trump’s disavowal of accepting the electoral results is unparalleled in the United states. The glory of early American politics was that after every election, even when the loser had reason this think he’d been cheated, all abided by the results. This shows not just contempt for the electorate, but for the Constitution,
Manafort: “This is the ultimate reality show.” Just go to 2000 and Bush v Gore. This is strange and terrible to see. Perhaps the end of the Republican party when the candidate says he may not respect the results. What we saw tonight was so egregious. The GOP has to support its candidate. I just saw the Constitution being trashed. In the first hour, we saw how a [competent] GOP candidate could have [turned this around], but Trump did not.
Hour Three
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block A: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; and Cumulus Media radio; & Steve Moore, Freedom Works (on leave from: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, Heritage Foundation), in re: The surprise tonight was Mr Trump’s refusal to say that he’d acccpt the election results. He did not adequately parry Mrs Clinton on the economy got one thing right toward the end: “The key way out of debt is growth.” He didn’t sell his plan, or go to history and the past. I was so disappointed! Fox poll: the economy is the number-one issue He wasn’t persuasive and I’m very disappointed.
What’s “middle-out growth”?? Ha-ha, I don’t know. On the Supreme Court I thought he clobbered Hillary. He could have punctuated some of his point better; did well with “India grows at 8%, China at 7% [inaccurate}, so why can't we grow at more than 1%?” The missing line: he should’ve just asked, how to you create more jobs if you heavily tax entrepreneurs and employers, who create jobs?” He shd’ve said, “You can't tax your way to prosperity” Need blunt stuff! “Put more money in people’s hands”
Chris Wallace won tonight’s debate.
She was more positive, optimistic. She said he had a dark and divisive vision—and I think that sticks. He Looked weird, ha a horrible expression on his face. He just missed all the opportunities to give American voter a brief seminar on why he’s wright, I don't understand it.
People want change! With the seven-point gap: anything that’ll change the momentum for the last twenty days? I don't think so. Growth growth growth. He missed every chance, and did very poorly about women’s stuff, stumbled, awful.
The two huge gaps: one apologizing for his misdeeds with women, and failure to agree to accept election results. He also sounded like a sore loser.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block B: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast; and John Fund, National Review Online, in re: Mrs Clinton as correct to say that Trump’s buildings have been built with Chinese steel (which was dumped at under cost). She called the Trans-Pacific Partnership as “the gold standard” then at the last moment turned against it. She did say she’d appoint a trade enforcer, but that’s not sufficient.
Sen Flake says Trump’s refusal to accept electoral results is “beyond the pale.” Trump could have said, “Of course I’ll accept the results unless there’s evidence of massive voter fraud” – but instead he showed complete disrespect for Americans. Lacks temperament of judgment to be president.
Japanese poll: 79% don't want Trump to be president. He said Japan and Europe need to pay for their own defense – has he been briefed on how much they already pay? Will they have to go nuke now because he intends to withdraw the US umbrella? There’ll be a lot of work for the new president to repair the results of this.
Only thing to turn this around would be an enormous wikileaks leak or a grave physical attack on the US could reduce the seven-point gap.
TRUMP WONT SAY IF HE’LL ACCEPT ELECTION RESULTS are the world headlines.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block C: Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Brett Arends, bi-continental political analyst; in re: Mrs Clinton called Mr Trump “a puppet of Russia”; Trump called Clinton. “a nasty woman.’ No instance in S history of a candidate refusing to accept election results. Does he understand that he’s damaging the Constitution. He had multiple possible answers – I intend to win, or I’ll challenge it in court.
I didn’t find it to be an amazing comment, sine I cynically find it to be normal for him. What I find most important is that this a blown chance for Trump – he needed to change the narrative but for he third time he looked undisciplined and unprepared As you go through life the only way to learn something is to sit down and ask, What did I do wrong? He didn't prepare three times; what’s wrong with him? He missed the core issues, esp trade; and he emitted word salad – no structure to his statements. Did he not understand this was the title fight and he needed to bring his best game?
Around the 88th minute of him throwing cheap shots, and he had to issue that “nasty woman” epithet, which [angered] a lot of woman including Brett’s wife. He’s behind the policy eight-ball, the popular eight-ball; he’s muffed his chance three times in a row.
Trump called himself “Mr Brexit”; how do Euros see him? With astonishment and horror – he’s not a wine that travels. You have to be American to understand why he a nominee. No obvious platform left for him. Clinton said she’d tax the rich and the corporations; she’s vulnerable on policies (taxing, entitlements), but as a horse race, it's clear that barring a bolt of lightning Hillary will win. Watching CNN, Kelly Ann Conway ran away from Dana almost sprinted to get away she was so mortified by this performance. Clinton was like the person in college who was three credits short of getting a degree.
USAToday headline: “Keep you in suspense.” WSJ, WaPo, all papers worldwide: Trump won't accept the election results.
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 3, Block D: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, and Gene Countryman, of Wichita, Kansas!; in re: Anything to show a change from the seven-point lead Mrs Clinton has? No. Mr Trump’s base will stick with him, and of course that’s not enough to win the election; but since he took that escalator down to announce he’d run, he’s just kept on winning one way or another so it's still too early really to predict the outcome of the election.
Hour Four
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block A: Hotel Mars, episode n. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & author, Russia in Space, The Past Explained, the Future Explored, in re:
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block B: Hotel Mars, episode n. Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & author, Russia in Space, The Past Explained, the Future Explored, in re:
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: Worlds without end: Astronomers have discovered another object far beyond Pluto and in an elliptical orbit whose farthest point is 1,450 astronautical units, or about 135 billion miles from the Sun.
This is not the same object recently discovered in a somewhat similar elliptical orbit.
Astronomers right now do not understand the formation process that put these objects in these distant orbits. Some think the objects might have originally come from the Oort cloud that is even farther out from the Sun, their orbits shifted by the as-yet undiscovered Planet X that astronomers love to talk about, but others are sceptical. Since no one has ever actually detected anything in the theorized Oort Cloud, it is also possible that it does not exist as currently theorized, and might actually be a more scattered collection of objects, like these new discoveries, that travel both farther from and closer to the Sun. http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-obj...
Wednesday 19 October 2016 / Hour 4, Block D: Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: Worlds without end: Astronomers have discovered another object far beyond Pluto and in an elliptical orbit whose farthest point is 1,450 astronautical units, or about 135 billion miles from the Sun.
This is not the same object recently discovered in a somewhat similar elliptical orbit.
Astronomers right now do not understand the formation process that put these objects in these distant orbits. Some think the objects might have originally come from the Oort cloud that is even farther out from the Sun, their orbits shifted by the as-yet undiscovered Planet X that astronomers love to talk about, but others are sceptical. Since no one has ever actually detected anything in the theorized Oort Cloud, it is also possible that it does not exist as currently theorized, and might actually be a more scattered collection of objects, like these new discoveries, that travel both farther from and closer to the Sun. http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-obj...