<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <STYLE></STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 acc_role="text" CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV> <DIV>Our moderator must be bored, too!/ But I must counter Allan's conjection (repeated below) by noting that he clearly failed to consider the gravitational perturbations of Amalthea , Vesta, and Antimercury.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=mailto:MOOSEAE@uwec.edu href="mailto:MOOSEAE@uwec.edu">Moose, Allan E.</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu href="mailto:geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geyser Observation Reports</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:49 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Geysers] Mysterious snow shapes</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Scott,<BR><BR>Are you perhaps referring to the geysers on Enceladus? ( Video at <A title=http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/moons/enceladus_geysers_video.html href="http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/moons/enceladus_geysers_video.html">http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/moons/enceladus_geysers_video.html</A> )<BR><BR>Preliminary calculations (back of the envelop type, done without the envelop) indicate that ejecta miss the earth by several astronomical units.<BR><BR>I think a better explanation was that they were rolled up by lost polar bears.<BR><BR>Allan Moose<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>