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Archive: 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006

09/13/06

  • added "Dwarf Planets" to sub-menu bar under "Solar System" tab
  • removed "Pluto" from planets' tertiary navigation
  • removed Pluto from planets' data table
  • altered text in Solar System introduction page to remove reference to Pluto as a planet
  • fixed redundant text on regular site's main Solar System page
  • added Solar System > Dwarf Planets page
  • added Solar System > Dwarf Planets > Ceres and ~> Eris pages
  • moved Pluto from Solar System > Planets > Pluto to Solar System > Dwarf Planets > Pluto
  • adjusted Site Map with new Dwarf Planets section
  • started data table for dwarf planets

09/06/06

  • added Hubble Heritage images for July and August to Hubble Heritage Archive
  • updated Archived Site Updates and Additions News
  • re-formated some of the Current Events articles
  • updated Author information (Extras > About the Authors)

08/16/06

  • added article about black holes to Current Events
  • added article about an independent measurement of the Hubble Constant to Current Events

08/15/06

  • updated all the Planets pages with Pluto's now 3 moons
  • updated Solar System > Planets > Pluto page to include information about its three moons
  • updated Solar System > Planets > Pluto > Pluto's Moons page to include updated information on its three moons
  • added article about single stars to Current Events
  • added article showing a new image of the Andromeda Galaxy's dust to Current Events
  • added article about an observed nova to Current Events
  • added article about magnetic fields being required for starbirth to Current Events
  • added article about a gas halo around a spiral galaxy to Current Events
  • added article about a polluting neutron star to Current Events

06/07/06

  • updated Advanced > Solar System > Asteroids graphs and numbers
  • updated Extra-Solar Planet data and graphs
  • added 2006 Hubble Heritage archive page to the Advanced > Exploration section and appropriate links on other Hubble Heritage image pages
  • fixed terminology of "spring" vs. "neap" tides on Solar System > Earth > Earth's Moon page, per an independent reader's feedback
  • replaced the diameter of Venus with the equatorial and polar radii on all planetary data tables, per an independent reader's feedback
  • fixed a table heading on Solar System > Uranus > Uranus' Moons page to read "Distance from Uranus" (instead of Jupiter), per an independent reader's feedback
  • fixed a type-o on Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Galileo Galilei page, per an independent reader's feedback
  • fixed the discovery year of Uranus' moon "Juliet" to 1986, not 1968, per an independent reader's feedback
  • fixed the title of Uranus' moons page
  • altered the wording on the Albert Einstein page under "Matter and Energy" on how the Sun's energy is formed, per an independent reader's feedback
  • fixed statement that the North Star (Polaris) is also called the Dog Star (Sirius is the Dog Star), per an independent reader's feedback
  • slightly altered the text about our Galaxy on the main page, per an independent reader's feedback

01/12/06

  • worked on Search Engine ... it's still slow, but it works, and had to modify the way the date modified is found
  • started new page: Solar System > Birth

01/11/06

  • updated copyright information across site
  • added article to Current Events about stellar occultation by Charon results
  • updated Charon's density and radius on Solar System > Planets > Pluto > Pluto's Moons page based upon the ESO press release for the Charon occultation
  • updated Extras > Legal, Links, and Sources > List of Sources By Page to list the ESO press release for density and radius data
  • added article to Current Events about Polaris ab being seen for the first time
  • added article to Current Events about a newly observed galaxy merging with ours
  • added article to Current Events about Vega's equatorial bulge
  • added article to Current Events with new image of M42 from HST
  • added article to Current Events about Spitzer data showing possible comets around a dead star

01/10/06

  • updated extrasolar planet data

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