Archived Site Updates and Additions
News
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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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