What's New on the Site Archive

Archived Site Updates and Additions News

Archive: 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006

12/30/05

re-wrote Solar System > Asteroids page, greatly expanding and re-formatting the charts in the Advanced version
updated Exploration > 21^st Century page
updated Exploration > 21^st Century > Earth and Moon Missions page, including large update of SMART-1 mission
updated Exploration > 21^st Century > Other Inner Planets page, including moving onto it information on MESSENGER, MRO, and Venus Express, and expanding and updating such information
updated missions in Advanced > Solar System > Planets > Mercury and Venus pages
fixed style sheets in Advanced version archives
added article to Current Events about a new distance determination to the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy
updated Exploration > 21^st Century > Asteroids, Comets, and Sun page, including moving onto it information on Deep Impact
reduced size of site by 22 KB by removing extraneous spaces at the end of lines

12/29/05

re-wrote Solar System > Planets > Pluto page
re-wrote Solar System > Planets > Pluto > Pluto's Moon page, and expanded it to talk about the two new moons that were discovered, though pending confirmation
added section about what is considered a planet to Solar System > Planets page
fixed name of a KBO on Solar System > The "Edge" page
changed all CWRU e-mail addresses to CU e-mail address
re-wrote Solar System > Planets > Venus page, though reserved the Geology section to be written later pending more research materials
combined Current Events archives into years and updated Site Maps to reflect this
combined What's New archives into years and updated Site Maps to reflect this
updated the What's New archive to reflect recent changes
updated Extras > Legal, Links, and Sources > List of Sources by Page page based upon sources of the updated information
started revision of Solar System > Asteroids page

12/28/05

12/27/05

re-wrote Other Worlds main page
re-wrote Other Worlds > How to Find Them page
re-wrote Other Worlds > Data Trends page, with a large expansion of the text relating to the graphs on the Advanced version, and a reformatting of the Advanced version
removed Other Worlds > Data page and updated affected pages because there are too many for this site to keep track of
re-wrote the Solar System main page

12/26/05

changed moon numbers in charts and pages to a JavaScript function for easier updates
fixed some of the Date Modified scripts to correct code
added article to Current Events on planet formation around brown dwarfs
added article to Current Events on star speeding out of our galaxy
added article to Current Events about nearby gamma ray burst
added article to Current Events about light detected from an exoplanet
added article to Current Events explaining away Sedna's moon
added article to Current Events about SN1987 A's lack of a detectable remnant
added article to Current Events on the formation of giant stars
added article to Current Events about giant flares disrupting circumstellar disks, which could prevent planets from migrating inward
added article to Current Events about abundance of neon in sun-like stars
added article to Current Events about how stars form near giant black holes
added article to Current Events about a giant star cluster in the Milky Way
added article to Current Events showing the first extra-solar planet to be directly imaged
added article to Current Events about the first triple asteroid system imaged

12/25/05

12/24/05

12/23/05

created own versions of sunspot data graphs (numbers and butterfly diagram) for Advanced > Solar System > Sun > Solar Phenomena page
added article to Current Events about Uranian moons
added article to Current Events about Sirius' companion's mass

12/22/05

updated Solar System > Planets > Uranus > Uranus' Moons data
updated Advanced > Solar System > Asteroids graphs and changed one to an "image" to reflect density of asteroids in each location
updated Advanced > Other Worlds > Data Trends graphs

05/07/05

05/02/05

01/29/05

01/17/05

added article about Cassini Mission status to Current Events
added article about Deep Impact's launch and current status to Current Events
added article about Spitzer finding stellar incubators in M20 to Current Events
added article about multiple pulsars found in a globular cluster to Current Events
added article about Chandra finding swarm of black holes in Galaxy's center to Current Events
added article about blazar's jets approaching speed of light to Current Events
added article about Hubble finding infant stars in Small Magellanic Cloud to Current Events
updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets page
updated graphs on Advanced > Other Worlds > Data Trends page
copied Hubble Heritage summaries for October 2004, November 2004, and January 2005 to Hubble Heritage Archive pages
added new pages to Site Map
added new pages to Search

01/14/05

01/08/04

01/07/05

added article about the observation of Titan's surface to Current Events
added article about Prometheus observed capturing ring particles from Saturn's F ring to Current Events
added massive update article for the Mars Exploration Rovers' status to Current Events

01/06/05

added article about new modeling of Helix nebula to Current Events
added article about Spitzer and Hubble imaging protoplanetary disks to Current Events
added article on the discovery of the binary star that probably gave rise to Tycho's supernova to Current Events
added article about a new-found companion to the Milky Way to Current Events

01/05/05

added article about most powerful eruption in Universe observed to-date by Chandra to Current Events
added article about better Cepheid variable star calibration to Current Events

01/04/05

added article about periodic sterilization of the Milky Way's core to Current Events
added article about extra-solar planet capture to Current Events
added article about Kepler's supernova remnant to Current Events
added article about ancient black hole to Current Events
added article updating SMART-1 status to Current Events
added article about Huygens' detachment from Cassini and it's current journey towards Titan

01/03/05