What's New on the Site Archive

Archived Site Updates and Additions News

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

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