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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Astronomy
James Webb’s telescope
The universe has just got much, much larger… Continue reading
In a spin
4.6 billion years is a long time to be doing the same thing over and over again . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Earth, Evolution, Homo sapiens, Oxygen, Planets, Red giant, Solar system, Sun
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A lunar complaint
Someone is not celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earthmen landing on the Moon. Continue reading
Rosetta
A long way to go to see an icy lump Continue reading
An orbital track
Brighter than a comet, faster than a star . . . Continue reading
Asteroid 21012 DA14
Fingers crossed . . . Continue reading
Keep calm and carry on
Don’t panic! Continue reading
April showers
Rain on the plain, but not in Spain . . . Continue reading
Twinkle, twinkle, little sar
Not just like a diamond… Continue reading
ExoMars Rover
A-rovin’, a-rovin’… Continue reading
Chondrules
A hint of ancient provenance Continue reading
The Owl, the Pussy-cat and the telescope
An astronomical nursery rhyme Continue reading
First impressions
Things are seldom what they seem . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Diseases, Einstein (Albert), Matter, Physics, Plate tectonics, Reality, Relativity, Time, Witchcraft
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Man in the Moon
Rejoicing in the heavens? Continue reading
Making sense of the Universe
But not yet. . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Science, Universe
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The Rime of the Ancient Astronaut
Nor any drop to drink? Continue reading
Spotless!
The Sun has got no spots on Continue reading
Eclipsed
It’s up there, somewhere Continue reading
Meteoritic SOS
An alien voice Continue reading
Venus
A fearsome beauty Continue reading
Averted vision
Look away now! Continue reading
Phoebe fly-by
A close encounter Continue reading
The Sun and Hertzsprung-Russell
Some things are even bigger and brighter Continue reading
Astronomers
Facing both ways? Continue reading
High hopes
Heavenly apirations Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
The sky at night
In search of a star Continue reading
Earth to Mars. . .
Facing up to the Red Planet Continue reading
Martian methane
Where could it have come from? Continue reading
Round and round
All motion is relative Continue reading
Dust to dust
The answer to a persistent problem Continue reading
The middle way
A creative tension Continue reading
A lunar aversion module
Life on the mooon? No thanks! Continue reading
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Tagged Anorthosite, Armalcolite, Astronomy, Geology (lunar), KREEP, Moon, Mullard Space Science Laboratory
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