Mr Tom's Orbit

The Mathematica Journal has a new article showing how to simulate the gaps that appear in the asteroid belt at certain resonance frequencie...

 Some friends of ours are enjoying a trip to the West coast this week, and we are keeping their dog for them. Lucy is a cute little miniatur...

Here's a picture of the track made by a satellite as it flew over Fallen Leaf Lake near Lake Tahoe a couple of nights ago. It's very...

Here's an interesting article about a paper in Phys Rev Letters outlining a plan for testing the inflationary scenario. Have a look: Phy...

Mars is near opposition now, which means that it's fairly close. So I tried taking some pictures, using my 8" Celestron ttelescope ...

Movers came today and put the furniture back upstairs - it looks great on the new floor. Here are a few shots: And here is a gre...

First item: We just got our carpet on the third floor, plus on the stairs leading to the third floor, replaced by hardwoods. They look g...