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[edit] Welcome

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 13:10, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Patteroast. Thank you for your contributions to Natural satellite. I notice that you are signing your name manually. It turns out that Wikipedia has a nifty feature that allows you to sign your own name after a posting (see above). If you use three tildes (~~~), you get a link to your home page with not date (e.g., hike395). If you use four tildes (~~~~), you get an additional timestamp (e.g., hike395 15:05, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)).

It's not required to use, but it sure is useful! --- hike395 15:05, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ah! Thanks, that is much easier. :) --Patteroast 10:43, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] BNL

Hello, I am much with the Barenaked Ladies love as well. Thanks for the hand! — Xoder|✆ 03:05, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mean diameters

A couple of questions and requests about those diameter changes you made to all those moons, if you don't mind. Where did you get the numbers from (I'm curious how they were calculated)? In the case of highly irrelgular moons like Amalthea (moon), could you make sure the actual dimensions are in the article text somewhere before deleting them? And since you appear to be doing it to every astronomical object article, could you stop by Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical Objects and update the template? I'll help out, but don't have any time until this evening at the earliest. Bryan 15:30, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Two New Saturnian Moons

I added the two newly-discovered Saturnian moons to Timeline of natural satellites, but I didn't do a whole lot of research on them. I used only the information present in the one press release, which may have contained incorrect or incomplete data, or data that I used incorrectly. As such, the names listed next to the two moons (S/2004 S 1 and S/2004 S 2) may be in the wrong order, or they may just plain not belong there. So, what I'm saying is, you should probably take a look at the three articles I linked to above to confirm all of the statistical data within them. GPHemsley 21:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I can't see any problems. As of now, the press release from JPL is the best info we've got. I checked the Solar System Dynamics pages, and Scott Sheppard's site. SSD only said "Porco, et al.", and Scott Sheppard listed the diameters and distances. Until the IAU Circular comes out, what you have is the most certain info out there.
On a side note, I was rather surprised to find out about them, and there was a bit of a mad scramble to see if I could contribute anything before it was already done. Wikipedia's starting to get a lot better at posting information about moons. When I joined (not long ago at all), there wasn't anything on any of the moons discovered in the last five years except two random ones with very sketchy info. And nobody used to seem to think unnamed moons deserved pages only a month ago, and now we've got contributors everywhere! :D
Uhh.. I guess I'm saying thanks. It's nice to know there are several people working on these things. :) --Patteroast 02:32, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Heh, no problem. I always like to take care of breaking news related to things that I'm interested, the solar system included. I wonder if there's a WikiProject related to space and stuff.... There probably is, and I've probably even seen it already, but I'm gonna go do another search. If there isn't, we should definitely start one. GPHemsley 03:15, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Yet More New Saturnian Moons

What makes you say S/2004 S 5 and S/2004 S 6 are "in the vicinity of the F ring"? The sources I cited in the S/2004 S 5 Talk page seem to say they're between Dione and Tethys (to me anyway --I'm guessing). Have you tried writing to the Harvard people so they allow us access to the IAUCs again?

Urhixidur 04:40, 2005 Jan 26 (UTC)

[edit] New Planets

I'm not sure exactly what your interests are, but I thought you might like to know that a few new planets were discovered recently: one called TrES-1, orbiting about 4 million miles from a star in the Lyra constellation, and one orbiting a star in the Ara/Altar constallation (the second of such description).

See here (mentions both planets, and their constellations), here (mentions TrES-1 and some detail), and here (details TrES-1, and its star/sun). GPHemsley 14:09, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You've got a Cool Username

Brookie here visiting from England - well done and keep up the good work - might include you on Nom de Wiki !! Bye... Brookie\talk

[edit] Mimantean

I found it: the adjectival form of Mimas should be Mimantean mye-man'-tee-un, parallel to Atlantean, as the Greek genitive is mīmántos. It gets zero hits on Google, but neither Mimasian (which keeps the declensional ending as if it were part of the stem) nor Mimian (which doesn't keep the full stem) would be a regular derivation. kwami 00:29, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

[edit] Minneapolis meetup

Hello Patteroast. I'm contacting you since you are listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Minnesota. I'm going to be at a conference in Minneapolis and am planning a Wikipedia meetup for October 8. If you are near Minneapolis at that time, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis. Angela. 20:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for Ascraeus Mons

Hello, good work on Ascraeus Mons, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in Ascraeus Mons? You can simply add links, preferably as the inline citations, or see citation templates for different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 13:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)