more content in German | mehr Inhalt auf deutsch …is back again: the kinderlein comet… I already watched, erm, heard it on the Christmas fair in front of my window. 
16°C in December…
(that’s 61°F) …then it will surely snow in April…
Advent, Advent…
…about time that it’s really here, with all the decoration and other stuff to view or buy everywhere…
At least the Halloween boom pushes the start of Chrismas further away. 
Spam
Hardly anyone reading this, hardly anything I’m writing, but some “nice” pingback spam hit last weekend… well, should it get worse (which, from what I read, it might), I’ll have to install something to handle that automatically. But for now, I’ll save my time.
(BTW the Systems 2006 has begun… why not attend hall A3, booth 565 if you’re there?)
Lawless?
So the dwarf planet 2003 UB313 and its moon, previously nicknamed Xena (played by Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle, who were (among others) responsible for a lot of dispute and, erm, strife and discord not only among astronomers recently – even causing Pluto to lose its official status of a real planet –, are now officially named Eris (after the Greek goddess of strife and discord) and Dysnomia (demon of lawlessness, a child of Eris).
Now that’s what I call good naming…
Read what the “Bad Astronomer” writes about it.