User talk:Volcanopele

Zamama_(volcano)
Hey there this ionian volcano page needs the attention of an expert like yourself. AmmarBanafea (talk) 21:37, 16 April 2015 (UTC) Thanks for building wikipedia with your efforts.

Polydeuces (moon)
Whence the orbital details (inclination, etc.)?

Urhixidur 00:22, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)


 * (Copy of answer received through e-mail):
 * The orbital elements come from C. C. Porco et al. Cassini Imaging Science: Initial Results on Saturn's Rings and Small Satellites. Science, Vol 307, Issue 5713, 1226-1236, 25 February 2005, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/307/5713/1226
 * Volcanopele


 * I've added the reference to the page's links. Thanks.
 * Urhixidur 02:22, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)

Hi, similar question to above. It'd be great to include some kind of reference for the improved diameter estimate. If it's not put in, it becomes a bane a year or two down the track because it can become hard to track down where it came from, and doubts appear :-) Deuar 22:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Done and Done. I should also note that recent disk resolved images seemed to confirm this size, which I what reminded me to change that number.--Volcanopele 22:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That was fast! By the way thanks for all the excellent research on Saturn's icy moons you Cassini guys have been doing, and the way it's released rapidly to the public. It's really appreciated. Deuar 23:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Enceladus
Just wanted to commend you on the great job you've done on not only the Enceladus article itself, but the pages for its surface features! I think they are an example that the rest of the surface feature pages should be worked on to match. Keep up the great work! --Patteroast 17:34, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on getting this to featured status. Great article, I enjoyed reading it. --BillC 16:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you cropped the Enceladus image even further (which is fine, though I prefer at least some blackness around it), but what strikes me is the image appears much sharper. Did you sharpen it, because I already applied a smart sharpen in Photoshop CS2? This just looks too excessive even for my taste, it's starting to get that Voyager processing feel to it. Ugo 07:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I can revert it, no problem. The sharpening is meant to remove some of the smoothing effects caused by the PSF, I'll let you mess with that to your liking.  I trimmed it so it would work better as the title image. --Volcanopele 18:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, a new cropped version is up, but without additional sharpening as it was already sharpened (the "smart sharpen" filter used actually does something similar to deconvolution). Ugo 20:35, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Good job on the Enceladus-related articles from me, too. I've been doing a lot of cleanup and reorganization related to planetary surface features lately and I was surprised to find that wee little Enceladus was the most thoroughly written-about of Saturn's moons, at least as far as articles about surface features go. Was expecting Titan to be getting all the attention. :) Bryan Derksen (talk) 04:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

newly named Uranus moons
Hello, you have recently changed some Uranus moons to the names Cupid, Mab, Perdita, Francisco and Ferdinand. Can you please give me a reference for the naming of these satellites, as i was not able to find an official confirmation.

Thanks, --Gunter.krebs 19:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)


 * http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append7.html contains a list of Satellite names provided by the organization that does the naming. Definitely the first place to check for new official names.  Volcanopele 17:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for the info --Gunter.krebs 10:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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Allow me...

 * Sweet!! Thank you so much.  Now on to another moon... --Volcanopele 19:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * How about Titan? Reyk  YO!  23:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * sigh* I might as well. It is on my to-do list.  Personally, I'd prefer to start by infusing the other major Saturnian moon articles with Cassini-derived info.  The Mimas article doesn't even have some of the best images taken by Cassini of the surface. The Janus article has no image from Cassini.  The Titan article is in serious need of rehauling.  I have suggested an outline in the talk page, but I haven't had time to implement it. --Volcanopele 00:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Venus
Hi there! I saw the Astronomy collaboration of the week you added to Venus. You might like to know that Venus is currently a featured article candidate. Within the last few weeks, Worldtraveller and I have created a new version, which has been nominated for FA status. You might like to add comments on the current article there. Regards, BillC 21:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * sigh* okay, ACOTW changed to Mars. Thanks for the heads up. --Volcanopele 22:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Eritrea
I was wondering if you would be interested in helping me improve the article Eritrea to FA status? I think it already has plenty of content it just needs to have its language cleared up. If you would I would really appreciate it! Merhawie 18:57, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Europa (moon)
I like the work youve done on Enceladus, and would like for Europa to become a GA, it needs a copy-edit/cleanup... and you seem to do a good job, reckon you could pop over and have an edit? -- Nbound 05:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Laomedeia?
I noticed the new names on the Neptune's natural satellites page, so I went to add them onto the Timeline of Natural Satellites... after I did so, I noticed the link to Laomedeia redirected to Halimede, by your edit. I'm quite confused by this point. What's going on? --Patteroast 23:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I got confused as to which name applied to S/ 2002 N 1. So I first moved that article to Halimede, then to Laomedeia.  When I got an email from the IAU naming group about which names applied to which moons, I moved it back to Halimede.  However, because of that incorrect move, Laomedeia redirects to Halimede.  For now, use Laomedeia until we can get that fixed. --Volcanopele 23:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I have submitted a request for an uncontroversial move of S/2002 N 3 to Laomedeia (moon). In the meantime, Laomedeia (moon) now redirects to S/2002 N 3, as it should. RandomCritic 09:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The move to Laomedeia (moon) has been completed. RandomCritic 11:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Quaoar's moon and IAUC 8812
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SATELLITES OF 2003 AZ_84, (50000), (55637), AND (90482)

M. E. Brown and T.-A. Suer, California Institute of Technology, report the discoveries of four satellites of large transneptunian objects from observations with the Hubble Space Telescope High Resolution Camera (+ F606W filter). Observations of (55637) 2002 UX_25 on 2005 Aug. 26.64 UT detected a satellite that was 2.5 +/- 0.2 mag fainter than the primary at a separation of 0".164 +/- 0".003 in p.a. 153 +/- 2 degrees. Observations of (90482) Orcus on 2005 Nov. 13.13 detected a satellite that was 2.7 +/- 1 magnitude fainter than the primary at a separation of 0".25 +/- 0".01 in p.a. 128 +/- 1 deg. Observations of 2003 AZ_84 on 2005 Dec. 2.99 detected a satellite that was 5.0 +/- 0.3 mag fainter than the primary at a separation of 0".22 +/- 0".01 in p.a. 321 +/- 2 deg. Observations of (50000) Quaoar on 2006 Feb. 14.90 detected a satellite that was 5.6 +/- 0.2 mag fainter than the primary at a separation of 0".35 +/- 0".01 in p.a. 110 +/- 1 deg.

V1281 SCORPII

H. Naito and S. Narusawa, Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory; and H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, report that a low-resolution spectrogram (range 410-670 nm; resolution 1600 at H_alpha) of the possible nova reported on IAUC 8810 was obtained on Feb. 21.84 UT with the 2.0-m NAYUTA telescope (+ MALLS). The spectrum shows a broad H_alpha line with a P-Cyg profile (the FWHM of the emission component is about 1800 km/s), along with many other weaker lines, indicating that the star is indeed a classical nova. A narrow Na I D absorption feature suggests the existence of considerable interstellar reddening. Yamaoka adds that Y. Fujita (Kuma-Kogen, Ehime, Japan) made a prediscovery CCD image of the area of the nova with a Nikon D50 camera (+ 105-mm f/2 camera lens) on Feb. 18.850, and the nova was not visible to limiting mag 11.6. N. N. Samus, Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, reports that this nova has been given the designation V1281 Sco.

V1280 SCORPII

C. Buil, Castanet, France, reports that an optical spectrogram of V1280 Sco obtained on Feb. 20.20 UT using a 0.28-m Schmidt- Cassegrain telescope (+ Lhires spectrograph) shows an H_alpha P-Cyg profile and a FWHM of 730 km/s; the intensity of the H_alpha peak intensity is 2.3 times the local 670-nm continuum. CCD magnitudes by J. D. West, Mulvane, KS: Feb. 21.467 UT, H = 2.87 +/- 0.06; 21.483, V = 4.73 +/- 0.01.

2007 February 22              (8812)            Daniel W. E. Green

regards, Chesnok 13:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sweet, thanks a bunch! Not sure how to turn that info into something for the Quaoar article.  I think it at least mentions that Quaoar has a moon.  --Volcanopele 18:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Io (moon)
I noticed it was languishing in the list of former featured articles and popped over to buck it up a bit, but you seem to have rescued it already. I've given it a bit of a copy-edit and knocked out some redundancy, but it seems in good shape. Are you planning on expanding it further (I don't see that it is lacking anything), or shall we send it back to FAC? Cheers Yomangani talk 13:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * There are a few things that can be added. The most important section that needs fixing is the "Interaction with Magnetosphere" section.  Right now, it is just copied from the old article that seemed to refer to that interaction, but more needs to be added on the Io Flux Tube, the Sodium cloud, the Io plasma torus, and Io's effects on Jupiter's magnetosphere in general.  Being a geologist and NOT as plasma physicist makes this a difficult section for me to write.  Once that section gets cleaned up, and maybe the atmosphere section as well, I would like to send this to a peer review first, as well as get some input from some of my fellow Io researchers.  --Volcanopele 16:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the "Interaction with Magnetosphere" could stand a tiny expansion but I'd be wary of writing what should be a separate article in there. I'm not sure the Atmosphere section needs anything adding. How do you feel about the cite templates for references? There are a few inconsistencies in the citations that they would iron out but I know not everybody is a fan of them. (and if I haven't made it clear, I think it's an impressive piece of work - halfway through copy-editing I suddenly thought "I bet it is up at FAC already" and was surprised when I didn't see the banner on the talk page). Yomangani talk 17:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't think we need to go as long as a separate article, though that makes me wary of expanding some of the other section for fear we would be entering that territory. I certainly feel though that "Volcanism on Io" should have an article all its own.  --Volcanopele 17:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * WRT the cite templates, I don't think they are perfect, and prefer to use my own style, based loosely on the Science magazine format, with article titles included to act as an anchor for links. So one of the things that also needs to get fixed is to use a common citation format.  However, I understand the need for them, top maintain some style consistency across Wikipedia, and will use them for that reason.  --Volcanopele 17:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Polydeuces
Hello !

At the end of Talk:Polydeuces_(moon), User:Rebjon21 seems to suggest that the article mention the team only and be unblocked. Do I understand that this satisfies you ? If no objection is made, the article will be unprotected shortly, which is somewhat overdue.

Thank you in advance and good continuation. Rama 18:39, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Sweet! Thanks.  --Volcanopele 22:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Cryovolcano
Sorry to have to ask this, but are you sure that image is from Torola Macula? I got that image from a page claiming it was Genesa Macula, but it could have been wrong.  Serendi pod ous  19:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am 100% positive that that is Tortola Facula :) Ganesa Macula and Tortola Facula The page for Ganesa Macula has the correct image from Cassini RADAR.  --Volcanopele 20:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Titan
Could you give Titan another read-though? Let me know if we've addressed your concerns. Thx.  Serendi pod ous  11:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Uranus
This article is currently a FA candidate. Since you are an expert in planetary sciences, may I ask you to review Uranus? Comments can be left here. Ruslik 13:14, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

HI!!
Hi Volcanopele, my name is Oscar and I´m from Mexico. I´m doing an english high school project that consists on doing an essay of the main characteristics of a foreign university. First of all,I would like to know if you are able to help me with the information I could need in this project. By the way, I will really appreciate your help, read you later...ciao. Yacopop 01:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)YacopopYacopop 01:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Would you be interested in visiting global cooling?
I've got a frustrating situation over at global cooling where the global warming crowd are denying that there's anybody currently holding that we're in the lead in for a bout of global cooling. Whether we are or not is beyond me but it's rather obvious from even a cursory google search that some people do believe it so. They don't want to talk about it. They don't want to give any reason for challenging. It's the same old run around of asking for sources for everything including where the sun rises and challenging the sourcing until one gives up. Global Cooling is interesting because it's not structured as entirely a science article but rather a combination science and popular press article. They're denying that the popular press has any articles on it. TMLutas (talk) 01:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Volcanism on Io FAC
Hey VP, I forgot to ask this earlier, but would you mind if I co-sponsored the FAC? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 03:06, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem, you have helped a lot on this article. --Volcanopele (talk) 04:11, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats VP, Volcanism on Io is now in the Featured Article class! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 22:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Just thought I'd throw in my congrats as well. The article looks great! - Yohhans talk 19:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

VP, thought I'd let you know, the Volcanism on Io article [|will appear on the main page] on November 10, 2008. Yay! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 05:25, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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Dysnomia
Volcanopele, where do the figures for eccentricity and inclination come from that you added to Dysnomia back in June 2007 ? I have just read the reference fully, but there are no figures for eccentricity and inclination included in that reference. --Franklin Demenge (talk) 14:42, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Erdos number
Congrats on the improvement of your Erdos number! :D — Huntster (t @ c) 00:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL, wow you caught that. Yeah, just found out that an earlier co-author of mine, Jack Wisdom, has an Erdos number of 4, which is smaller than what I previously used as a reference, Carl Sagan, who I'm two papers removed from.  --Volcanopele (talk) 00:15, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

VIMS Titan specular reflection observation
Just curious - what body of liquid (if known) is the reflection off, and is there a reference for that? Thanks, WolfmanSF (talk) 09:18, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It is at a lake located at 71N, 337W, just west of Kraken Mare, according to the NASA/JPL Press release. This relatively large lake (230x70 km) doesn't currently have a name.  The lake can be seen in the USGS/Cassini RADAR labeled map of the north polar region to the lower left of the areas labeled Kraken Mare.  --Volcanopele (talk) 10:37, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Discovery date for Ganymede
Would you be interested in updating the dates for the Galilean satellites in Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons with appropriate references? RandomCritic (talk) 15:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. --Volcanopele (talk) 18:31, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! RandomCritic (talk) 19:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit War on Ganymede
Thankfully, the issue seems to be resolved, but you were edit warring on what was at the time WP:TFA, with six reverts, so I'm bringing this up at WP:AN3. I'm reporting User:Katydidit as well.--Noren (talk) 23:26, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Understood. Thank you for the notice.  --Volcanopele (talk) 05:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm closing both those AN3 reports since they're old enough to be considered stale. I remind you that the beauty and the horror of WP:3RR is that it doesn't care whether you're right - and the article being prominently featured doesn't alter that. dispute resolution (including talk page discussion, as you were doing) is sometimes frustratingly slow, but that's how it is. If a similar thing happens again on a frontpage article, you could post at WP:ANI to get quick input without feeling that you need to breach 3RR. Rd232 talk 12:33, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Thor
Replied at WT:DYK. Please do fix images. Materialscientist (talk) 23:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying images. Changed the image in Queu 6. Not sure about "Io with Thor pictured", suggestions are welcome. Sorry, I should get to you much earlier on that - just chain of events was such that someone else promoted those hooks and I was then hectically fixing them ;-) The original grayscale image of Thor is fine scientifically, but not appealing for non-specialists. Materialscientist (talk) 00:25, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with "Io pictured" or what you have "Io with Thor pictured", though I think without a detailed explanation, one too long for a hook, it maybe difficult to tell where Thor is in that image. Regardless, this image I think is more applicable to Thor. --Volcanopele (talk) 05:01, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your comments. My hunband and I drove to Fargo/Moorhead this weekend and I haunted libraries while he was at his meetings. I found very little information about the Saganagan Orogeny. (For some reason their libraries don't focus on northeastern Minnesota. LOL)

I believe it is one of the oldest orogenies. I will continue to search.

Again, thank you for your comments. I do appreciate them. Bettymnz4 (talk) 22:17, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Exploration of Io
Thanks for all your good work on the above (and other) articles. There's a bunch of issues identified at the FAC for this article. Hope you will be able to drop in to look at addressing them. Regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 02:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not sure why this failed at FAC. The point that some of the writing was kind of stilted an awkward is valid, but I thought we were making good progress fixing the prose. I suspect the fact that work on the article kind of halted for easter weekend may have been what did it in. I will keep trying to copyedit some sections. I suspect it could be made ready to pass in a few weeks. It is hard to copyedit because it is long and technically detailed, but I think it is a great article that merits the work it will take to get it through.Rusty Cashman (talk) 19:45, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Come to the First Topeka Meetup, January 15!


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Tucson Spacefest Edit-a-thon Invitation
Hey there - Just running down the list of peeps who have Arizona userboxes, and was pleasantly surprised to see your familiar handle. My name is Maia and I'm friendly with a bunch of your colleagues. BTW, you may enjoy the Ski Enceladus userbox I created recently :) Anyhoo... I'm organizing a meetup during Spacefest in two weeks as a way to a) honor Sally Ride; b) get some more women in the space sciences represented on Wikipedia; and c) encourage new Wiki editors and meet with experienced editors in the area. I'm a member of the Boston/New England Wiki chapter and have run a couple of successful edit-a-thons within the past year. I'm actually hoping to secure some Wikipedia swag to bring to the event... Anyway, here's the edit-a-thon landing page on Spacefest, and below you can find the event page itself. If you're around and can join us, I'd love to meet you! Even if not, if you know anyone who might be interested, please send them our way. Cheers and thanks. Girona7 (talk) 20:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

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Enceladus
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Women in Red World Contest
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Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox feature on Mars
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Opinion request
Hello colleague,

I am interested in the Middle Ages too.

I created Category:Medieval civilizations which is part of Category:Civilizations by time. The former is nominated for deletion and at the moment the vote is 2:0 in favor of deletion. I am used to deletions, but this time I am stunned. I do not believe there is no place for such a category. I believe that most people with interest in history would agree that civilizations existed in the Middle Ages. I ask people to contribute their opinion to the discussion. Regards,--Maxaxa (talk) 02:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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