I just need some info on the little dipper constelation...  Anyone?
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The two Bears, Ursa Major and this constellation Ursa Minor and the whole Northern Hemisphere sky, are seen to revolve around a star that doesn't appear to move; Polaris, the North Star; located at the tip of the tail of the Little bear or Little Dipper and the orientation of the bear figures changes dramatically through the course of the night. From earliest times the two bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, have been paired together. With the exception of Polaris, the seven stars making up the Little Dipper, or Lesser Bear, are much fainter than the seven star making up Ursa Major, the Big Dipper, which is the most prominent group of stars in the sky. Although the Little Bear is famous as the home of the Pole Star, it was in fact invented in the 6th century B.C. as a guide to sailors and was created from the Dragon's wing, now long forgotten, which it replaced. The Little Bear is enclosed on three sides by the coils of the Dragon. To many cultures Ursa Minor was the Hole in which the earth's axle found its bearing,\n\nThe stars of Ursa Minor appear on the planisphere of Denderah as an enormous hippopotamus (the bear being unknown in Egypt), or sometimes as a crocodile, who devoured the dead who had lived a life of dreadful sin. Some of these stars have also been identified as the goddess Hesmut, a mother goddess and midwife of ancient Egypt, or Shesemtet, the Raging Mother.
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Ursa Major, the big dipper, and Ursa Minor, the little dipper
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After looking through countless references I can only give you a vague answer to your question. Orion was named by the ancient Greeks; according to their mythology he was a giant hunter and one of the few male friends of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Depending on what version of the story you hear, Orion gets killed by a giant scorpion (Scorpius). Artemis mourns his death and places him in the sky to commemorate him. \n\nThe origins of the names "Big Dipper" and "Little Dipper" are even more difficult to come by. The Big Dipper seems to just be the common name for the asterism because that's what it looks like. The Big Dipper has been called everything from "the Plow", to "the Weasel" to "the Drinking Gourd" and of course is also part of the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear) again from Greek Mythology. \n\nI can only guess that Ursa Minor, (the Little Bear) was named the Little Dipper because it too kind of looks like one, but also because the two patterns of stars are associated with each other from Greek Mythology. So when the Great Bear was called "the Big Dipper" it just made sense to call the Little Bear the "Little Dipper". But really Tom, your guess is as good as mine. \n\nCheck out http://www.csulb.edu/~gordon/constel.html for a list of origin stories for other constellations and asterisms.
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Yes I have.  They featured an article about it on Space.com and the NASA website.  Seems that many other Kuiper belt objects have mutiple satellites (moons) as well.  It will be interesting what the New Horizon probe will find when it gets out to Pluto and beyond.  I am hoping the launch will be on time so it can use the gravitational assist from Jupiter to get there quicker.  There was a NASA site where a person could get their name placed on a CD that is launching with the probe.  Several of my friends and I signed up and our names are on that disk now.
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Don't have it handy,but it'sjust a little denser than water, from what I remember. Check www.nasa.gov. They have lots of planetary info!
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http://theamericanminerva.com/thetanuepsilon/00Main/Main.html CHECK THIS WEBSITE OUT REALLY RESOURCEFUL
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You know people take things so lightly on yahoo answers when all you was trying to do was get some insight. I don' know if I can help you but I'll try. The first one sounds like a mediator is going to hit the planet. The 2 sounds like after the mediator hits that there will be no more water on the earth. The 3 one sounds like the earth will not be safe to live here anymore and we would have to find another planet to live on. The 4 sounds like we don't know about it now but their will probably be something like that gadget to help us live on these other planets. I think that in your past life these things has happen to you or else you wouldn't be dreaming these kind of things. And in the future it just might be that the stars connect because in the bible it speaks of the sun turning black so I think that you are on point. And that is why they keep going to space they just not telling us why. Come on they already know what's up there yet they keep going back. And why are they going back to see if they can live up there. If you remember a long time ago there was talk about going to space and having kids up there but only the rich people could go or something to that effect. e-mail me don't put it out there like that cause these kids don't know how to handle it.
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Try looking it up on Galileo or EBSCOHost database.
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I have an ebook of their entire history. 550 pages all about them and their practices. There's a lot more on them than people think, far too much to go into here.\n\nI also know a small collection of Freemasons, and wheni identified one he has actually takenme into his confidence, which is how i got the eBook. \n\nLife can be great when you know the right people!!
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Due North.  There are a couple of ways to find it.  One is to face due north and look up a bit.  If you know your latitude, you can find the North Star by looking up that many degrees from the horizon.  Hence, if you're in SF like me, the North Star will be ~38 degrees above the horizon.\n\nThe easier way is to find the Big Dipper\nhttp://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/constellations/bigdipper.gif\nWhich is a prominent and easy constellation to find in the northern sky.  Then, close one eye, stretch out your arm, and spread your fingers so that the front two stars (across from the "handle") are each covered by one of your fingers.  Those front two stars point right at the North Star.  Trac out in a straight line from those two stars, going "up" (if you imagine the dipper being oriented in a way that it would hold water) for a distance that is five times the distance between those two front stars.  So if you swing your arm along, placing the lower finger where the top finger just was, and keeping the spacing of your fingers steady, it will direct you to a bright star.  That star is the North Star.
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Use the North Star like you would a compass.\n\nThe North Star is a title of the star best suited for navigation northwards. A candidate must be visible from Earth and circumpolar to the north celestial pole. The current one is Polaris. It is the star at the end of the "handle" of the Little Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Minor.\n\nThe North Star has been historically used by explorers to determine their latitude. At any point north of the equator the angle from the horizon to the North Star (its altitude) is the same as the latitude from which that angle was taken. For example, the angle to the North Star for a person at 30° latitude will be about 30°.\n\nPolaris has a visual magnitude of 1.97 (second magnitude). In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris. The first magnitude star Vega will be the North Star by AD 14,000.\n\nCurrently, there is no South Star as useful as Polaris; the faint star σ Octantis is closest to the south celestial pole. However, the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, points towards the south pole.
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For a more detailed discussion, try Wikipedia.  There is applicable information in both the History and Mythology sections.  Happy Star Gazing.
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Here is a very simple and precise explanation with good illustrations\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonorange/
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http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/pluto.html
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Shoemaker 1, tonight!\n\nVery comprehensive calender of comets below:\n\nhttp://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html\n\nBut for a simple answer, look at this website, it seems that today (7th June) we will see  the brilliantly named 102P/Shoemaker 1, which you can read about at the second of the two below links, and the third link is wikipedia's little info page on it (the important info is in the table at the right-hand side of the page)\n\nhttp://cometography.com/current_comets.html\nhttp://cometography.com/pcomets/102P.html\n\nSo get that telescope out! :-) Hope that helps
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search here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_%28astrology%29
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read these:\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html\nhttp://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm