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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-02-03, Page 88 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Lancers prep for playoff run against Tiverton Ean Moffatt Lucknow Lancers The Lucknow Lancers are gearing up for the play- offs. This year the Lancers find themselves in a four - game round robin series against Milverton, Tillsonburg, Shelburne and Ripley. The top four teams move on to the semi finals. At press time the schedule had not been final- ized. As for now, the Lancers are hosting Tillsonburg on Saturday Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Ripley on Feb. 20 at 7:30 Lucknow Legends in action during hockey day On Jan. 23 the Legends put on Women's hockey day in Lucknow, beating Clifford 7-3. After a back and forth first two periods with goals from Laura Stan- ley, Julie Hamilton and Magggie Young with assists to Marlee Alton, Gina Murray, Diane Bush- ell, Hamilton and Justine Hart. The Legends stepped it up in the third for the homecrowd with four goals from Stanley, Bushell (2) and Hart. Assists going to Marissa jolley, Murray, Hamilton and Katie Feagn. The next day the Leg- ends travelled to Stratford for a disappointing 5-2 loss. Feagan scored from Young and Bushell and Robin McDonagh unas- sisted. This past Saturday the Legends hosted Mt.Brydges. The Legends took the lead in the second period with a goal by Stan- ley from Murray and Missy Kuik. Mt. Brydges tied it up halfway into the third and in the last three minutes the Legends managed to scrounge up three quick goals by Murray from Young, and Dru Austin unassisted and then Austin once again from Feagan. Great goaltending as always from Riley Aitch- ison and Terri Allen. pm. More details will follow next week. Go to www.woaas- rhockey.com for all the play- off schedule. The Lancers also have a fundraiser planned for March 25-26 as it is the 10th annual 3 -on -3 tournament. In other news the team would like to congratulate Ricky and Michelle Andrew on their recent marriage in Jamaica. Here is to a life of love and happiness and hopefully a few more years of Lancer hockey. SPORTS BRIEF Lucknow hockey scores The Lucknow Sepoy Novice took part in the South Bruce MHA Greg Dietz Memorial Tourna- ment on Sunday Jan. 31. They played an excel- lent toumament, winning two out of three games, making it to the "A" Division Championship. Game 1 vs. Goderich Sailors winning 3-2 Goals - Annan Moffat 1, Grayden McNee 1, Grace Taylor 1 Assists - Travis Vaughan 2, Colton Maki 1, Moffat 1 Game 2 vs Ripley Wolves winning 8-0 Goals - Grayden McNee 1, Nelson Helm 3, Annan Moffat 1, Travis Vaughan 2, Andrew Metski 1 Assists - Helm 2, Grace Taylor 1, Vaughan 1, Taylor Dalton 1, Colton Maki 1 Shutout for Joel Hogan Game 3 vrs Howick Hornets 4-3 loss Goals - Colton Maki 1, Nel- son Helm 1, Annan Moffat 1 Assists - Andrew Metski 1, Quinn Stan- ley 1, Helm 1, Moffat 1 The Lucknow Sepoy Novice hosted the Wing - ham Ironmen Saturday Jan. 30, winning 6-0. Goals - Brody Gibson 2, Nelson Helm 4. Assists - Quinn Stanley 1, Annan Moffat 2, Grace Taylor 1, Grayden McNee 1, Taylor Dalton 1 Another shutout for Goalie Joel Hogan! Bluewater Astronomy: A New Planet? Maybe... John Hlynialuk Bluewater Astronomical Society Ever since Pluto was kicked out of the planet dub in 2006, at almost every talk on astronomy I give, I have been forced to explain why the deed was done. The audience has never been very sympathetic and I usually get a mixed reception, espe- cially when I tell them that I agree with the decision. In fact, Pluto should never have been in the planet club in the first place. Unfortunately, its unsuit- ability was not determined until it was much too late to do any- thing about it. If you still love Pluto, please bear with me for the rest of this article. I don't expect to change your mind, but that is okay. The problem has always been with Pluto's size. For 50 years after its discovery, the diameter of the planet was in doubt. Measurements were made difficult because even in the biggest telescopes, Pluto was just a point of light and not a disk that could be measured like the other planets. The planet was thought to have an icy surface and its reflectivity would affect the size -clean ice would give larger diameters than dirty ice when the calcula- tionswere done. So estimates of ice cover and reflectivity were always required and affected the final value. Published fig- ures ranged from 1,150 km to 4,000 km and even in 1997, you could find either answer depending on whether you read Scientific American or went by the Los Alamos National Laboratoryvalue. So by 2006, when the value for Pluto's diameter of 2,300 km had been verified, (confirmed recently to be 2,370 km) it became clear that an object about half the size of our Moon (3,475 km) could not and should not retain status as a planet. But in the uproar of Plu- to's departure from the dub, the correctness of the decision was fogged by emotion. Further- more, it was forgotten that this was not the first time that a solar system object had been put into a different category. In the interval from 1801 to 1808, four new "planets" had been discovered by astrono- mers, and for a time the solar system had 12 planets. Yes, a nice, even dozen! Then in the latter half of the 19th century, more "planets" started to be found in record numbers, - especially after photography became common. One astronomer, on his own, discovered 248 this way. It was not surprising that these new "planets" soon were being called the "vermin of the skies". It was obvious that these objects -all smaller than half the current size ofPluto, were a previ- ously unrecognized group of solar system objects and it was M 2 0 MAY MeCONVILLE OMIU insurance brokers ltd.. May McConville Omni Insurance Brokers would like to congratulate Janice Foran on her retirement and thank her for her years of hard work and service for our company. Janice will be missed and we wish her all the best in her retirement. logical to put them into a ne w cat egory. We now refer to them as "asteroids'; with a current num- ber estimate of about 750,000. Can you image the mne- monic kids would have had to recall to name even a small fraction of these? You have probably heard about the recent announcement by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown from Caltech that there might be another planet in our solar system. This new planet could replace Pluto as Planet Nine and we would be back to a full complement once again. The news media has been full of reports of this "discovery" and Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media have been a -biz✓ for the last several weeks. Not lost on most of those provid- ing the news is the fact that Mike Brown was at the centre of the Pluto debate and even wrote a bookin 2012 called: "Howl Killed Pluto andWhyItHad ItComing" [Random House 2012]. No minc- ingofwords there. But there is abig caveat in this announcement that bears repeating. This is not the con- firmed discovery of a new planet in our solar system. Brown and Batygin did computer modeling onagroup of objects inthe family that Pluto belongs to and found an interesting similarity of orbit characteristics that might have been caused by an un -discov- ered planet at the edge of our solar system. The math appears to be convincing to those that understand such things and the paper was accepted for publica- tion in the Astronomical Journal for Jan 20, 2016. But this "discovery" is unlike the many of the past discoveries of planets, asteroids, comets, moons of planets, etc. which were done by relatively modest instruments. The planet cur- rently no. 8, Uranus, for exam- ple, was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel with a home- made telescope having a 6 -inch mirror. Modern amateur astronomers consider a 6 -inch to be a small telescope and reg- ularly use telescopes of twice Lucknow Town and Country Bowling for Jan. 28 Town and Country Bowl- ing Scores are in for Jan. 28. Games over 200: Lois Chaput -208 Games over 175: Evans Helm -197, Ed Dahonick - 184, Lois Chaput - 183, Anita Elliott -183, Pat Livingston -176. High Single Ladies: Lois Chaput - 208 High Double Ladies: Lois Chaput - 391 High Single Men: Evans Helm - 197 High Double Men: Ed Dahonick -342 Team STANDINGS/ POINTS Pansies -34, Tulips -28, Snowdrops -27, Daisies - 26, Hyacinths -26, Daffo- dils -21 this aperture. The Bluewater Astronomical Society often uses a 28 -inch aperture telescope at the ES Fox Observatory (weather permitting). In fact, this past year, we spotted and photographed Pluto on several occasions. Even an 8 -inch can be use to view Pluto but it is close to the limit of visibility with an instrument of this size. It was relatively easy in the 28. In contrast, only a few of the largest professional telescopes with several metres of aperture are capable of spotting this planet, should it exist. The job is even more difficult since the region of skywhere Planet Nine could be located is a sizeable chunk of the heavens. And although there will likely be large telescopes geared up to do the search, these instruments have observing programs ongo- ing that are important on their own and the telescopes may not be easily freed up for a planet hunt that has no guaran- tee of payoff, especially if it becomes a prolonged search. Lucknow Monday Night Mixed Bowling Bowling Scores for Mon- day Night Mixed are in from Jan. 11, 2016. Scores over 200: Anita Elli- ott - 212 High Single Ladies: Lisa Lawler - 227 High Single Men: Charles Green - 196 High Triple Ladies: Anita Elliott - 558 High Triple Men: Charles Green -511