Articles by Hubert Crowell

Stories about things the interest me

Rock Town Boxwork

Rock Town is a large bolder out crop on the top of Pigeon Mountain, in north Georgia. Boxwork is normally referred to as a cave formation, found mostly in Wind Cave South Dakota. I was surprised to find boxwork formations on top of a bolder in Rock Town.

Outward Bound

September 5, 2007 marks 30 years of space travel for our most distant spacecraft. Voyager 1 reached 9,648,812,870 miles from earth on the 30th anniversary of it's September 5, 1977 launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket.

We are not alone, Asteroids

When one of these objects is found to have a Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID), with earth that places the orbit on a possible collision course with our earth, there is a lot of excitement and publicity.

Why is our Solar System flat?

Have you ever wondered why our solar system is flat. Except of course for comets and a few asteroids, all of our major planets orbit on the same plane, within a few degrees. I have often wondered about this and have searched for possible causes with no results until the first of this year (2008).

Earthquake

January 12, 2010 4:53 PM, 15 miles WSW of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, the ground began to shake with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

More Articles by Hubert Crowell

My Poems
Just My Opinion
Work Place and Wealth
Support and Technical Advice
Construction Related
Stories to make you laugh
Things that make you think
Articles about Caving
Prospecting Stories
Growing up in the Fifties
Stories about special People in my life