Cleaning out the inbox!

Time to dump the inbox out a bit and get caught up on a few things.

We start with 2012 DA14.
Just what is 2012 DA14?
It is an asteroid that will come close to earth on February 15 (Happy Birthday,Mom) that will be within the orbit of the moon and inside the orbit of  geosynchronous satellites (they are 26,000 miles in the air) on that day,
It will not hit earth,it will not even be visible to the naked eye,but these things always bring to mind how we are truly one shot in the dark away from a world altering event.
Why this (asteroid impact) is not taken as seriously as it deserves to be,is mind boggling to me.
I really need to get a nice telescope sometime!

 From a month or so,Voyager 1 is preparing to leave the solar system and is the most distant object that man has made from in earth in history.
That's reasonably common knowledge,but as Voyager hits the border,it is meeting some unusual particles from outside the solar system as it penetrates the edge.
The magnetic "pings" were different than scientists expected  and will take some time to figure out (more along the lines of a guess) just what Voyager is meeting.
Voyager runs on a computer that,believe it or not,has the total amount of memory that is just enough to run the trip meter on your car!
Freaky!

The Cavaliers, and I know,I have been lax in Cavalier coverage, made a trade with the Memphis Grizzlies that basically gave Memphis salary cap relief and Cleveland added a piece to help the current team and a nod towards the future.
Cleveland sent seldom used forward Jon Leuer to Memphis for Marreese Speights,Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby.
The kicker a number one pick that might not be used until 2019,but eventually will be an unprotected lottery pick.
Speights will help right away with the loss of Anderson Varejao for the season as an inside body while Ellington could be helpful as a three point bomber off the bench and might enable the Cavaliers to move Daniel Gibson at the trade deadline.Selby is a young player that will either sit,be sent to Canton or eventually get released.
The pick is the big addition in the deal as Memphis is playing for the moment and down the road that could be a huge addition to Cleveland basketball....

I've written before about Thunder Rumble and the work that is done by Old Friends,so I just wanted the chance to link to some recent pictures of Thunder Rumble by Connie Bush of Tiger Eye Photography.
Simply beautiful work.
Thunder also races his neighbor and former Travers winner Will's Way often and usually beats the younger horse.....

I'd just like to thank Danny Rosenbaum again for his time in doing another interview with us.
We will have another interview in the next week or so with someone that we have never had before and we have three more on the horizon with only one of them having done one in the past!
If you enjoy the interview series,I think the next month or so is going to be a good run!

That catches us up for now back later tonight as the Devils take on Washington at the Rock!