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The last data download received from the KiwiSat 202 satellite transmitter glued to the emperor penguin’s back. The lack of even a single satellite message since last Friday indicates that the transmitter has not broken the surface of the sea at all since then. But sadly no data from other satellite transmitters have been received by Sirtrack without any apparent problems. Intense solar flare activity since 9 September played havoc with satellite communications, leading to widespread speculation that this was blocking transmission of the transmitter signals.
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due to the penguin diving, or the transmitter falling off and sinking, or the transmitter being inside a larger predator), to not enough signals being received (4 or more signals are required per satellite pass for a plotable fix), through to technical failures at the satellite or terrestrial receiving station, or in the software used to filter and map the locations.įor a while, it appeared that an extra-terrestrial higher authority was responsible for the lack of signals. These range from the transmitter no longer sending a signal (transmitter failure or damage), to signals not being received by the satellite (e.g. There are a multitude of reasons why the signal from the transmitter could fail to appear on our screens, and most of them have been mentioned in comments on the previous blog or in Sirtrack NZEmperor tweets. The emperor penguin’s path from release on 4 September until transmissions ceased on 9 September. The last signal was received at 20:11:51 UTC on 8 September (about 8:12 am on 9 September, NZ Standard Time). For the next 24 hours he continued on an easterly track. Not surprisingly, the national media have paid no attention in the one ongoing New Zealand story that is the focus of international interest: a missing penguin.īlog #9 “ Heading home, or heading east?” described the south-easterly track that the penguin took for the first 4 days after his release, from 4 September to the (NZ time) morning of 8 September. Endless column-inches and air-time were filled with discussion of whether tyro Israel Dagg had done enough with his 2-try haul to displace veteran fullback Mils Muliaina, whether captain Richie McCaw has lost his mojo, and the truly big question of whether the All Blacks (the most successful international sports team in world history) can win back the William Webb Ellis trophy that they last held following the inaugural 1987 tournament. A spectacular opening ceremony at Eden Park was followed by the top-ranked All Blacks’ clash with Tonga. One story has dominated New Zealand media since Friday 9 September 2011. Israel Dagg scores the opening try at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Previous blogs on the penguin were posted between 23 June and 8 September. Colubrine was first recorded in English in the 1520s.Curator of terrestrial vertebrates Dr Colin Miskelly tells the tenth instalment of the unfolding story of the emperor penguin that went where none had gone before. From serpēns, literally meaning “crawling,” English has serpent and serpentine.
From dracō, originally a borrowing from Ancient Greek, we have dragon as well as draconian and the name of an antagonist in the Harry Potter book series. In addition to coluber, two other Latin terms meaning “snake” that have descendants in English were dracō and serpēns, which you may also recognize as constellations. Much as English has multiple names for wolverines, as we learned in yesterday’s Word of the Day podcast about quickhatch, the Romans had several words for snakes. Colubrine “of or resembling a snake” derives from the Latin adjective colubrīnus, of the same meaning, from coluber “snake.” Despite the similar spelling, coluber is not the source of coil, the circular gathering movement that typifies snakes coil derives instead from the Latin verb colligere “to gather together,” and coil’s resemblance to colubrine is a happy coincidence.
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