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Description
English: Humorous illustration of science abstraction en:Spherical cow jumping over the moon.
Source

The image was created by Ingrid Kallick for the program cover of the 1996 annual meeting of the American Astronomical Association. An earlier version was created for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The artist gave permission for use to the University of Wisconsin Department of Astronomy. The STScI subsequently used the image.

http://www.ikallick.com
Author Ingrid Kallick (http://www.ikallick.com)
Permission
(Reusing this file)

Material credited to STScI on this site was created, authored, and/or prepared for NASA under Contract NAS 5-26555. Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. However, it is requested that in any subsequent use of this work NASA and STScI be given appropriate acknowledgement. STScI further requests voluntary reporting of all use, derivative creation, and other alteration of this work. Such reporting should be sent to [email protected]. http://www.stsci.edu/institute/Copyright

http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/16/images/cow.gif

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Original upload log

date/time username resolution size edit summary
20:15, 5 September 2006 User:ArmadilloFromHell 200×231 24 KB

Image description page history

link date/time username edit summary
[4] 01:56, 4 February 2008 User:ChristianBier
[5] 23:28, 10 September 2006 User:ArmadilloFromHell
[6] 21:55, 10 September 2006 User:Bouncey2k
[7] 22:57, 6 September 2006 User:ArmadilloFromHell
[8] 20:36, 5 September 2006 User:ArmadilloFromHell
[9] 20:15, 5 September 2006 User:ArmadilloFromHell (Material credited to STScI on this site was created, authored, and/or prepared for NASA under Contract NAS 5-26555. Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in)

Captions

Comic of a spherical cow as illustrated by a 1996 meeting of the American Astronomical Association, in reference to astronomy modeling.

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spherical cow

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image/gif

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current03:43, 4 February 2008Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 4 February 2008200 × 231 (24 KB)BetacommandBotmove approved by: User:ChristianBier This image was moved from Image:Cow.gif == Summary == Material credited to STScI on this site was created, authored, and/or prepared for NASA under Contract NAS 5-26555. Unless otherwise specifically stated

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