>From: "Astrobiology Magazine"<astronaut@astrobio.net>
>To: ljk4@msn.com
>Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine
>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:35:01 -0700
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>Crunching the Numbers
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1526.html
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>Maggie Turnbull, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution, has spent many years thinking about what kind of stars could harbor Earth-like planets. Her database of potentially habitable star systems could be used as a target list for NASA's forthcoming Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) mission. Turnbull presented a talk, "Remote Sensing of Life and Habitable Worlds: Habstars, Earthshine and TPF," at a NASA Forum for Astrobiology Research on March 14, 2005. This edited transcript of the lecture is part two of a four-part series.
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>The Eternal Lunar Day
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1525.html
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>An illuminated part of a lunar crater rim may be very close to the Moon's North pole and is a candidate for a peak of eternal sunlight. Such places could be key locations for future lunar outposts. The European Space Agency's SMART missions - Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - are designed to test new spacecraft technology and propulsion while visiting various places in the solar system.
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>Titan's Unexplored Country
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1524.html
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>NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moon Titan at a distance of 2,402 kilometers (1,493 miles) on Thursday, March 31. Cassini's multiple instruments are providing new views of the haze-enshrouded world. Titan is a prime target of the Cassini-Huygens mission because it is the only moon in our solar system with a thick, smoggy atmosphere.
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>Explaining Eccentricities
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1523.html
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>When astronomers discovered that the planets around Upsilon Andromedae had very strange orbits, they weren't sure what could have caused it. Researchers from Berkeley and Northwestern have developed a simulation that shows how an additional planet could have given the other planets the orbital kick they needed to explain their current eccentricities. If a similar planet had passed through our own Solar System early on, all our planets could be in wildly different orbits around the Sun.
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