From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 16:28:53 UTC
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>Subject: Surprising results from Deep Impact mission / Tiny moon may hold
>ingredients of life
>Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:28:18 -0400
>
> NEWSALERT: Wednesday, September 7, 2005 @ 1431 GMT
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>DEEP IMPACT COMET MISSION PRODUCING SURPRISES
>---------------------------------------------
>Researchers involved in NASA's Deep Impact mission have been piecing
>together data from the July 4th collision with comet Tempel 1 and finding
>surprising results. For example, the comet's nucleus heart has a very
>fluffy structure that is weaker than a bank of powder snow. The fine dust
>of the comet is held together by gravity. However, that gravity is so
>weak, if you could stand on the bank and jump, you would launch yourself
>into space.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06deepimpact/
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>
>TINY ENCELADUS MAY HOLD INGREDIENTS OF LIFE
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>Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is "absolutely" a highlight of the Cassini
>mission and should be targeted in future searches for life, says the
>leader of the spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050906enceladus.html
>
>
>EVIDENCE SAYS SOME COMETS MAY HAVE BECOME ASTEROIDS
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>Some asteroids that have comet-like orbits may actually be comets that
>have lost gases and other easily vaporized substances, according to a NASA
>research team. The team studied infrared light from 55 asteroids using
>NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to better understand possible links between
>asteroids and comets.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05comets/
>
>
>ILS PROTON TO BOOST MASSIVE SATELLITE FOR DIRECTV
>-------------------------------------------------
>Following the successful launch of the DIRECTV 8 satellite in May, DIRECTV
>has contracted with International Launch Services for another mission on a
>Proton vehicle. The launch, on a Russian-built Proton/Breeze M rocket, is
>planned for second quarter 2007 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
>Kazakhstan.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06directv/
>
>
>ARIANESPACE TO LAUNCH THAICOM 5
>-------------------------------
>The THAICOM 5 satellite launch contract was signed at World Satellite
>Business Week 2005 by Dr. Dumrong Kasemset, Executive Chairman of Shin
>Satellite Plc, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of
>Arianespace. THAICOM 5 is slated for an Ariane 5 launch in 2006 from
>Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06thaicom5/
>
>
>$14.2-MILLION AWARD FOR GIANT TELESCOPE
>---------------------------------------
>The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has received the first year of
>a four-year, $14.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to
>design and develop a world-class, 8.4-meter telescope scheduled for
>completion in 2012. The LSST will image an area of the sky roughly fifty
>times that of the full moon every 15 seconds, opening a movie-like window
>on objects that change or move on rapid time scales - supernovae
>explosions which can be seen halfway across the universe, nearby asteroids
>which might potentially strike Earth, and faint objects in the outer solar
>system, far beyond Pluto.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05lsst/
>
>
>STATEMENT ISSUED ON FUTURE OF UK PLANETARY SCIENCES
>---------------------------------------------------
>The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has issued a statement calling for
>continued growth in funding of planetary sciences in the UK and for more
>universities to consider establishing planetary science departments.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05ras/
>
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>The links below make it easier for AOL users to reach our stories.
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06deepimpact/">DEEP IMPACT
>COMET MISSION PRODUCING SURPRISES</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050906enceladus.html">TINY
>ENCELADUS MAY HOLD INGREDIENTS OF LIFE</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05comets/">EVIDENCE SAYS SOME
>COMETS MAY HAVE BECOME ASTEROIDS</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06directv/">ILS PROTON TO
>BOOST MASSIVE SATELLITE FOR DIRECTV</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06thaicom5/">ARIANESPACE TO
>LAUNCH THAICOM 5</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05lsst/">$14.2-MILLION AWARD
>FOR GIANT TELESCOPE</a>
>
><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/05ras/">STATEMENT ISSUED ON
>FUTURE OF UK PLANETARY SCIENCES</a>
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