From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 1 07:13:31 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g11FDVc17163 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA01221 for bioastro-list; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:04:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe111.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.104]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01217 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:04:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:03:57 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.201] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: The Search for Exoplanets Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:03:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0011_01C1AB07.BBB64550" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2002 15:03:57.0336 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC2B7180:01C1AB31] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C1AB07.BBB64550 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EXO WORLDS - Distant Wanderers: The Search For Extra Solar Planets http://www.spacedaily.com/news/extrasolar-02c.html Paris - Feb 1, 2002 - Walk outside on any clear night and it's impossible= not to notice the many thousands of stars visible overhead. Although mo= st of us don't sit around pondering the ultimate fate of the universe, ou= r galaxy, or even our solar system as many as half of all sun-like stars = may harbor planetary systems. ---------- TERRADAILY - Climate change causes extreme changes to Antarctic Lakes http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-02c.html Cambridge - Feb 1, 2002 - Results from a 20-year study reveal dramatic ec= ological changes to lakes in Antarctica caused by a 1 C temperature incre= ase. - The Fine Balance Between The Atmosphere and Hydrosphere http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-02d.html Norwich - Feb 1, 2002 - The atmosphere and oceans exist in a delicate sta= te of balance according to research co-ordinated by the University of Eas= t Anglia (UEA) and published this month by the Natural Environment Resear= ch Council (NERC). - Looking for Life's Imprint -- Light Years Away http://www.spacedaily.com/news/extrasolar-02b.html - Calibrating The Human Impact Within Earth's Climate Record http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-02b.html - Simulating The Martian Surface At The Bottom Of The World http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-base-02a.html - Taking The Middle Class Route To Deep Space http://www.spacedaily.com/news/decadal-02a1.html ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C1AB07.BBB64550 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

EXO WORLDS
=
- Distant Wanderers: The Search For Extra Solar Planets

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/extrasolar-02c.html

Paris - Feb 1= , 2002 - Walk outside on any clear night and it's impossible not to notic= e the many thousands of stars visible overhead. Although most of us= don't sit around pondering the ultimate fate of the universe, our galaxy= , or even our solar system as many as half of all sun-like stars may harb= or planetary systems.

----------
TERRADAILY

- Climate ch= ange causes extreme changes to Antarctic Lakes

http://www.= spacedaily.com/news/climate-02c.html

Cambridge - Feb 1, 2002 - Res= ults from a 20-year study reveal dramatic ecological changes to lakes in = Antarctica caused by a 1 C temperature increase.

- The Fine Balanc= e Between The Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

http://www.spaced= aily.com/news/climate-02d.html

Norwich - Feb 1, 2002 - The atmosph= ere and oceans exist in a delicate state of balance according to research= co-ordinated by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and published this m= onth by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

- Loo= king for Life's Imprint -- Light Years Away
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/extra= solar-02b.html

- Calibrating The Human Impact Within Earth's C= limate Record
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-02b.html

-= Simulating The Martian Surface At The Bottom Of The World
http://www.= spacedaily.com/news/mars-base-02a.html

- Taking The Middle Class R= oute To Deep Space
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/decadal-02a1.html

------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C1AB07.BBB64550-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 1 07:59:14 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g11FxDc00989 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA03478 for bioastro-list; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:51:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe127.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.120]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03474 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:51:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:50:49 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.201] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: An Open Letter to the Australian Federal Government from International Scien Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:50:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0018_01C1AB0E.42172730" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2002 15:50:49.0886 (UTC) FILETIME=[389483E0:01C1AB38] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0018_01C1AB0E.42172730 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Peiser Benny Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:39 AM To: cambridge-conference Subject: An Open Letter to the Australian Federal Government from Interna= tional Scientists An Open Letter to the Australian Federal Government from International Scientists To: The Hon John Howard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia The Hon Peter McGauran, MP, Minister for Science The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson, MP, Minister for Education, Science and Traini= ng Senator the Hon Robert Hill, Minister for Defence The Hon Dr David Kemp, MP, Minister for the Environment and Heritage Australia's contribution to Spaceguard Spaceguard is the name given to an international effort to search the ski= es for asteroids that might collide with the Earth. The name was coined by S= ir Arthur C Clarke in a 1973 novel that described how mankind set up an asteroid detection and defence network after a large asteroid struck Italy and devastated southern Europe. Since the novel was written = the risks and grave consequences of asteroid impacts have been recognised and studied. Scientists around the globe are now working to ensure that Clark= e's scenario of a sudden, deadly impact does not occur. The United States is the main contributor to the search effort, with seve= ral telescopes dedicated to Spaceguard. Japan recently constructed a new telescope facility for Spaceguard work and Europe is in the process of setting up search telescopes and the vital support systems to analyse the data from the searches. Rob McNaught from Siding Spring in New South Wales runs the only professional asteroid tracking project in the southern hemisphere. This operation is funded mostly by the United States and is associated with th= e Australian National University. It was set up in recognition of the need = for Spaceguard telescopes in the southern hemisphere. Gordon Garradd, an astronomer from Loomberah in New South Wales, receives some funds from NA= SA for critical southern hemisphere follow-up observations using a home-made telescope. However, a much greater search effort, including a larger telescope, is needed to detect asteroids that pass through southern skies. It would cos= t several million dollars to set up a suitable facility in Australia but so= me of this might be covered by contributions of equipment from the USA. Operational costs should be less than $1 million per year. This is a high= ly cost effective investment in the prevention of loss of life and severe economic damage from asteroid impacts. McNaught and Garradd were previously in a team of Australian astronomers, led by Dr Duncan Steel, who searched for asteroids between the late 1980s and 1996. They found about one third of new threatening asteroids discove= red during this period, demonstrating Australian expertise and the importance= of searching southern skies. Australian government funding for the project w= as withdrawn in 1996 and the team disbanded. The United Nations and the OECD have recognised the potential hazard to o= ur civilisation from asteroid impacts. This month the OECD is looking at the issue as part of its Global Science Forum and recently asked developed nations to indicate their plans to contribute to the Spaceguard effort. A major global Spaceguard effort could provide decades of warning prior t= o an impact. This would be sufficient time to refine the space technology needed to nudge a threatening asteroid into a harmless orbit, or to evacu= ate the predicted impact area. Without Spaceguard there would be too little warning to prevent a disaster. This is clearly demonstrated by the recent close approach of a 300m wide asteroid. It was discovered only a few days before it passed by the Earth and, had it been on a collision course, the= re is little that could have been done to prevent possibly millions of casualties when an area the size of Tasmania would have been devastated. We note that a spokesperson for Science Minister Peter McGuaran said that the Government would look into renewing the funding of a dedicated Australian Spaceguard programme (The Age, 9th January). We welcome this reassessment of the issue and look forward to Australia rejoining the international effort to deal with the asteroid threat. Signatories: Paul Abell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Olga T. Aksenova, Blagoveschensk State University, Russia Gennady V. Andreev, Astronomical Observatory of Tomsk State University, Russia John Anfinogenov, Tunguska Preserver, Siberia, Russia Yana Anfinogenova, Siberian State Midical University, Russia David Asher, Bisei Spaceguard Center, Japan Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory, UK Mike Baillie, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland Michael J Barlow, University College London, UK Andrea Boattini, IAS, Area Ricerca CNR Tor Vergata, Italy Jiri Borovicka, Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republ= ic Mark Boslough, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Peter Brown, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, Canada Larisa Budaeva, Tomsk State University, Siberia, Russia Andrea Carusi, IAS, Area Ricerca CNR Tor Vergata, Italy Silvano Casulli, Colleverde di Guidonia Observatory, Italy Clark R. Chapman, Southwest Research Institute, USA Andrew Cheng, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Paul Davies, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University, Australia Ann Druyan, CEO, Cosmos Studios, USA Alan Fitzsimmons, Queen's University Belfast, UK Giuseppe Forti, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy Luigi Foschini, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Italy Lou Friedman, The Planetary Society, USA Michael J. Gaffey, Space Studies, University of North Dakota, USA Jon Giorgini, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Valentina Gorbatenko, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia Vic Gostin, Dept.Geology & Geophysics, University of Adelaide, Australia Tom Gehrels, The University of Arizona, USA Ian Griffin, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA Valentin Grigore, The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM), Romania Christian Gritzner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Gerhard J. Hahn, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Peter Haines, University of Tasmania, Australia Eleanor Helin, NEAT Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Nigel Holloway, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority & Spaceguard UK Ola Karlsson, UDAS Program, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Sweden Colin Keay, The University of Newcastle, Australia Bob Kobres, University of Georgia, USA Natal'ya V.Kolesnikova, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Leif Kahl Kristensen, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark Karl S. Kruszelnicki, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Austra= lia Evgeniy M. Kolesnikov, Moscow State University, Russia Korado Korlevic, Visnjan Observatory - Spaceguard HR, Croatia Eugeny Kovrigin, Tomsk State University, Siberia, Russia Richard Kowalski - Quail Hollow Observatory, USA Yurij Krugly, Astronomical Observatory of Kharkiv National University, Ukraine David H. Levy, Jarnac Observatory, USA Dmitrij Lupishko, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine Terry Mahoney, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain Brian Marsden, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA Bruce Mackenzie, National Space Society, USA Ilan Manulis, The Israeli Astronomical Association, Israel Austin Mardon, Antarctic Institute of Canada Jean-Luc Margot, California Institute of Technology, USA Gianluca Masi, Bellatrix Observatory, Italy Alain Maury, CNRS, France John McFarland, Armagh Observatory, UK Natalya Minkova, Tomsk State University, Russia Joe Montani The University of Arizona, USA Darrel Moon, Oxnard College, California, USA Thomas G. Mueller, Max-Planck-Institut, Garching, Germany Bill Napier, Armagh Observatory, UK Chernykh Nikolaj, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Crimea, Ukraine Steve Ostro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Trevor Palmer, Nottingham Trent University, UK Benny Peiser, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Joaquin Perez, Universidad de Alcala, Spain Paul Roche, University of Glamorgan, UK Maria Eugenia Sansaturio, University of Valladolid, Spain Lutz D. Schmadel, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg, Germany Hans Scholl, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France Vladimir A. Shefer, Astronomical Observatory, Tomsk State University, Rus= sia Carolyn Shoemaker, Lowell Observatory, USA Vadim A. Simonenko, Space Shield Foundation, Russia S Fred Singer, University of Virginia, USA Giovanni Sostero, Remanzacco observatory, Italy Reiner M. Stoss, Starkenburg Observatory, Germany Jay Tate, International Spaceguard Information Centre, UK Luciano Tesi, Osservatorio di San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy Jana Ticha, Klet Observatory, Czech Republic Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez , University Jaume, Spain Roy A. Tucker, Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Arizona, USA Harry Varvoglis, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Gerrit L. Verschuur, University of Memphis, USA Fiona Vincent, University of St.Andrews, Scotland, UK Dejan Vinkovic, University of Kentucky, USA Vladimir Vorobyov, Pomor State University n.a. M.V. Lomonosov, Russia Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cardiff University, Wales, UK Gareth Williams, Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observato= ry, USA Don Yeomans, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Oleg M. Zaporozhets, Kamchatka State University, Russia Krzysztof Ziolkowski, Space Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland A PDF copy of the letter and press release can be viewed at http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/pr_oz_sg.pdf ------=_NextPart_001_0018_01C1AB0E.42172730 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: Peiser Benny

Sent: Friday,= February 01, 2002 10:39 AM

To:<= /B> cambridge-conference

Subject= : An Open Letter to the Australian Federal Government from Internatio= nal Scientists

An Open Letter to the Australian Fe= deral Government from International
Scientists

To:
The Hon J= ohn Howard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia
The Hon Peter McGauran, MP= , Minister for Science
The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson, MP, Minister for Edu= cation, Science and Training
Senator the Hon Robert Hill, Minister for= Defence
The Hon Dr David Kemp, MP, Minister for the Environment and H= eritage

Australia's contribution to Spaceguard

Spaceguard i= s the name given to an international effort to search the skies
for as= teroids that might collide with the Earth. The name was coined by Sir
= Arthur C Clarke in a 1973 novel that described how mankind set up an
a= steroid detection and defence network after a large asteroid
struck It= aly and devastated southern Europe. Since the novel was written the
ri= sks and grave consequences of asteroid impacts have been recognised andstudied. Scientists around the globe are now working to ensure that Cla= rke's
scenario of a sudden, deadly impact does not occur.

The U= nited States is the main contributor to the search effort, with severaltelescopes dedicated to Spaceguard. Japan recently constructed a newtelescope facility for Spaceguard work and Europe is in the process ofsetting up search telescopes and the vital support systems to analyse t= he
data from the searches.

Rob McNaught from Siding Spring in N= ew South Wales runs the only
professional asteroid tracking project in= the southern hemisphere. This
operation is funded mostly by the Unite= d States and is associated with the
Australian National University. It= was set up in recognition of the need for
Spaceguard telescopes in th= e southern hemisphere. Gordon Garradd, an
astronomer from Loomberah in= New South Wales, receives some funds from NASA
for critical southern = hemisphere follow-up observations using a home-made
telescope.

= However, a much greater search effort, including a larger telescope, isneeded to detect asteroids that pass through southern skies. It would c= ost
several million dollars to set up a suitable facility in Australia= but some
of this might be covered by contributions of equipment from = the USA.
Operational costs should be less than $1 million per year. Th= is is a highly
cost effective investment in the prevention of loss of = life and severe
economic damage from asteroid impacts.

McNaught= and Garradd were previously in a team of Australian astronomers,
led = by Dr Duncan Steel, who searched for asteroids between the late 1980s
= and 1996. They found about one third of new threatening asteroids discove= red
during this period, demonstrating Australian expertise and the imp= ortance of
searching southern skies. Australian government funding for= the project was
withdrawn in 1996 and the team disbanded.

The = United Nations and the OECD have recognised the potential hazard to ourcivilisation from asteroid impacts. This month the OECD is looking at t= he
issue as part of its Global Science Forum and recently asked develo= ped
nations to indicate their plans to contribute to the Spaceguard ef= fort.

A major global Spaceguard effort could provide decades of wa= rning prior to
an impact. This would be sufficient time to refine the = space technology
needed to nudge a threatening asteroid into a harmles= s orbit, or to evacuate
the predicted impact area. Without Spaceguard = there would be too little
warning to prevent a disaster. This is clear= ly demonstrated by the recent
close approach of a 300m wide asteroid. = It was discovered only a few days
before it passed by the Earth and, h= ad it been on a collision course, there
is little that could have been= done to prevent possibly millions of
casualties when an area the size= of Tasmania would have been devastated.

We note that a spokespers= on for Science Minister Peter McGuaran said that
the Government would = look into renewing the funding of a dedicated
Australian Spaceguard pr= ogramme (The Age, 9th January). We welcome this
reassessment of the is= sue and look forward to Australia rejoining the
international effort t= o deal with the asteroid threat.

Signatories:

Paul Abell, R= ensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Olga T. Aksenova, Blagoveschensk = State University, Russia
Gennady V. Andreev, Astronomical Observatory = of Tomsk State University,
Russia
John Anfinogenov, Tunguska Preser= ver, Siberia, Russia
Yana Anfinogenova, Siberian State Midical Univers= ity, Russia
David Asher, Bisei Spaceguard Center, Japan
Mark Bailey= , Armagh Observatory, UK
Mike Baillie, Queen's University, Belfast, N.= Ireland
Michael J Barlow, University College London, UK
Andrea Boa= ttini, IAS, Area Ricerca CNR Tor Vergata, Italy
Jiri Borovicka, Astron= omical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Mark Boslough, S= andia National Laboratories, USA
Peter Brown, Department of Physics an= d Astronomy, University of Western
Ontario, Canada
Larisa Budaeva, = Tomsk State University, Siberia, Russia
Andrea Carusi, IAS, Area Ricer= ca CNR Tor Vergata, Italy
Silvano Casulli, Colleverde di Guidonia Obse= rvatory, Italy
Clark R. Chapman, Southwest Research Institute, USA
= Andrew Cheng, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Paul Davies, Australian = Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University,
Australia
Ann Druyan= , CEO, Cosmos Studios, USA
Alan Fitzsimmons, Queen's University Belfas= t, UK
Giuseppe Forti, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, It= aly
Luigi Foschini, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica,= Italy
Lou Friedman, The Planetary Society, USA
Michael J. Gaffey, = Space Studies, University of North Dakota, USA
Jon Giorgini, Jet Propu= lsion Laboratory, USA
Valentina Gorbatenko, Tomsk Polytechnic Universi= ty, Russia
Vic Gostin, Dept.Geology & Geophysics, University of Ad= elaide, Australia
Tom Gehrels, The University of Arizona, USA
Ian G= riffin, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
Valentin Grigore, The R= omanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM),
Romania
Christian= Gritzner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Gerhard J. Hahn, = German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Peter Haines, University of Tas= mania, Australia
Eleanor Helin, NEAT Program, Jet Propulsion Laborator= y, USA
Nigel Holloway, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority & Sp= aceguard UK
Ola Karlsson, UDAS Program, Uppsala Astronomical Observato= ry, Sweden
Colin Keay, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Bob K= obres, University of Georgia, USA
Natal'ya V.Kolesnikova, Moscow State= University, Moscow, Russia
Leif Kahl Kristensen, Institute of Physics= and Astronomy, University of
Aarhus, Denmark
Karl S. Kruszelnicki,= School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Australia
Evgeniy M. Kol= esnikov, Moscow State University, Russia
Korado Korlevic, Visnjan Obse= rvatory - Spaceguard HR, Croatia
Eugeny Kovrigin, Tomsk State Universi= ty, Siberia, Russia
Richard Kowalski - Quail Hollow Observatory, USAYurij Krugly, Astronomical Observatory of Kharkiv National University,<= BR>Ukraine
David H. Levy, Jarnac Observatory, USA
Dmitrij Lupishko,= Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
Terry Mahoney, Instituto de Astr= ofisica de Canarias, Spain
Brian Marsden, Harvard-Smithsonian Center f= or Astrophysics, USA
Bruce Mackenzie, National Space Society, USA
I= lan Manulis, The Israeli Astronomical Association, Israel
Austin Mardo= n, Antarctic Institute of Canada
Jean-Luc Margot, California Institute= of Technology, USA
Gianluca Masi, Bellatrix Observatory, Italy
Ala= in Maury, CNRS, France
John McFarland, Armagh Observatory, UK
Natal= ya Minkova, Tomsk State University, Russia
Joe Montani The Unive= rsity of Arizona, USA
Darrel Moon, Oxnard College, California, USA
= Thomas G. Mueller, Max-Planck-Institut, Garching, Germany
Bill Napier,= Armagh Observatory, UK
Chernykh Nikolaj, Crimean Astrophysical Observ= atory, Crimea, Ukraine
Steve Ostro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
= Trevor Palmer, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Benny Peiser, Liverpool= John Moores University, UK
Joaquin Perez, Universidad de Alcala, Spai= n
Paul Roche, University of Glamorgan, UK
Maria Eugenia Sansaturio,= University of Valladolid, Spain
Lutz D. Schmadel, Astronomisches Rech= en-Institut Heidelberg, Germany
Hans Scholl, Observatoire de la Cote d= 'Azur, France
Vladimir A. Shefer, Astronomical Observatory, Tomsk Stat= e University, Russia
Carolyn Shoemaker, Lowell Observatory, USA
Vad= im A. Simonenko, Space Shield Foundation, Russia
S Fred Singer, Univer= sity of Virginia, USA
Giovanni Sostero, Remanzacco observatory, Italy<= BR>Reiner M. Stoss, Starkenburg Observatory, Germany
Jay Tate, Interna= tional Spaceguard Information Centre, UK
Luciano Tesi, Osservatorio di= San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy
Jana Ticha, Klet Observatory, Czech Rep= ublic
Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez , University Jaume, Spain
Roy A. Tuc= ker, Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Arizona, USA
Harry Varvoglis, Depar= tment of Physics, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
Gerr= it L. Verschuur, University of Memphis, USA
Fiona Vincent, University = of St.Andrews, Scotland, UK
Dejan Vinkovic, University of Kentucky, US= A
Vladimir Vorobyov, Pomor State University n.a. M.V. Lomonosov, Russi= a
Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Gareth Will= iams, Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
USA<= BR>Don Yeomans, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Oleg M. Zaporozhets, Ka= mchatka State University, Russia
Krzysztof Ziolkowski, Space Research = Centre, Warsaw, Poland

A PDF copy of the letter and press release = can be viewed at
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/pr_oz_sg.pdf

------=_NextPart_001_0018_01C1AB0E.42172730-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 1 23:31:33 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g127VWc18750 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id CAA16612 for bioastro-list; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:24:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe57.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.199]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA16608 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:24:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:24:24 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.224] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Annihilating Anthrax Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 02:24:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AB90.B0CFE720" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Feb 2002 07:24:24.0782 (UTC) FILETIME=[A40F56E0:01C1ABBA] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AB90.B0CFE720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: NASA Science News Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:13 AM To: NASA Science News Subject: Annihilating Anthrax NASA Science News for February 1, 2002 Research aimed at building better greenhouses in space has led to a devic= e that attacks and destroys airborne pathogens -- like Anthrax. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/01feb_anthrax.htm?list662745 --- You are currently subscribed to snglist as: ljk4@msn.com This is a free service. To UNSUBSCRIBE, or CHANGE your address on this service, go to http://science.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.asp?e=3Dljk4@msn.com or send a blank email to leave-snglist-662745K@snglist.msfc.nasa.gov. Tell a kid you know about NASA Kids Club -- they collect virtual trading = cards, trade them online, have their own e-mail account, and participate = in great learning activities for extra club points. Go to http://kids.msf= c.nasa.gov/Club/Login/SignUp.asp?sng for more info. If you need to get in touch with us directly, please go to http://science.nasa.gov/comments Home page: http://science.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AB90.B0CFE720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Subj= ect: Annihilating Anthrax

NASA Science News fo= r February 1, 2002

Research aimed at building better greenhouses i= n space has led to a device
that attacks and destroys airborne pathoge= ns -- like Anthrax.

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------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C1AB91.BCD27000-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Feb 4 20:22:54 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g154Mrc06513 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id XAA28203 for bioastro-list; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:02:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe86.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.228]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA28198 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:02:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:02:24 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.48] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: AstroAlert: News from VSNET Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:47:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1ADCD.DDFC3980" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2002 04:02:24.0475 (UTC) FILETIME=[EB0882B0:01C1ADF9] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1ADCD.DDFC3980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Makoto Uemura Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:32 PM To: variable-star@skypub.com Cc: vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp Subject: AstroAlert: News from VSNET =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Variable Stars =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D *** News from VSNET *** A very bright supernova SN 2002ap was discovered in M74. The peculiar nova V838 Mon experiences an unexpected eruption. For more detail information about these objects, see below, "VSNET Weekly Campaign Summary" of the last week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- VSNET (Variable Star Network) is an international variable star observi= ng network, covering various areas of novae, supernovae, cataclysmic variabl= es (CVs), X-ray transients, and other classical eruptive, pulsating, and eclipsing variables. VSNET is one of invited contributing organizations to the SkyPub AstroAlert system. The "News from VSNET", mainly focusing on recent remarkable activities = of CVs and related systems, is issued on a weekly basis, except on occasions of extremely urgent or transient events. Please refer to the VSNET Home Page for more details of events and objects listed. VSNET Home Page: http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/ VSNET provides a number of mailing lists, on which various news and top= ics are discussed. Subscriptions to the VSNET mailing lists are free of char= ge; please refer to the instruction on the above page if a reader needs more information of the list structure. CCD observations of such targets are a relatively easy task for a 20-40= cm telescope; simply take as many CCD frames (with exposure times 10-30 sec) as possible, spanning several hours per night. The only requirements are the weather and your patience! If you need more help on the observing technique, please feel free to ask on the vsnet-campaign list. We would sincerely appreciate volunteers who would join the VSNET Collaboration team to study the wonders of these exotic variable stars. To join the VSNET campaign collaborative list, send an e-mail to vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp (VSNET administrator) with a line "SUBSCRIBE vsnet-campaign." (VSNET campaign members are strongly recommended to subscribe to vsnet-al= ert at the same time). Regards, Taichi Kato On behalf of the VSNET administrator team -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- The following was issued on February 4, 2002, as VSNET campaign circulati= on 1284 [Note a large part of detailed information is posted to vsnet-campaign sub-lists]. VSNET Weekly Campaign Summary *** Last week news *** (new targets) SN 2002ap (RA =3D 01h36m23s.85, Dec =3D +15d45'13".0) On January 24, an apparently very bright supernova in M74 was discovered by Y. Hirose at 14.5mag and the object was rising to 13.7mag on January 30. If this new object is of type Ia, it can become mag 11, the brightest SN since SN 1993J in M81. The position of the object is about 258" west and 108" south of the face-on spiral galaxy M74 =3D NGC 628 (vsnet-campaign-sn 328, vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8). H. Yamaoka reported that spectra taken by Bisei, Gunma, ESO, and Wise Obs. team show features similar to type Ib/c, or hypernova (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 32, 33, 46, 50, vsnet-campaign-sn 332, 333, 335). J. Deng reported that the expansion velocity of the ejected matter is quite fast and such large energy supports its hypernova nature (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 23). The VLA observations detected its radio counterpart of 375+/-30 microJy at 8.46 GHz. As well as GRB 980425 with SN 1998bw, it is suspected that this supernova might be associated with a gamma-ray burst (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 16, 17). S. Smartt reported on images around M74 taken before SN 2002ap appeared and suggested an initial mass of the progenitor around 40 solar mass if the object they detected is a single star (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 56). The rising rate seems to be rather slower with time while the brightening is still ongoing. The prompt reports by a number of observers have successfully record the brightening phase. It was now at about 12.7mag (visual). (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74). QZ Ser (RA =3D 15h56m55s.02, Dec =3D +21d07'12".1) P. Schmeer found a rare, bright outburst (11.9mag) of QZ Her on February 4. His observation also shows it was still faint on February 3 (vsnet-campaign-dn 2088, vsnet-campaign 1281, 1283, vsnet-campaign-news 130). It is suspected that the object is a WZ Sge-like rare object which experience an outburst once in a few years (vsnet-campaign 1282). (continuous targets) V2540 Oph (RA =3D 17h37m34s.36 Dec =3D -16d23'18".4) =3DNova Oph 2002 This nova has been given the permanent GCVS designation of V2540 Oph according to IAUC 7810 (vsnet-campaign-nova 801). The nova is still bright and a number of observations including visual and CCD observations has been reported to VSNET (vsnet-campaign-nova 795). The fading rate was reported to be relatively slow in the end of Janaury (vsnet-campaign-nova 799), and then, a brightening was detected on January 30 (vsnet-campaign-nova 802, 808). It then remained at about 8.6mag until February 1 (vsnet-campaign-nova 813, 817), and then again started gradual fading. It was now at about 9.0mag (vsnet-campaign-nova 818, 819). SN 2002ao (RA =3D 14h29m35s.74, Dec =3D -00d00'55".8) IAUC 7810 informed that a spectrum of SN 2002ao shows a blue continuum with broad features, which cannot be identified with Si, He, or H. They quoted the resemblance with type IIb SN 1996cb around maximum (vsnet-campaign-sn 334). The object was brightening and reported to be 13.6mag on January 29 (vsnet-campaign-sn 336). H. Yamaoka et al. performed spectroscopy and revealed that it is of type Ic (vsnet-campaign-sn 339). SN 2002an (RA =3D 08h22m47s.76, Dec =3D +24d17'41".7) The object was brightening and reported to be 15.5CR on January 25 by O. Trondal (vsnet-campaign-sn 337). SX LMi (RA =3D 10h54m29s.93, Dec =3D +30d06'30".0) After temporal short plateau without any fading around January 30 (vsnet-campaign-dn 2080), the object again started gradual fading (vsnet-campaign-dn 2081, 2082). Superhumps decreased in amplitude with time (vsnet-campaign-dn 2087). AT Cnc (RA =3D 08h28m36s.92, Dec =3D +25d20'02".6) The standstill continues (vsnet-campaign-dn 2086). V838 Mon (RA =3D 07h04m04s.816, Dec =3D -03d50'50".94) =3D GSC 4822.39 According to IAUC 7812, the possible nova or peculiar variable in Mon (GSC 4822.39) has been given the above permanent GCVS designation of V838 Mon (vsnet-campaign-nova 811, vsnet-campaign-unknown 62). The slow fading was reported (vsnet-campaign-nova 803, 814 vsnet-campaign-unknown 61, 63) until February 2 when L. Brat found the object suddenly brightened from 11 mag to 8.8mag (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 3, 31). The rapid brightening was promptly confirmed by a number of visual and CCD observers (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24). The rising rate became more gradual in the late January 3 when the object was V~7.5mag (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51). K. Ayani performed spectroscopy at Bisei Astronomical Observatory and reported the strong H-alpha emission with FWHM of 220 km/s. It has a broad wing with FWZI of about 3000 km/s, and a P-Cyg absorption with a blueshift of about 230 km/s relative to the emission peak (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 25). M. Fujii also performed spectroscopy and reported that there seems to be likely Fe II emission line series, accompanied with a P Cyg profile. The P Cyg profile was getting stronger with time (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 36). A. Henden compared its colors with those before the current eruption and reported that VRI colors are pretty consistent with earlier in the outburst, but the U and B colors have changed dramatically (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 52). The slow brightening is still ongoing, but to date no one can answer a question "What happen?" IM Nor (RA =3D 15h39m26s.47, Dec =3D -52d19'18".2) The slow fading continues. It is currently about 9.3-9.4mag (vsnet-campaign-nova 804, 807, 809, 810, 812, 816, 820). The X-ray observation with Chandra is planed on February 4 18:01 (vsnet-campaign-nova 815). UX Ori (RA =3D 05h04m30s.39, Dec =3D -03d47'18".3) As reported by E. Muyllaert on February 2, the object is now very faint at 11.2mag (vsnet-campaign-orion 11). HV Vir (RA =3D 13h21m03s.0, Dec =3D +01d53'28") The object has remained at the faint state. Late superhumps are still seen (vsnet-campaign-hvvir 80). Possible further fading was reported on January 31 (vsnet-campaign-hvvir 81). HL CMa (RA =3D 06h45m17s.0, Dec =3D -16d51'35") The object faded from the unusual outburst (vsnet-campaign-dn 2085). delta Sco (RA =3D 16h00m19s.9, Dec =3D -22d37'17") The object is still in very bright state (vsnet-campaign-be 159). A possible brightening was reported on January 2 (vsnet-campaign-be 162= ). V803 Cen (RA =3D 13h23m44s.5, Dec =3D -41d44'30".1) The object was fading from the outburst maximum (vsnet-campaign-dn 2089). V1039 Cen (RA =3D 13h55m41s.27, De =3D -64d15'57".9) The object is gradually fading without large oscillations (vsnet-campaign-nova 797, 805). kappa CMa (RA =3D 06h49m50s.45, Dec =3D -32d30'30".2) S. Otero reported that kappa CMa experienced an eruption of V=3D3.5mag. And he further commented that its variability range in the GCVS has been out of business for years now (V=3D 3.78 - 3.96), and recently the star has been at 3.7 - 3.8 when at minimum, meaning that the mean magnitude has been changing (vsnet-campaign-be 160, 161). eta Car (RA =3D 10h45m03s.65, Dec =3D -59d41'03".7) A H. Williams' observation shows it was V=3D5.154 on JD 2452302.88 (vsnet-campaign-sdor 10). No major brightening was detected in visual observations (vsnet-campaign-sdor 11). *** Future schedule *** 34TH COSPAR - GRB AFTERGLOW PHYSICS HOUSTON, TX, USA, 10-19 OCTOBER 2002 Main Scientific Organizer (MSO): Elena Pian - INAF, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Italy - pian@ts.astro.it http://www.ts.astro.it/topics/topix.html [vsnet-campaign-grb 1] MASS-LOSING PULSATING STARS AND THEIR CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTER Sendai, Japan: May 13-16, 2002 contact to: Dr. M. Seki or wsloc@astr.tohoku.ac.jp http://www.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/ws2002/ [vsnet-campaign-mira 3] International Conference on Classical Nova Explosions Sitges (Barcelona), Spain: 20-24 May 2002 For more detailed information, see http://www.ieec.fcr.es/novaconf [vsnet-campaign-nova 643] [vsnet-campaign-nova 666] Blazar meeting at Tuorla: June 17-21, 2002 for more information, see http://www.astro.utu.fi/blazar02 [vsnet-campaign-blazar 232] International workshop "XEUS - studying the evolution of the hot universe" March 11-13, 2002 ; MPE Garching, Germany for more information, see http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/xeus-workshop [vsnet-campaign-xray 98] [vsnet-campaign-xray 104] Campaign on YY Eri 2002 February 9 and 10 conducted by Japan Variable Star Study Association http://www4.airnet.ne.jp/mira/nhk/index.html [vsnet-campaign-ecl 38] *** General information *** SN 2002ap VSNET page for SN 2002ap: http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ap.html [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 25] Article on "Hypernova", see [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 35] Web page on supernovae and star formation presented by I. Wilson: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~irgeo/sample.html [vsnet-campaign-sn 338] Information about the host galaxy, see [vsnet-campaign-sn 329] Image showing a brightening taken by Y. Sano: ftp://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ap/sano0131.jpg [vsnet-campaign-sn 330] New list: [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap], see [vsnet-campaign-sn 331] or [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 69] Chart provided by R. Bouma and E. van Dijk: http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/vs-charts/sn2002ap.htm [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 9] Chart provided by A. Henden: http://www.aavso.org/charts/PSC/SN2002AP/ [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 9] Web page provided by D. W. Bishop: http://www.RochesterAstronomy.org/sn2002/sn2002ap.html http://www.RochesterAstronomy.org/supernova.html#2002ap [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 10] Spectrum taken by Gunma Astronomical Observatory: http://www.astron.pref.gunma.jp/images/gcs/SN2002ap.gif [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 11] Spectrum taken by Bisei Astronomical Observatory: http://www.town.bisei.okayama.jp/bao/astro/sn/sn2002ap.gif [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 11] Image taken by A. Miyashita: http://www.seikei.ac.jp/obs/disc/sn2002ap.htm [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 30,31] Images taken by G. P. Szokoly: http://www.aip.de./~gszokoly/sn2002ap/ [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 38] Images taken by Z. Vicar and P. Mihor: http://www2.arnes.si/~gljsentvid10/sn02ap.html [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 42] Sequence presented by A. Henden: ftp://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/sn2002ap.dat [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 43] Pre-SN2002ap image provided by S. Smartt et al.: http://www.science.uva.nl/~pmv/m74sn2002ap.gif [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 56] V838 Mon New list: [vsnet-campaign-v838mon], see [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 1], [vsnet-campaign-news 129] or [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 35] Time-series photometry provided by L. Kral, see [vsnet-campaign-data = 87] Spectrum taken by M. Gavin: http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pecmon02.htm [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 29] Chart presented by A. Price and C. Scovil: http://www.aavso.org/charts/catalog//MON/V838_MON/ [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 43] Sequence presented by B. H. Granslo, see [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 46] Nova Oph 2002 Images taken in the early phase by T. Seki: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~comet3/Tuusin/020127.html http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~comet3/Photo/Temp/PNovaOph_HadV105_D20020120_= L.jpg [vsnet-campaign-nova 793] Spectra taken by K. Ayani, Bisei Astronomical Observatory: http://www.town.bisei.okayama.jp/bao/astro/nova/nova_oph2002spim.gif http://www.town.bisei.okayama.jp/bao/astro/nova/nova_oph2002sppl.gif [vsnet-campaign-nova 794] Images taken by S. Kiyota: http://www.milky.ne.jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002v.jpg http://www.milky.ne.jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002Ic.jpg [vsnet-campaign-nova 796] Spectrum taken by S. Kiyota: http://www.milky.ne.jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002-spe.jpg [vsnet-campaign-nova 798] Discovery story reported by K. Haseda, see [vsnet-campaign-nova 800] Sequence provided by B. G. Granslo, see [vsnet-campaign-nova 806] ROTSE3 J015118.59-022300.1 Sequence provided by M. Simonse: http://joevp.20m.com/charts/sxncharts/ROTSE3%20J0151%20sxn.gif http://joevp.20m.com/charts/sxncharts/ROTSE3%20J0151%20Rsxn.gif [vsnet-campaign-dn 2083] KN Gem General information about its identification commented by M. Simonsen= , see [vsnet-campaign-dn 2084] (This summary can be cited.) 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A very bright super= nova SN 2002ap was discovered in M74.
The peculiar nova V838 Mon exper= iences an unexpected eruption.

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see below, "VSNET Weekly Campaign Summary" of the= last week.

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VSNET (Variable Star Network) is an i= nternational variable star observing
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eclipsing variables. = VSNET is one of invited contributing organizations
to the SkyPub Astro= Alert system.

The "News from VSNET", mainly focusing on rec= ent remarkable activities of
CVs and related systems, is issued on a w= eekly basis, except on occasions
of extremely urgent or transient even= ts.

Please refer to the VSNET Home Page for more details of= events and
objects listed.

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please refer to the instruction on the above page if a = reader needs more
information of the list structure.

CCD= observations of such targets are a relatively easy task for a 20-40cmtelescope; simply take as many CCD frames (with exposure times 10-30 sec= )
as possible, spanning several hours per night. The only requir= ements are
the weather and your patience! If you need more help = on the observing
technique, please feel free to ask on the vsnet-campa= ign list.

   We would sincerely appreciate volunteers wh= o would join the VSNET
Collaboration team to study the wonders of thes= e exotic variable stars.
To join the VSNET campaign collaborative list= , send an e-mail to

       &nbs= p; vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp (VSNET administrator)

with a l= ine "SUBSCRIBE vsnet-campaign."
(VSNET campaign members are strongly r= ecommended to subscribe to vsnet-alert
at the same time).

Regar= ds,
Taichi Kato
On behalf of the VSNET administrator team

--= -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -

The following was issued on February 4, 2002, as VSNET campaign = circulation 1284
[Note a large part of detailed information is posted = to vsnet-campaign
sub-lists].

VSNET Weekly Campaign Summary
=
*** Last week news ***

(new targets)
SN 2002ap (RA =3D= 01h36m23s.85, Dec =3D +15d45'13".0)

    On January= 24, an apparently very bright supernova in M74 was
discovered = by Y. Hirose at 14.5mag and the object was rising to
13.7mag on= January 30. If this new object is of type Ia, it can
bec= ome mag 11, the brightest SN since SN 1993J in M81.
The positio= n of the object is about 258" west and 108" south of
the face-o= n spiral galaxy M74 =3D NGC 628 (vsnet-campaign-sn 328,
vsnet-c= ampaign-sn2002ap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8). H. Yamaoka reported
= ; that spectra taken by Bisei, Gunma, ESO, and Wise Obs. team show
&nb= sp; features similar to type Ib/c, or hypernova (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap<= BR> 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 32, 33, 46, 50, vsnet-campaign-sn 332,<= BR> 333, 335). J. Deng reported that the expansion velocity o= f the
ejected matter is quite fast and such large energy suppor= ts its
hypernova nature (vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 23). The= VLA observations
detected its radio counterpart of 375+/-30 mi= croJy at 8.46 GHz.
As well as GRB 980425 with SN 1998bw, it is = suspected that this
supernova might be associated with a gamma-= ray burst
(vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 16, 17). S. Smartt rep= orted on images
around M74 taken before SN 2002ap appeared and = suggested an
initial mass of the progenitor around 40 solar mas= s if the object
they detected is a single star (vsnet-campaign-= sn2002ap 56).
    The rising rate seems to be rather sl= ower with time while
the brightening is still ongoing. Th= e prompt reports by a number
of observers have successfully rec= ord the brightening phase.
It was now at about 12.7mag (visual)= .
(vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, = 34,
36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,= 57,
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74= ).

QZ Ser (RA =3D 15h56m55s.02, Dec =3D +21d07'12".1)
    P. Schmeer found a rare, bright outburst (11.9ma= g) of QZ Her
on February 4. His observation also shows it= was still faint
on February 3 (vsnet-campaign-dn 2088, vsnet-c= ampaign 1281,
1283, vsnet-campaign-news 130). It is suspe= cted that
the object is a WZ Sge-like rare object which experie= nce an
outburst once in a few years (vsnet-campaign 1282).
<= BR>
(continuous targets)
V2540 Oph (RA =3D 17h37m34s.36 = ; Dec =3D -16d23'18".4)
=3DNova Oph 2002

    Thi= s nova has been given the permanent GCVS designation of
V2540 O= ph according to IAUC 7810 (vsnet-campaign-nova 801).
The nova i= s still bright and a number of observations including
visual an= d CCD observations has been reported to VSNET
(vsnet-campaign-n= ova 795). The fading rate was reported to be
relatively s= low in the end of Janaury (vsnet-campaign-nova 799),
and then, = a brightening was detected on January 30
(vsnet-campaign-nova 8= 02, 808). It then remained at about 8.6mag
until February= 1 (vsnet-campaign-nova 813, 817), and then again
started gradu= al fading. It was now at about 9.0mag
(vsnet-campaign-nov= a 818, 819).

SN 2002ao (RA =3D 14h29m35s.74, Dec =3D -0= 0d00'55".8)

    IAUC 7810 informed that a spectrum = of SN 2002ao shows a blue
continuum with broad features, which = cannot be identified with
Si, He, or H. They quoted the r= esemblance with type IIb SN 1996cb
around maximum (vsnet-campai= gn-sn 334). The object was brightening
and reported to be= 13.6mag on January 29 (vsnet-campaign-sn 336).
H. Yamaoka et a= l. performed spectroscopy and revealed that it is
of type Ic (v= snet-campaign-sn 339).

SN 2002an (RA =3D 08h22m47s.76, = Dec =3D +24d17'41".7)

    The object was brightenin= g and reported to be 15.5CR on
January 25 by O. Trondal (vsnet-= campaign-sn 337).

SX LMi (RA =3D 10h54m29s.93, Dec =3D = +30d06'30".0)

    After temporal short plateau with= out any fading around January 30
(vsnet-campaign-dn 2080), the = object again started gradual fading
(vsnet-campaign-dn 2081, 20= 82). Superhumps decreased in amplitude
with time (vsnet-c= ampaign-dn 2087).

AT Cnc (RA =3D 08h28m36s.92, Dec =3D = +25d20'02".6)

    The standstill continues (vsnet-c= ampaign-dn 2086).

V838 Mon (RA =3D 07h04m04s.816, Dec =3D= -03d50'50".94)
=3D GSC 4822.39

    According to= IAUC 7812, the possible nova or peculiar variable
in Mon (GSC = 4822.39) has been given the above permanent GCVS
designation of= V838 Mon (vsnet-campaign-nova 811,
vsnet-campaign-unknown 62).=
    The slow fading was reported (vsnet-campaign-nova = 803, 814
vsnet-campaign-unknown 61, 63) until February 2 when L= . Brat
found the object suddenly brightened from 11 mag to 8.8m= ag
(vsnet-campaign-v838mon 3, 31). The rapid brightening = was
promptly confirmed by a number of visual and CCD observers<= BR> (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1= 5,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24). The rising rate becam= e more
gradual in the late January 3 when the object was V~7.5m= ag
(vsnet-campaign-v838mon 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, = 41,
42, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51). K. Ayani performed s= pectroscopy
at Bisei Astronomical Observatory and reported the = strong H-alpha
emission with FWHM of 220 km/s. It has a b= road wing with FWZI of
about 3000 km/s, and a P-Cyg absorption = with a blueshift of about
230 km/s relative to the emission pea= k (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 25).
M. Fujii also performed spectros= copy and reported that there seems
to be likely Fe II emission = line series, accompanied with a P Cyg
profile. The P Cyg = profile was getting stronger with time
(vsnet-campaign-v838mon = 36). A. Henden compared its colors with
those before the = current eruption and reported that VRI colors
are pretty consis= tent with earlier in the outburst, but the U and
B colors have = changed dramatically (vsnet-campaign-v838mon 52).
   &n= bsp; The slow brightening is still ongoing, but to date no one can
&nb= sp; answer a question "What happen?"

IM Nor (RA =3D 15h= 39m26s.47, Dec =3D -52d19'18".2)

    The slow fadin= g continues. It is currently about 9.3-9.4mag
(vsnet-camp= aign-nova 804, 807, 809, 810, 812, 816, 820).
The X-ray observa= tion with Chandra is planed on February 4 18:01
(vsnet-campaign= -nova 815).

UX Ori (RA =3D 05h04m30s.39, Dec =3D -03d47= '18".3)

    As reported by E. Muyllaert on February= 2, the object is now
very faint at 11.2mag (vsnet-campaign-ori= on 11).

HV Vir (RA =3D 13h21m03s.0, Dec =3D +01d53'28")=

    The object has remained at the faint state.&nb= sp; Late superhumps
are still seen (vsnet-campaign-hvvir 80).&n= bsp; Possible further
fading was reported on January 31 (vsnet-= campaign-hvvir 81).

HL CMa (RA =3D 06h45m17s.0, Dec =3D= -16d51'35")

    The object faded from the unusual = outburst (vsnet-campaign-dn 2085).

delta Sco (RA =3D 16= h00m19s.9, Dec =3D -22d37'17")

    The object is st= ill in very bright state (vsnet-campaign-be 159).
A possible br= ightening was reported on January 2 (vsnet-campaign-be 162).

&= nbsp; V803 Cen (RA =3D 13h23m44s.5, Dec =3D -41d44'30".1)

&n= bsp; The object was fading from the outburst maximum
(vsn= et-campaign-dn 2089).

V1039 Cen (RA =3D 13h55m41s.27, D= e =3D -64d15'57".9)

    The object is gradually fad= ing without large oscillations
(vsnet-campaign-nova 797, 805).<= BR>

kappa CMa (RA =3D 06h49m50s.45, Dec =3D -32d30'30".2)
    S. Otero reported that kappa CMa experienced an = eruption of
V=3D3.5mag. And he further commented that its= variability range
in the GCVS has been out of business for yea= rs now (V=3D 3.78 - 3.96),
and recently the star has been at 3.= 7 - 3.8 when at minimum,
meaning that the mean magnitude has be= en changing
(vsnet-campaign-be 160, 161).

eta= Car           &nb= sp;   (RA =3D 10h45m03s.65, Dec =3D -59d41'03".7)

=    A H. Williams' observation shows it was V=3D5.154 on JD 2452= 302.88
(vsnet-campaign-sdor 10). No major brightening was= detected
in visual observations (vsnet-campaign-sdor 11).
<= BR>
*** Future schedule ***

34TH COSPAR - GRB AFTERGLOW = PHYSICS
HOUSTON, TX, USA, 10-19 OCTOBER 2002
Main Scientific Organi= zer (MSO):
Elena Pian - INAF, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Ita= ly -
pian@ts.astro.it
http://www.ts.astro.it/topics/topix.html
[= vsnet-campaign-grb 1]

MASS-LOSING PULSATING STARS AND THEIR= CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTER
Sendai, Japan: May 13-16, 2002
contact to: Dr= . M. Seki or wsloc@astr.tohoku.ac.jp
http://www.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/ws20= 02/
[vsnet-campaign-mira 3]

International Conference on = Classical Nova Explosions
Sitges (Barcelona), Spain: 20-24 May 2002    For more detailed information, see http://www.ieec.fc= r.es/novaconf
[vsnet-campaign-nova 643]
[vsnet-campaign-nova 666]
Blazar meeting at Tuorla: June 17-21, 2002
for more infor= mation, see http://www.astro.utu.fi/blazar02
[vsnet-campaign-blazar 23= 2]

International workshop
"XEUS - studying the evolution= of the hot universe"
March 11-13, 2002 ; MPE Garching, Germany
for= more information, see
http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/xeus-wo= rkshop
[vsnet-campaign-xray 98]
[vsnet-campaign-xray 104]

&n= bsp; Campaign on YY Eri
2002 February 9 and 10
conducted by Japan V= ariable Star Study Association
http://www4.airnet.ne.jp/mira/nhk/index= .html
[vsnet-campaign-ecl 38]

*** General information ***
SN 2002ap
    VSNET page for SN 2002ap:http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ap.html
[vsnet-camp= aign-sn2002ap 25]
    Article on "Hypernova", see [vsne= t-campaign-sn2002ap 35]
    Web page on supernovae and = star formation presented by I. Wilson:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~= irgeo/sample.html
[vsnet-campaign-sn 338]
    Inform= ation about the host galaxy, see [vsnet-campaign-sn 329]
  &= nbsp; Image showing a brightening taken by Y. Sano:
ftp://ftp.kusastro= .kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ap/sano0131.jpg
[vsnet-campaign-sn = 330]
    New list: [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap], see [vsne= t-campaign-sn 331]
or [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 69]
  &nbs= p; Chart provided by R. Bouma and E. van Dijk:
http://www.shopplaza.nl= /astro/vs-charts/sn2002ap.htm
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 9]
&nb= sp; Chart provided by A. Henden:
http://www.aavso.org/charts/PSC= /SN2002AP/
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 9]
    Web page = provided by D. W. Bishop:
http://www.RochesterAstronomy.org/sn2002/sn2= 002ap.html
http://www.RochesterAstronomy.org/supernova.html#2002ap
= [vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 10]
    Spectrum taken by Gunm= a Astronomical Observatory:
http://www.astron.pref.gunma.jp/images/gcs= /SN2002ap.gif
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 11]
    Spect= rum taken by Bisei Astronomical Observatory:
http://www.town.bisei.oka= yama.jp/bao/astro/sn/sn2002ap.gif
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 11]
&nbs= p;   Image taken by A. Miyashita:
http://www.seikei.ac.jp/ob= s/disc/sn2002ap.htm
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 30,31]
  &nb= sp; Images taken by G. P. Szokoly:
http://www.aip.de./~gszokoly/sn2002= ap/
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 38]
    Images taken by= Z. Vicar and P. Mihor:
http://www2.arnes.si/~gljsentvid10/sn02ap.html=
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 42]
    Sequence presented= by A. Henden:
ftp://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/sn200= 2ap.dat
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 43]
    Pre-SN2002a= p image provided by S. Smartt et al.:
http://www.science.uva.nl/~pmv/m= 74sn2002ap.gif
[vsnet-campaign-sn2002ap 56]

V838 Mon
=     New list: [vsnet-campaign-v838mon], see [vsnet-campaig= n-v838mon 1],
[vsnet-campaign-news 129] or [vsnet-campaign-v838mon 35]=
    Time-series photometry provided by L. Kral, see [v= snet-campaign-data 87]
    Spectrum taken by M. Gavin:<= BR>http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pecmon02.htm
[vsnet-campaign-v838mon= 29]
    Chart presented by A. Price and C. Scovil:
= http://www.aavso.org/charts/catalog//MON/V838_MON/
[vsnet-campaign-v83= 8mon 43]
    Sequence presented by B. H. Granslo, see [= vsnet-campaign-v838mon 46]

Nova Oph 2002
  &nb= sp; Images taken in the early phase by T. Seki:
http://www2u.biglobe.n= e.jp/~comet3/Tuusin/020127.html
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~comet3/Pho= to/Temp/PNovaOph_HadV105_D20020120_L.jpg
[vsnet-campaign-nova 793]
=     Spectra taken by K. Ayani, Bisei Astronomical Observat= ory:
http://www.town.bisei.okayama.jp/bao/astro/nova/nova_oph2002spim.= gif
http://www.town.bisei.okayama.jp/bao/astro/nova/nova_oph2002sppl.g= if
[vsnet-campaign-nova 794]
    Images taken by S. = Kiyota:
http://www.milky.ne.jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002v.jpg
http://w= ww.milky.ne.jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002Ic.jpg
[vsnet-campaign-nova 796]<= BR>    Spectrum taken by S. Kiyota:
http://www.milky.ne= .jp/~meineko/CCD/nvoph2002-spe.jpg
[vsnet-campaign-nova 798]
=    Discovery story reported by K. Haseda, see [vsnet-campaign-n= ova 800]
    Sequence provided by B. G. Granslo, see [v= snet-campaign-nova 806]

ROTSE3 J015118.59-022300.1
= ;   Sequence provided by M. Simonse:
http://joevp.20m.com/ch= arts/sxncharts/ROTSE3%20J0151%20sxn.gif
http://joevp.20m.com/charts/sx= ncharts/ROTSE3%20J0151%20Rsxn.gif
[vsnet-campaign-dn 2083]

&nbs= p; KN Gem
    General information about its identificat= ion commented by M. Simonsen,
see [vsnet-campaign-dn 2084]

= (This summary can be cited.)

Regards,
Makoto Uemura
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------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AE2A.34807DA0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 5 11:59:30 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g15JxTc25618 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA00712 for bioastro-list; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:40:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe111.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.104]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11591 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:30:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:30:03 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.170] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Voyager 1-2 Status Report 1208 for December 22-28, 2001 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:24:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AE50.D08A0F10" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2002 19:30:03.0314 (UTC) FILETIME=[82495920:01C1AE7B] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AE50.D08A0F10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable VOYAGER MISSION OPERATIONS STATUS REPORT #1208, DECEMBER 22 =E2=80=93 DE= CEMBER 28, 2001 COMMAND TRANSMISSION & VERIFICATION OPERATIONS There were no Voyager 1 command operations during the period. Voyager 2 command operations consisted of the uplink of seven bracketed = command loss timer resets sent on five-minute centers using 0.5 Hz steps = on 12/27 [DOY 361/0052z]. The spacecraft received four of the seven com= mands sent. SEQUENCE GENERATION OPERATIONS =20 Continue sequence development of CCSL B115. DATA RETURN OPERATIONS Voyager 1 Data Processing and Operations: There were 77.3 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 1 of which 4.0= hours were large aperture coverage. There were no real-time or schedule = support changes during the period. There were two significant outages during the period both caused by poor = weather conditions at Madrid. The first outage of 8.3 hours duration was= caused by a snowstorm at DSS-65 on 12/23 [DOY 357, DR M100431]. The sec= ond outage of 1.2 hours was attributed to poor weather conditions at DSS-= 65 on 12/24 [DOY 358, DR M100440]. Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities during this= period. One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week. The AHELI1 cycl= ic for recording additional GS-4 data was enabled on November 17. One fr= ame of GS-4 data from this cyclic was recorded on December 22. The EDR b= acklog is 2 days. Voyager 2 Data Processing and Operations: There were 68.2 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 2 of which 7.8= hours were large aperture coverage. There were no real-time or schedule = support changes during the period. =20 There was one significant outages of 0.6 hours duration on 12/26 [DOY 360= ] due to a commercial power outage at DSS-45. [DR C100754]. Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities during this= period. One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week. A second frame = of GS-4 data was recorded on December 22, using the BHELI 1 cyclic, which= was enabled on July 14. The PRA receiver recovered from it=E2=80=99s 82= nd POR event on December 24. This event occurred between two station DSS= -45 passes. The EDR backlog is 3 days. FLIGHT SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Voyager 1 performance was nominal during this report period. Voyager 2 performance was nominal during this report period. PROPELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS AS OF 12-27-01/12-28-01 =20 =20 SpacecraftConsumption One Week (Gm)Propellant Remaining (Kg)Output (Watts)Margin (Watts) 319.6431.07310.229 329.4032.91312.057 RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LIGHT TIME AS OF 12/28/01 Voyager 1Voyager 2 Distance from the Sun (Km)12,468,000,0009,863,000,000 Distance from the Sun (Mi)7,747,000,0006,129,000,000 Distance from the Earth (Km)12,578,000,0009,992,000,000 Distance from the Earth (Mi)7,816,000,0006,209,000,000 Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Km) =20 14,285,000,000 =20 13,409,000,000 Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Mi) =20 8,876,000,000 =20 8,332,000,000 Velocity Relative to Sun (Km/sec) =20 17.237 =20 15.730 Velocity Relative to Sun (Mi/hr) =20 38,557 =20 35,187 Velocity Relative to Earth (Km/sec) =20 31.476 =20 36.881 Velocity Relative to Earth (Mi/hr) =20 70,410 =20 82,501 Round Trip Light Time (Hours:Minutes:Seconds) =20 23:18:28 =20 18:31:02 ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AE50.D08A0F10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

VOYAGER MISSION OP= ERATIONS STATUS REPORT #1208, DECEMBER 22 =E2=80=93 DECEMBER 28, 2001

= COMMAND TRANSMISSION & VERI= FICATION OPERATIONS

There were no Voyager 1 c= ommand operations during the period.

Voyager 2 command opera= tions consisted of the uplink of seven bracketed command loss timer reset= s sent on five-minute centers using 0.5 Hz steps on 12/27 [DOY 361/0052z]= .   The spacecraft rec= eived four of the seven commands sent.

SEQUENCE GENERATION OPERATIONS
Continue sequence development of CCSL B115.

DATA RETURN OPERATIONS

Voyager 1 Data Pro= cessing and Operations:

There were 77.3 hours of DSN scheduled sup= port for Voyager 1 of which 4.0 hours were large aperture coverage. There= were no real-time or schedule support changes during the period.

= There were two significant outages during the period both caused by poor = weather conditions at Madrid. The first outage of 8.3 hours duration was caused by a snowstorm at D= SS-65 on 12/23 [DOY 357, DR M100431].&n= bsp; The second outage of 1.2 hours was attributed to poor weather= conditions at DSS-65 on 12/24 [DOY 358, DR M100440].

Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities durin= g this period. One frame o= f GS-4 data was recorded this week.&nbs= p; The AHELI1 cyclic for recording additional GS-4 data was enable= d on November 17. One fram= e of GS-4 data from this cyclic was recorded on December 22. The EDR backlog is 2 days.

Voyag= er 2 Data Processing and Operations:

There were 68.2 hours of DSN = scheduled support for Voyager 2 of which 7.8 hours were large aperture co= verage. There were no real-time or schedule support changes during the pe= riod.

There was one significant outages of 0.6 ho= urs duration on 12/26 [DOY 360] due to a commercial power outage at DSS-4= 5. [DR C100754].

Science instrument performance = was nominal for all activities during this period. One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week. A second frame of GS-4 data= was recorded on December 22, using the BHELI 1 cyclic, which was enabled= on July 14. The PRA recei= ver recovered from it=E2=80=99s 82^nd POR event on December 24.= This event occurred betwe= en two station DSS-45 passes. The EDR backlog is 3 days.

FLIGHT SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

Voyager 1 performance was nom= inal during this report period.

Voyager 2 performance was nominal = during this report period.

PROP= ELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS AS OF 12-27-01/12-28-01 <= /P> =
312.0

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Spacecraft

Consumption

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Propellant

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Margin

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31

9.64

31.07

310.2

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32

9.40

32.91
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RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LI= GHT TIME AS OF 12/28/01
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Distance= from the Sun (Km)

Voya= ger 1

Voyager 2

12,468,000,000
=
9,863,000,000

Distance fro= m the Sun (Mi)

7,747,000,000

6,129,000,000

Distance from t= he Earth (Km)

12,578,000,000

9,992,000,000

Distance from t= he Earth (Mi)

7,816,000,000

6,209,000,000

Total Distance T= raveled Since

Launch (Km)

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14,285,000,000<= /P>
=

13,409,000,000

Total Distance Travel= ed Since

Launch (Mi)
<= o:p>

8,876,000,000

8,332,000,000

Velocity Relative to Sun
=
(Km/sec)

17.237

<= /P>
15.730

Velocity Rel= ative to Sun

(Mi/hr= )

38,557

&= nbsp;

35,187

Velocity Relative to Earth

= (Km/sec)

31.476

36.881

Velocity Relative to Earth

(Mi/hr)

70,410

82,501

Round Trip Light Time

(H= ours:Minutes:Seconds)

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------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AE50.D08A0F10-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 5 22:56:14 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g166uCc03572 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA01986 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:46:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe68.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.210]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01976 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:46:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:46:20 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.112] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Contour contest Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:46:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1AEB0.0E79B960" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2002 06:46:20.0040 (UTC) FILETIME=[FBE66080:01C1AED9] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1AEB0.0E79B960 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:38 PM To: CUNEWS-PHYSICAL_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Contour contest NASA's comet tour challenges teachers and students to enter contest FOR RELEASE: Feb. 5, 2002 Contact: David Brand Office: 607-255-3651 E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell University are challenging students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the spacecraft's forthcoming exploration of comets. They are being invited to participate in the Cornell and Contour Comet Challenge, with the grand prize for the winners a trip to Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, Florida, to witness the launch of the spacecraft scheduled for July 1. The NASA mission, of=DEcially the Comet Nucleus Tour, is being managed by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, with Cornell's Department of Astronomy leading the international science team. As part of Cornell's educational outreach for the mission, students and their teachers are being challenged to devise a program to educate and involve their communities about Contour's goal to study at least two comets as they travel through the inner solar system. The spacecraft will provide the closest look ever at a comet's nucleus. The teams submitting the two winning programs -- one in grades 5 through 8 and one in grades 9 through 12 -- will be invited to attend four days of launch-related activities, including interviews with mission scientists and engineers, at Kennedy Space Center. Each team will be allowed a budget of up to $1,000 for its educational program. The winning teams, each consisting of a teacher and a student, will be chosen by a panel of educators and scientists on the basis of the originality and feasibility of the submitted plans. Students don't need a lot of background knowledge either on Contour or about comets to participate in the program, explains Laura Lautz, the mission's education and public outreach coordinator at Cornell. "The key is, they need to be curious," she says. Beyond that, the teachers and students can develop any kind of presentation they choose: a program in conjunction with a local museum, a web-based program or even a video. Students will be encouraged to speak in public and to write articles for local or student newspapers. As well as the two winning teams, two teams from each state will be chosen to receive a kit of Contour materials so that they can follow through with their plans to share the mission's comet exploration with their communities. These teams also will be able to watch the launch on their computers via Web streaming, and to ask questions of mission scientists following the launch. For more information on the space mission and how to enter the competition, go on line to . Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability. o Cornell Department of Astronomy: o NASA Discovery Program: -30- The web version of this release, with accompanying photos, may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/contour.contest.deb.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1AEB0.0E79B960 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: cunews@cornell.edu

Sent: T= uesday, February 05, 2002 4:38 PM

<= B>To: CUNEWS-PHYSICAL_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell= .edu

Subject: Cornell News: = Contour contest

NASA's comet tour challenges teach= ers and students to enter contest

FOR RELEASE: Feb. 5, 2002<= BR>
Contact: David Brand
Office: 607-255-3651
E-mail= : deb27@cornell.edu

ITHACA, N.Y. -- NASA's Contour space= mission and Cornell University
are challenging students and their tea= chers in the United States to
participate in the spacecraft's forthcom= ing exploration of comets.

They are being invited to participate i= n the Cornell and Contour
Comet Challenge, with the grand prize for th= e winners a trip to
Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, = Florida, to witness
the launch of the spacecraft scheduled for July 1.= The NASA mission,
of=DEcially the Comet Nucleus Tour, is being = managed by the Applied
Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Univers= ity, with Cornell's
Department of Astronomy leading the international = science team.

As part of Cornell's educational outreach for the mi= ssion, students
and their teachers are being challenged to devise a pr= ogram to
educate and involve their communities about Contour's goal to= study
at least two comets as they travel through the inner solar syst= em.
The spacecraft will provide the closest look ever at a comet's
= nucleus.

The teams submitting the two winning programs -- one in g= rades 5
through 8 and one in grades 9 through 12 -- will be invited to= attend
four days of launch-related activities, including interviews w= ith
mission scientists and engineers, at Kennedy Space Center. E= ach team
will be allowed a budget of up to $1,000 for its educational = program.
The winning teams, each consisting of a teacher and a student= , will
be chosen by a panel of educators and scientists on the basis o= f the
originality and feasibility of the submitted plans.

Stude= nts don't need a lot of background knowledge either on Contour
or abou= t comets to participate in the program, explains Laura Lautz,
the miss= ion's education and public outreach coordinator at Cornell.
"The key i= s, they need to be curious," she says. Beyond that, the
teachers= and students can develop any kind of presentation they
choose: a prog= ram in conjunction with a local museum, a web-based
program or even a = video. Students will be encouraged to speak in
public and to wri= te articles for local or student newspapers. As
well as the two = winning teams, two teams from each state will be
chosen to receive a k= it of Contour materials so that they can follow
through with their pla= ns to share the mission's comet exploration
with their communities.&nb= sp; These teams also will be able to watch the
launch on their compute= rs via Web streaming, and to ask questions of
mission scientists follo= wing the launch. For more information on the
space mission and h= ow to enter the competition, go on line to
<http://www.contour2002.= org>.

Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites p= rovide
additional information on this news release. Some might n= ot be part
of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no con= trol over
their content or availability.

o Cornell Department o= f Astronomy: <http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>

o NASA Discove= ry Program: <http://discovery.nasa.gov>

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= The web version of this release, with accompanying photos, may be
foun= d at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/contour.contest.deb.ht= ml

Cornell University News Service
Surge 3
Cornell Universit= y
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4206
cunews@cornell.edu
http://www= .news.cornell.edu

------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1AEB0.0E79B960-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 5 23:00:10 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g16709c24286 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:00:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA01824 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:43:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe156.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.149]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01814 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:43:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:43:10 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.112] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 02/5/2002 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:43:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AEAF.9D5B22F0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2002 06:43:10.0546 (UTC) FILETIME=[8AF3E320:01C1AED9] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AEAF.9D5B22F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Tara Hess Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:39 PM To: eo-announce@eodomo.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 02/5/2002 The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (02/5/2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------- New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ * Hantavirus Risk Maps (DAAC Study) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Hanta/ Satellite and ground truth data help scientists predict the risk of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. * Tracking a Volcano: Satellite Observations of Piton de la Fournaise http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ReunionIsland/ NASA satellite data from Terra and Landsat provide a unique perspectiv= e on the current eruption of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano. -------------------- Natural Hazards: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/ * Latest Events: Dust and Smoke: Dust Storm Off Southern Coast of Iceland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php= 3?i http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?i= mg_ id=3D1616 Volcano: Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts in the Congo http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php= 3?i http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?i= mg_ id=3D1615 -------------------- In the News: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/ * Latest Images: Snow and Ice Storm in the Midwest http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7281 Nyiragongo lava flows http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7280 Plant Productivity in the West Indian Ocean http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7279 New Orleans, Louisiana http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7278 Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7277 Watching the World Rev its Heat Engine http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7276 Coccoliths in the Celtic Sea http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7275 Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Congo Volcanoes http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id= =3D7274 * NASA News http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ - Satellites vs. Mosquitoes: Tracking West Nile Virus in the U.S - Satellites Tracking Climate Changes and Links to Disease Outbreaks in Africa - Fewer Clouds Found In Tropics: NASA scientists discover new evidence of climate change * New Research Highlights http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/ -------------------- New Data: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/ * Updated Data: TOMS Aerosol Index data for December 2001 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/aerosol.toms.htm= l 4km TRMM Fires data for November 2001 - January 2002 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/fires.trmm.html Ozone data for December 2001 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/ozone.toms.html Sea Surface Temperature data for November 1999 - December 1999 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/sst.avhrr.html UV Radiation Exposure data for December 2001 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/uv.toms.html - Earth Observatory Announcements http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov To unsubscribe: send body "unsubscribe eo-announce " to majordomo@eodomo.gsfc.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AEAF.9D5B22F0 Content-Type: text/html; 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----- Original Message -----

From: Tara Hess

Sent: Tuesday, F= ebruary 05, 2002 11:39 PM

To: eo-announce@eodomo.gsfc.nasa.gov

= Subject: Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 02/5/2002
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (02/5/2002)
---= --------------------------------------------------------------

New= Features:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/

* Hantavirus= Risk Maps (DAAC Study)
   http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/= Study/Hanta/
   Satellite and ground truth data help scienti= sts predict the risk of
hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

* Tracki= ng a Volcano: Satellite Observations of Piton de la Fournaise
&n= bsp; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ReunionIsland/
  = ; NASA satellite data from Terra and Landsat provide a unique perspective=
on the current eruption of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano.

= --------------------

Natural Hazards:
http://earthobservatory.n= asa.gov/NaturalHazards/

* Latest Events:
   Dust and = Smoke: Dust Storm Off Southern Coast of Iceland
   http://ea= rthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?i
http:= //earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D1616

   Volcano: Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts in the= Congo
   http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/na= tural_hazards_v2.php3?i
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazard= s/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_
id=3D1615

--------------------
In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

*= Latest Images:
   Snow and Ice Storm in the Midwest
&nbs= p; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?= img_id=3D7281

   Nyiragongo lava flows
   h= ttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=3D7= 280

   Plant Productivity in the West Indian Ocean
&n= bsp; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php= 3?img_id=3D7279

   New Orleans, Louisiana
  = ; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=3D= 7278

   Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile
&n= bsp; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_= id=3D7277

   Watching the World Rev its Heat Engine
&= nbsp; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.ph= p3?img_id=3D7276

   Coccoliths in the Celtic Sea
&nbs= p; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?= img_id=3D7275

   Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Congo Vol= canoes
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* NASA News
   http://ear= thobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/
    &nbs= p;    - Satellites vs. Mosquitoes: Tracking West Nile Viru= s in the U.S
         - Satell= ites Tracking Climate Changes and Links to Disease
Outbreaks in Africa=
         - Fewer Clouds Found= In Tropics: NASA scientists discover new
evidence of climate change
* New Research Highlights
   http://earthobservatory.n= asa.gov/Newsroom/Research/

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New Data:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/

* Updated Data:   TOMS Aerosol Index data for December 2001
   h= ttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/aerosol.toms.html
   4km TRMM Fires data for November 2001 - January 2002   http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/fires= .trmm.html

   Ozone data for December 2001
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   Sea Surface Temperature data for November 1999 - Dece= mber 1999
   http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Da= tasets/sst.avhrr.html

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SOLAR= SCIENCE

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Dulles - Feb= 5, 2002 - Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it successfully la= unched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) High = Energy Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) satellite into its targeted orbit abo= ard the company's Pegasus rocket earlier today.

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Seal Beach - = Feb 5, 2002 - The first Boeing Delta II rocket launch of 2002 will carry = the latest additions to a satellite constellation that delivers essential= communications services to remote areas of the globe.

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- Born-again Planets
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Moffett Field - Feb 6, 2002 - To John Debes= and Steinn Sigurdsson, two Penn State infrared astronomers, finding new = planets is hot business. Indeed, their latest research presented on 7 Jan= uary at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washin= gton, DC, may help to resolve two questions that have mystified previous = planet hunters. Their new findings address the question of whether planet= s can exist around stars called White Dwarfs.

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Washin= gton (AFP) Feb 05, 2002 - NASA has proposed a leaner budget for fiscal 20= 03, marked by reduced spending for the International Space Station but a = boost to space exploration and research.

- US to build nuclear-pow= ered craft for deep space exploration
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Washington (AFP) Feb 05, 2002 - The United S= tates plans to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft to explore the far reac= hes of the solar system and conduct experiments on the surface of distant= planets, the US space agency announced.

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West Lafayette - Feb 5, 2002 - Buzz A= ldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, is leading a team of researche= rs, including engineers at Purdue University, to design a new class of sp= acecraft that would serve as orbiting hotels perpetually cruising between= Earth and Mars.

- Final frontier now open -- but visa still requi= red
http://spacedaily.com/news/020205042532.ertkk28f.html

Paris= (AFP) Feb 05, 2002 - Space has been opened up to corporate suits, millio= naire tourists and maybe even to gameshow winners, thanks to a landmark a= greement among five partner agencies in the International Space Station (= ISS).

- Computer breakdown hits ISS
http://spacedaily.com/news/= 020205123417.bvxjdt5q.html

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- Surveyo= r Updates Mars Atlas
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/marsmap-02a.html
San Diego - Feb 6, 2002 - In 1979, NASA published Atlas Of Mars, ed= ited by R.M. Batson, P.M. Bridges, and J.L. Inge, of the U.S. Geological = Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona. This was a compendium of airbrushed shaded = relief maps, controlled photomosaics, and in a few cases albedo (shading)= maps, mostly assembled from Mariner 9 survey images, with some gaps fill= ed by Viking orbiter images.

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NANO TECH

- Nanow= ire-Based Electronics And Optics Comes One Step Closer
http://www.spac= edaily.com/news/nanotech-02f.html

San Francisco - Feb 6, 2002 - An= entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic= devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University o= f California-Berkeley.

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Seal Beach - Feb 6, 2002 - Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications C= o. has assumed control of a turnkey satellite mobile communications syste= m designed and built by Boeing Space and Communications.

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------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1AEB0.7CFAE8A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 5 23:31:01 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g167V0c16646 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id CAA03448 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:17:53 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe71.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.213]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03444 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:17:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:17:19 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.112] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Advancing science to counter creationism Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:17:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1AEB4.6263D2A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2002 07:17:19.0680 (UTC) FILETIME=[5054EC00:01C1AEDE] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1AEB4.6263D2A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Gradual Illumination of the Mind The advance of science, not the demotion of religion, will best counter t= he influence of creationism By Michael Shermer =20 In one of the most existentially penetrating statements ever made by a sc= ientist, Richard Dawkins concluded that "the universe we observe has prec= isely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, = no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference= ." http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202skeptic.html ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1AEB4.6263D2A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1AEB4.6263D2A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Feb 6 08:08:39 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g16G8Zc08332 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA26917 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:49:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe162.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.155]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26913 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:49:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 07:48:56 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.32] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: The Biggest Explosions in the Solar System Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:48:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AEFB.DBE6B9C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2002 15:48:56.0476 (UTC) FILETIME=[C90C45C0:01C1AF25] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AEFB.DBE6B9C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: NASA Science News Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:38 AM To: NASA Science News Subject: The Biggest Explosions in the Solar System NASA Science News for February 6, 2002 NASA's HESSI spacecraft aims to unravel an explosive mystery: the origin of solar flares. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/06feb_hessi.htm?list662745 --- This is a free service. Tell a kid you know about NASA Kids Club -- they collect virtual trading = cards, trade them online, have their own e-mail account, and participate = in great learning activities for extra club points. Go to http://kids.msf= c.nasa.gov/Club/Login/SignUp.asp?sng for more info. If you need to get in touch with us directly, please go to http://science.nasa.gov/comments Home page: http://science.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1AEFB.DBE6B9C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Sent: = Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:34 PM

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: Meteors Go Pop In The Night

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020204/020204-3.html

Meteors go pop in= the night

Recordings of sounds from shooting stars defy explanati= on.

Nature Science Update
Philip Ball
February 6, 2002
Scientists camping out in the Mongolian snow at minus 30 degrees C have= made the
first recordings of an elusive sound: the crackle and pop of= a meteor
shower[1]. Their observations defy all current explanations = of what happens
when debris burns up on entry to the Earth's atmospher= e.

Some meteor booms are simply acoustic waves like those from sup= ersonic
aircraft. But for centuries there have been rumours of more ba= ffling
'electrophonic' noises occurring at the same time as meteors be= come visible.

Because light travels much faster than sound, there = should be a delay
between the appearance of a meteor and its sound - j= ust as thunder generally
comes seconds after a lightning flash. In fac= t, meteors burn up so high in
the atmosphere that this time delay ough= t to be a few minutes.

Because one of the leading candidate theori= es is that
electrically charged particles streaming behind meteors int= eract with the
Earth's magnetic field and produce radio waves, which c= ause the
electrophonic noises. These radio waves are broadcast to an o= bserver at the
speed of light. They could be converted to sound by exc= iting vibrations in
objects at ground level.

Full story here:
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AF0C.2F2692D0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Feb 6 11:25:47 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g16JPkc02635 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA06189 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:06:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe56.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.198]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06179 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:06:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:06:23 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.104] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:06:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AF17.6B8E6FD0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2002 19:06:23.0333 (UTC) FILETIME=[5E533150:01C1AF41] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AF17.6B8E6FD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: spacenews@SPACE.COM Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:59 PM To: SPACECOM-TEXTS@LISTSERV.SPACE.COM Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, February 6, 2002 -- http://www.space.com= / In today's issue: /------------------------------------- The most comprehensive Virtual Exhibit Hall for the Space Industry - an o= nline resource for space industry engineers and managers to find technica= l information and news about space-qualified components, manufacturers, s= ervice providers and software companies - all in a categorized, easy-to-u= se, online database! Visit http://www.AstroExpo.com and find what you ne= ed! http://www.AstroExpo.com -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Manned Lunar Landing Profile Poster Science/Astronomy: * Microscopic Nanotubes Could Make Ships Lightweight, Superstrong * NEW! The Blue Marble * Are There Other Universes? Missions/Launches: * Shuttle Overhaul Work Headed to Florida from California * Solar Science Probe Finally Reaches Orbit Atop Pegasus Rocket * NASA To Go Nuclear; Spaceflight Initiative Approved Business/Industry: * NASA Kills Europa Orbiter; Revamps Planetary Exploration Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- * Manned Lunar Landing Profile Poster http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/holidaygiftguide_2001-= 1.html A complete summary of all the steps in a Manned Lunar Landing (MLL) typic= al mission profile. This Manned Lunar Landing Profile was designed by B.E= . Abbott, PE., a longtime NASA engineer. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Microscopic Nanotubes Could Make Ships Lightweight, Superstrong http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/nanotube_concepts_0202= 06-1.html Nanotechnology has held a special place in the hearts of science fiction = writers for decades. On the printed page and flickering screen, nanites a= nd nanobots have swarmed through the human body, assembled themselves int= o great towers, and formed clouds in orbit of alien worlds. * NEW! The Blue Marble http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php Check out these spectacular 'blue marble' images: the most detailed true-= color images of the entire Earth to date. * Are There Other Universes? http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/5mysteries_universes= _020205-1.html The irresistible, mind-boggling fantasy comes to just about everyone, soo= ner or later: What if everything we knew, our whole universe, was just a = speck of dust on someone's shoulder? ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Shuttle Overhaul Work Headed to Florida from California http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/shuttle_020205.html In a bid to save money in the face of dwindling budgets, NASA officials s= aid Tuesday that future space shuttle overhaul work will be moved to Flor= ida from the factory where the agency's four orbiters were built in Calif= ornia. * Solar Science Probe Finally Reaches Orbit Atop Pegasus Rocket http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/pegasus_launch_020205.html Patience proved to be a virtue again Tuesday as NASA finally launched an = $85 million solar science mission into Earth orbit, overcoming a frustrat= ing 18-month period of delays caused by a test mishap and a series of fai= lures with other rockets. * NASA To Go Nuclear; Spaceflight Initiative Approved http://www.space.com/news/nasa_nuclear_020205.html For the first time in a decade, NASA has been given the go-ahead to say t= he "N" word - nuclear power for space. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * NASA Kills Europa Orbiter; Revamps Planetary Exploration http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html NASA announced the cancellation of a planned mission to the jovian moon E= uropa but also unveiled a new series of planetary exploration probes duri= ng a Feb. 4 briefing on the agency's 2003 budget request. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (February 6, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. Region 9802 m= ay yet produce an isolated major flare before exiting the west limb. 3-Day Aurora Forecast The geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled le= vels Tuesday. Active conditions may be expected Wednesday and Thursday du= e to the effects of a large coronal hole. Additionally, a slight chance o= f isolated minor storm levels could occur at higher latitudes. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 274, and the solar wind speed recently cloc= ked in at 428 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 7.8 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day= .) http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html ------------------------------------- Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! 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----- Original Message -----

From: spacenews@SPACE.COM

Sent: = Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:59 PM

Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, February 6, = 2002

Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, February 6, = 2002 -- http://www.space.com/

In today's issue:

/----------= ---------------------------

The most comprehensive Virtual Exhibit= Hall for the Space Industry - an online resource for space industry engi= neers and managers to find technical information and news about space-qua= lified components, manufacturers, service providers and software companie= s - all in a categorized, easy-to-use, online database! Visit http:= //www.AstroExpo.com and find what you need!
http://www.AstroExpo.com
-------------------------------------/

Featured Space Store = Product
* Manned Lunar Landing Profile Poster

Science/Astronomy= :
* Microscopic Nanotubes Could Make Ships Lightweight, Superstrong* NEW! The Blue Marble
* Are There Other Universes?

Missions/L= aunches:
* Shuttle Overhaul Work Headed to Florida from California
= * Solar Science Probe Finally Reaches Orbit Atop Pegasus Rocket
* NASA= To Go Nuclear; Spaceflight Initiative Approved

Business/Industry:=
* NASA Kills Europa Orbiter; Revamps Planetary Exploration

Plu= s...

* SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch
* Solar and Space We= ather
* Starry Night, TeamSETI
* Space Age Jobs
* SPACE.com Affi= liate Program

-----------------------------------

* Manned = Lunar Landing Profile Poster
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/t= echnology/holidaygiftguide_2001-1.html

A complete summary of all t= he steps in a Manned Lunar Landing (MLL) typical mission profile. This Ma= nned Lunar Landing Profile was designed by B.E. Abbott, PE., a longtime N= ASA engineer.

-----------------------------------

Today in = Science/Astronomy:

* Microscopic Nanotubes Could Make Ships Lightw= eight, Superstrong
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/= nanotube_concepts_020206-1.html

Nanotechnology has held a special = place in the hearts of science fiction writers for decades. On the printe= d page and flickering screen, nanites and nanobots have swarmed through t= he human body, assembled themselves into great towers, and formed clouds = in orbit of alien worlds.

* NEW! The Blue Marble
http://www.spa= ce.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php

Check out these spectacu= lar 'blue marble' images: the most detailed true-color images of the enti= re Earth to date.

* Are There Other Universes?
http://www.space= .com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/5mysteries_universes_020205-1.html
The irresistible, mind-boggling fantasy comes to just about everyon= e, sooner or later: What if everything we knew, our whole universe, was j= ust a speck of dust on someone's shoulder?

-----------------------= ------------

Today in Missions/Launches:

* Shuttle Overhaul= Work Headed to Florida from California
http://www.space.com/missionla= unches/shuttle_020205.html

In a bid to save money in the face of d= windling budgets, NASA officials said Tuesday that future space shuttle o= verhaul work will be moved to Florida from the factory where the agency's= four orbiters were built in California.

* Solar Science Probe Fin= ally Reaches Orbit Atop Pegasus Rocket
http://www.space.com/missionlau= nches/pegasus_launch_020205.html

Patience proved to be a virtue ag= ain Tuesday as NASA finally launched an $85 million solar science mission= into Earth orbit, overcoming a frustrating 18-month period of delays cau= sed by a test mishap and a series of failures with other rockets.

= * NASA To Go Nuclear; Spaceflight Initiative Approved
http://www.space= .com/news/nasa_nuclear_020205.html

For the first time in a decade,= NASA has been given the go-ahead to say the "N" word - nuclear power for= space.

------------------------------------

Today in Busin= ess/Industry:

* NASA Kills Europa Orbiter; Revamps Planetary Explo= ration
http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html

NASA announced= the cancellation of a planned mission to the jovian moon Europa but also= unveiled a new series of planetary exploration probes during a Feb. 4 br= iefing on the agency's 2003 budget request.

----------------------= --------------

* SpaceTV:
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/s= pacetv/

* Space Age Gear:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnolo= gy/technology/space_gear-1.html

* SpaceWatch:
http://www.space.= com/spacewatch/

* Space Age Jobs
http://www.space.com/php/caree= rs/

* Uplink: Share your opinion!
http://uplink.space.com/
<= BR>-------------------------------------

SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (= February 6, 2002)

3-Day Solar Forecast
Solar activity is expect= ed to be at low to moderate levels. Region 9802 may yet produce an isolat= ed major flare before exiting the west limb.

3-Day Aurora Forecast=
The geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettle= d levels Tuesday. Active conditions may be expected Wednesday and Thursda= y due to the effects of a large coronal hole. Additionally, a slight chan= ce of isolated minor storm levels could occur at higher latitudes.
Solar Data
The current sunspot number is 274, and the solar wind spee= d recently clocked in at 428 kilometers per second.

The solar wind= density was 7.8 protons per cubic centimeter.

(Speed and density = values are snapshots in time and change during the day.)

http://ww= w.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html

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Sign up to become part of the greatest search in his= tory! Join TeamSETI:
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h= ttp://www.starrynight.com/index.html

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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AF17.6B8E6FD0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Feb 6 20:04:31 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1744Rc27809 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id WAA00673 for bioastro-list; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:55:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe116.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.109]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00663 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:55:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:54:26 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.61.32] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:54:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AF61.31D73340" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2002 03:54:26.0274 (UTC) FILETIME=[22D45420:01C1AF8B] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AF61.31D73340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Gonzales Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:36 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER Feb. 6, 2002: Greetings from Dennis Gonzales. We're still busy loading new photos, sound bytes and articles on the web = site. This is what we have so far: New movies from the Tech Museum's "2001: Destination Space" (more to fol= low) http://www.2001exhibit.org/exhibits/usa3/exhibit25.html Larry Evans, president of the Orange County Space Society, reviews the Eg= yptian Theater's "2001" exhibit during the run of the film that he put to= gether. http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2001films2.html Photographer William Faulkner submits a new picture of Scott Alexander's = Discovery One at the Tech Museum. http://www.2001exhibit.org/exhibits/us= a3/exhibit21.html And http://www.2001exhibit.org/science/scott_discovery8.html http://www.2001exhibit.org/science/scott_discovery9.html I've also been extremely busy working at my new job at NASA the past 4 we= eks and it's been a little insane in my life. During the evenings, I hel= p photographer and model builder, Mark Watson on the HAL 9000 brain-room = and many other volunteers help me update the website. We'll add more feat= ures on the site next week and Gary Lockwood is coming to my job next wee= k so we hope to capture him on film too. Send me anything "space odyssey= " related for next week's newsletter. See you next Wednesday (Frank). *************************************************************************= *********** Message from "2001" collector Mark Blunck: "Could you send out to your email group a question on the quality of the 2001 DVD Collector's Edition by Creative Design Arts. Has anyone purchased this an= d how is the quality? Any help will be appreciated." You can reach Mark at blunckm@yahoo.com Posted by Dennis Gonzales *************************************************************************= *********** More Arthur C. Clarke news! Check out these great recent pictures of Clarke. http://www.reuters.com/photo_gallery_pres.jhtml?imageID=3D1000080876&type= =3Dente and http://www.reuters.com/photo_gallery_pres.jhtml?imageID=3D1000080461&type= entertainmentnews Posted by Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com *************************************************************************= *********** Projects in progress or underway: 2001 Exhibition : Featuring Harry Lange's (2001 designer) original works http://www.harry-lange.org.uk "2001: l'odyss=BBe des maquettes" exhibit will present on tour in France, with "2001" models displayed in chronological order as in the film with a 1/1 scale monolith. http://www.multimania.com/dixiemeplanete/expo2001.htm Clavius Moonbase model coming soon. Edward Martinez. Lunar Models Space Pod and ARIES coming soon. Dennis Gonzales and Mark Watson. HAL 9000 Model from Lunar Models built by Vince Hoffmann. Coming Soon! HAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.com. Coming Soon! SAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.com. Coming Soon! The Space:1999 Collectible and Nostalgic online exhibit is under construction. If you own,any original or scratch built models or artwork you want to display on the virtual exhibit, contact Dennis Gonzales, exhibit coordinator for details. The website will soon. http://www.2001exhibit.org/space1999.html. 2001 costumes are under construction. The costumes will be completely f= aithful in honor of fashion designer Hardy Amies. Photos will be on-lin= e soon of the PAN AM female outfit re-created by costume designer, And= rea Edelman. ********************************************************************* Posted by: Dennis Gonzales 2001: A Space Odyssey Collectibles Exhibit. http://www.2001exhibit.org Tel: 650-604-0429 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be removed from this mailing list click on the link below http://www.2001exhibit.org/mailing/mail.cgi?ljk4@msn.com ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AF61.31D73340 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<= DIV>
=
----- Original Message -----

From: Dennis Gonzales

Sent: Wedn= esday, February 06, 2002 10:36 PM

<= B>To: ljk4@msn.com

Subject:<= /B> THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER

Feb. 6, 2002:
=
Greetings from Dennis Gonzales.

We're still busy loading new p= hotos, sound bytes and articles on the web site. This is what we ha= ve so far:

New movies from the Tech Museum's "2001: Destination Sp= ace" (more to follow)
http://www.2001exhibit.org/exhibits/usa3/e= xhibit25.html

Larry Evans, president of the Orange County Space So= ciety, reviews the Egyptian Theater's "2001" exhibit during the run of th= e film that he put together. http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2001f= ilms2.html

Photographer William Faulkner submits a new picture of = Scott Alexander's Discovery One at the Tech Museum. http://www.2001= exhibit.org/exhibits/usa3/exhibit21.html

And

http://www.200= 1exhibit.org/science/scott_discovery8.html

http://www.2001exhibit.= org/science/scott_discovery9.html

I've also been extremely bus= y working at my new job at NASA the past 4 weeks and it's been a little i= nsane in my life. During the evenings, I help photographer and mode= l builder, Mark Watson on the HAL 9000 brain-room and many other voluntee= rs help me update the website. We'll add more features on the site next w= eek and Gary Lockwood is coming to my job next week so we hope to capture= him on film too. Send me anything "space odyssey" related for next= week's newsletter.

See you next Wednesday (Frank).

***= *************************************************************************= ********

Message from "2001" collector Mark Blunck:

"Could = you send out to your email
group a question on the quality of the 2001= DVD
Collector's Edition by Creative Design Arts. Has anyone purchased= this and how is the quality?

Any help will be appreciated."
You can reach Mark at blunckm@yahoo.com
Posted by Dennis Gonzales
********************************************************************= ****************

More Arthur C. Clarke news!
Check out these gr= eat recent pictures of Clarke.

http://www.reuters.com/photo_ga= llery_pres.jhtml?imageID=3D1000080876&type=3Dente

and

h= ttp://www.reuters.com/photo_gallery_pres.jhtml?imageID=3D1000080461&t= ypeentertainmentnews

Posted by Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com<= BR>
******************************************************************= ******************

Projects in progress or underway:

2001 E= xhibition : Featuring Harry Lange's (2001 designer) original
works htt= p://www.harry-lange.org.uk

"2001: l'odyss=BBe des maquettes" exhib= it will present on tour in France,
with "2001" models displayed in chr= onological order as in the film with
a 1/1 scale monolith.
http://w= ww.multimania.com/dixiemeplanete/expo2001.htm

Clavius Moonbase mod= el coming soon. Edward Martinez.

Lunar Models Space Pod and = ARIES coming soon.   Dennis Gonzales and
Mark Watson.
HAL 9000 Model from Lunar Models built by Vince Hoffmann. Coming Soon!
HAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.com.Coming Soon!

SAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, Industrial= DNA@aol.com.
Coming Soon!

The Space:1999 Collectible and Nostal= gic online exhibit is under
construction. If you own,any original or s= cratch built models or
artwork you
want to display on the virtual e= xhibit, contact Dennis Gonzales,
exhibit coordinator for details. The = website will soon.
http://www.2001exhibit.org/space1999.html.

2= 001 costumes are under construction. The costumes will be completely = ; faithful in honor of fashion designer Hardy Amies. Photos will be=    on-line soon of the PAN AM female outfit re-created by costu= me designer,   Andrea Edelman.
***********************= **********************************************

Posted by:
Denni= s Gonzales
2001: A Space Odyssey Collectibles Exhibit.
http://www.2= 001exhibit.org
Tel: 650-604-0429

------------------------------= -------------------------------------------
To be removed from this ma= iling list
click on the link below
http://www.2001exhibit.org/maili= ng/mail.cgi?ljk4@msn.com

------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AF61.31D73340-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 7 06:29:54 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g17ETic24486 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:29:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id JAA29430 for bioastro-list; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:22:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe155.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.148]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29426 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:22:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:22:24 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.36] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Teleportation may be easier than we thought Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:22:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1AFB8.ECC3E930" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2002 14:22:24.0741 (UTC) FILETIME=[DCF22150:01C1AFE2] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1AFB8.ECC3E930 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Teleporting atoms and molecules may be easier than we thought http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991888 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1AFB8.ECC3E930 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Teleporting at= oms and molecules may be easier than we thought

http://www= .newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99991888

------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1AFB8.ECC3E930-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 7 14:12:09 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g17MC8c01848 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:12:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id RAA20793 for bioastro-list; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:05:18 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe91.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.233]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20785 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:05:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:04:39 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.61.21] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: News From Prometheus and Articles of Note Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:27:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFE3.83379720" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2002 22:04:39.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[705B2550:01C1B023] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFE3.83379720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Karr Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:16 PM To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: News From Prometheus and Articles of Note The foreign-rights division of Prometheus Books has announced that it > signed 49 new book contracts in 16 countries in the year 2001. The list= of > books and countries is below. The countries include Japan, China, Spain > (available also in South America), Malaysia, Poland, Korea, Thailand, > Russia (available in neighboring Republics), Italy, Per=FA, Turkey, the > Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Brazil (and Portugal), the United > Kingdom, and Taiwan. > > All told, over 424 books have been translated into 40 languages in the > past 10 years. > > Prometheus, now 33 years old, is the largest secular humanism, > freethought, and skeptical press in the world. > > Antisocial Behavior - Japan - Tuttle-Mori > The Art of Becoming Human - China - Front Publishing > The Art of Becoming Human - Spanish - Panorama > Atheism - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Battling the Inner Dummy - Turkey > Business Ethics - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Caring for the Alzheimer Patient - Spanish - Ediciones Tempora > Caring for the Parkinson Patient - Spanish - Ediciones Tempora > Clear Thinking - Korea - Seokwangsa Publishing Company > Conquering Rheumatoid Arthritis - Spanish - Alfaomega > Culture Wars and the Global Village - China - Guizhou People's Publishi= ng > House > Cyberethics - China - Guizhou People's Publish House > Decisions, Decisions - Korea - Book Cosmos > Einstein's Brainchild - Netherlands - Tirion > Einstein's Brainchild - Taiwan > Einstein's Brainchild - Spanish - Aguilar/Grupo Santillana > Einstein's Brainchild - Korea - Yang Moon > Einstein's Brainchild - Portuguese - Editora Perspectiva > The Evil We Do - Chile - Cuatro Vientos Editorial > The Evil We Do - China - Living Psychology Publishers > The Evil We Do - Czech Republic - Redaktor > The Faith Healers - China - Xinhua > Great Essays in Science - Korea - Gummyoungsa Publishers > In the Mind's Eye - Brazil - Angela M.F. Alem > Islamic Mysticism - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > It's Not the Glass Ceiling, It's the Sticky Floor - Korea - Book Cosmos > The Joy of Self-Pleasuring - Korea - Hanul Publishing Company > The Love Songs of Sappho - UK - Chester Music > Manic Depression and Creativity - China - Living Psychology Publishers > The Mask of Nostradamus - China - Xinhua > Michel Foucault's Force of Flight - Turkey - Ayrinti Yayinlari > Old Tales for a New Day - Czech Republic - Redaktor > Philosophy in Crisis - Spanish - Gedisa > Pseudoscience and the Paranormal - China - Xinhua > Qigong - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus - China - Shanghai Copyright > Science Meets Alternative Medicine - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Science vs. Religion - Poland - Graal > Sex without Love - Korea - The Agency > Starry Night - Doubleday Select/Astronomy Book Club > Test Your Science IQ - China - Hai Nam Publishing > Test Your Science IQ - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Test Your Science IQ - Thailand - Kobfai Publishing Project > The Truth about Everything - Russia - Ast Publishers > The Wandering Womb - China - Guizhou Publishing House > The Wandering Womb - Korea - Book Cosmos > Why Atheism? - Malaysia - Peer Mohd > Why I Am Not a Muslim - Italy - Edizioni Ariele > The Defense of Reason: Essays in Humanism and Skepticism - Per=FA - > Ediciones de Filosofia Aplicada ************************************************* Media goofed on Antarctic data by Keay Davidson San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/c/a/2002/02/04/MN159039.DT= L "To most people, Antarctica is just a big, dumb block of ice swarming wit= h penguins." Indiana Mystery Creature Baffles WEWS-TV http://www.newsnet5.com/news/1218326/detail.html "Rick Deckard looks at the footprints on the ground near his property and is certain of two things." Human Sacrifice in London? By Andrew Chang ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/britain020204_muti.html "The body discovered in the Thames River on Sept. 21 last year raised ala= rm bells from the start. It belonged to a boy, aged 5 to 7 years old, of Afro-Caribbean descent, and it was missing its head, arms and legs." Support for creationism resurfaces By Leo Shane III Cincinnati Enquirer http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/04/loc_support_for.html "Evolution is still in Ohio's classrooms, but the creationism debate is back in the Ohio Statehouse." Standing stones on wild hill remain a puzzle By TRUDY TYNAN Associated Press http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/State/Story/41850.html "As cold and lonely as the winter sky, the standing stones atop Burnt Hil= l have snagged the imagination of fiction writers and generations of blueberry pickers." IRS issues tax scam reparations warning By Richard Craver High Point Enterprise http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D3170222&BRD=3D1332&PAG=3D461& dept_id=3D414366&rfi=3D6 "The latest version of a tax scam focusing on slavery reparations has bee= n reported in High Point and the Triad." Great Salt Lake makes for tall tales Reuters http://www.msnbc.com/news/698978.asp "Anyone who takes a break from the Winter Olympics to visit the lake whic= h gives Salt Lake City its name could find themselves coming face to face with a 19th century grave digger. Or so local legend has it." Scientologists Open Hotel Doors To Community By NATASHIA GREGOIRE Tampa Tribune http://tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGA2FN9A8XC.html "The pool at the Fort Harrison Hotel holds some of Liz Roche's fondest childhood memories." Anthroplogist speculates that creature might be exotic bear By Kurt Van der Dussen Bloomington Herald-Times http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/2002/02/02/news.020202_HT_A1_PM027648= .sto "It's almost certainly not an ape, but it might be some sort of exotic be= ar." Weather lore vs. modern science By Sharon Denning Odessa American http://www.oaoa.com/news/nw020102a.htm "When a fellow wearing a top hat and tuxedo pulls that grouchy-looking groundhog out of his hole in Punxsutawney, Pa., Saturday morning, West Texans, along with most Americans, won't put much stock in his prediction= s." Prosecutors in Massachusetts fight for custody of sect member's baby - if there is a baby Associated Press http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ap_sect01302002.htm "The state of Massachusetts is trying to take away a baby it has never se= en and cannot prove exists." A Gaggle of Quackery Going Mainstream By STEPHANIE SIMON Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-020402quack.story "Feeling run-down? A bit saggy of spirit? Step right up to the Orgone Energy Accumulator. It looks like a coffin, but it's filled with pure energy. Sit inside and soak up vigor." Experts to weigh in on science standards by Catherine Candisky Columbus Dispatch http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=3Ddispatch/news/news02/feb02= /106985 1.html "Scientists from throughout the nation are being summoned to help the Ohi= o Board of Education decide whether students should be taught that life on Earth is the result of evolution or intelligent design." Lawsuits in Miss Cleo's future by DIANA GRIEGO ERWIN Scripps-McClatchy Western Service http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/240837p-2290176c.html "OK, Miss Cleo of head-wrapped TV fame." Selling the Moon By Jack Karp TechTV http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/internetfraud/story/0,23008,3369944,00.h= tml "A bridge in Brooklyn. Swampland in Florida. Since retailers first starte= d selling goods, there have been people trying to trick naive buyers into wasting money on nonexistent products. Is that what Dennis Hope is doing?= " Myth Versus Miracle By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23841-2002Feb4.html "Was Juan Diego an Aztec to whom the Virgin Mary appeared almost 500 year= s ago? Or is he simply the leading character in a feel-good fairy tale?" ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFE3.83379720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: Barry Karr

Sent: Thursday,= February 07, 2002 2:16 PM

To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

Subject: News From Prometheus and Articles of Note

&nb= sp;
The foreign-rights division of Prometheus Books has announced th= at it
> signed 49 new book contracts in 16 countries in the year 20= 01. The list of
> books and countries is below. The countries inclu= de Japan, China, Spain
> (available also in South America), Malaysi= a, Poland, Korea, Thailand,
> Russia (available in neighboring Repu= blics), Italy, Per=FA, Turkey, the
> Netherlands, the Czech Republi= c, Brazil (and Portugal), the United
> Kingdom, and Taiwan.
>=
> All told, over 424 books have been translated into 40 languages = in the
> past 10 years.
>
> Prometheus, now 33 years ol= d, is the largest secular humanism,
> freethought, and skeptical pr= ess in the world.
>
> Antisocial Behavior - Japan - Tuttle-Mo= ri
> The Art of Becoming Human - China - Front Publishing
> T= he Art of Becoming Human - Spanish - Panorama
> Atheism - Malaysia = - Peer Mohd
> Battling the Inner Dummy - Turkey
> Business Et= hics - Malaysia - Peer Mohd
> Caring for the Alzheimer Patient - Sp= anish - Ediciones Tempora
> Caring for the Parkinson Patient - Span= ish - Ediciones Tempora
> Clear Thinking - Korea - Seokwangsa Publi= shing Company
> Conquering Rheumatoid Arthritis - Spanish - Alfaome= ga
> Culture Wars and the Global Village - China - Guizhou People's= Publishing
> House
> Cyberethics - China - Guizhou People's = Publish House
> Decisions, Decisions - Korea - Book Cosmos
> = Einstein's Brainchild - Netherlands - Tirion
> Einstein's Brainchil= d - Taiwan
> Einstein's Brainchild - Spanish - Aguilar/Grupo Santil= lana
> Einstein's Brainchild - Korea - Yang Moon
> Einstein's= Brainchild - Portuguese - Editora Perspectiva
> The Evil We Do - C= hile - Cuatro Vientos Editorial
> The Evil We Do - China - Living P= sychology Publishers
> The Evil We Do - Czech Republic - Redaktor> The Faith Healers - China - Xinhua
> Great Essays in Science= - Korea - Gummyoungsa Publishers
> In the Mind's Eye - Brazil - An= gela M.F. Alem
> Islamic Mysticism - Malaysia - Peer Mohd
> I= t's Not the Glass Ceiling, It's the Sticky Floor - Korea - Book Cosmos> The Joy of Self-Pleasuring - Korea - Hanul Publishing Company
&g= t; The Love Songs of Sappho - UK - Chester Music
> Manic Depression= and Creativity - China - Living Psychology Publishers
> The Mask o= f Nostradamus - China - Xinhua
> Michel Foucault's Force of Flight = - Turkey - Ayrinti Yayinlari
> Old Tales for a New Day - Czech Repu= blic - Redaktor
> Philosophy in Crisis - Spanish - Gedisa
> P= seudoscience and the Paranormal - China - Xinhua
> Qigong - Malaysi= a - Peer Mohd
> Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus - China - Shanghai Co= pyright
> Science Meets Alternative Medicine - Malaysia - Peer Mohd=
> Science vs. Religion - Poland - Graal
> Sex without Love -= Korea - The Agency
> Starry Night - Doubleday Select/Astronomy Boo= k Club
> Test Your Science IQ - China - Hai Nam Publishing
> = Test Your Science IQ - Malaysia - Peer Mohd
> Test Your Science IQ = - Thailand - Kobfai Publishing Project
> The Truth about Everything= - Russia - Ast Publishers
> The Wandering Womb - China - Guizhou P= ublishing House
> The Wandering Womb - Korea - Book Cosmos
> = Why Atheism? - Malaysia - Peer Mohd
> Why I Am Not a Muslim - Italy= - Edizioni Ariele
> The Defense of Reason: Essays in Humanism and = Skepticism - Per=FA -
> Ediciones de Filosofia Aplicada

=
*************************************************
Media goofed on = Antarctic data
by Keay Davidson
San Francisco Chronicle
http://w= ww.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/c/a/2002/02/04/MN159039.DTL
"To most people, Antarctica is just a big, dumb block of ice swarming wi= th
penguins."

Indiana Mystery Creature Baffles
WEWS-TVhttp://www.newsnet5.com/news/1218326/detail.html

"Rick Deckard l= ooks at the footprints on the ground near his property and
is certain = of two things."

Human Sacrifice in London?
By Andrew Chang<= BR>ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/britain0202= 04_muti.html

"The body discovered in the Thames River on Sept. 21 = last year raised alarm
bells from the start. It belonged to a boy, age= d 5 to 7 years old, of
Afro-Caribbean descent, and it was missing its = head, arms and legs."

Support for creationism resurfaces
By= Leo Shane III
Cincinnati Enquirer
http://enquirer.com/editions/200= 2/02/04/loc_support_for.html

"Evolution is still in Ohio's classro= oms, but the creationism debate is
back in the Ohio Statehouse."

Standing stones on wild hill remain a puzzle
By TRUDY TYNAN
A= ssociated Press
http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/State/Story/41850.= html

"As cold and lonely as the winter sky, the standing stones at= op Burnt Hill
have snagged the imagination of fiction writers and gene= rations of
blueberry pickers."

IRS issues tax scam reparati= ons warning
By Richard Craver
High Point Enterprise
http://www.z= wire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D3170222&BRD=3D1332&PAG=3D461&=
dept_id=3D414366&rfi=3D6

"The latest version of a tax scam= focusing on slavery reparations has been
reported in High Point and t= he Triad."

Great Salt Lake makes for tall tales
Reuters
= http://www.msnbc.com/news/698978.asp

"Anyone who takes a break fro= m the Winter Olympics to visit the lake which
gives Salt Lake City its= name could find themselves coming face to face
with a 19th century gr= ave digger. Or so local legend has it."

Scientologists Open Ho= tel Doors To Community
By NATASHIA GREGOIRE
Tampa Tribune
http:/= /tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGA2FN9A8XC.html

"The pool at the Fort= Harrison Hotel holds some of Liz Roche's fondest
childhood memories."=

Anthroplogist speculates that creature might be exotic bearBy Kurt Van der Dussen
Bloomington Herald-Times
http://www.hoosie= rtimes.com/stories/2002/02/02/news.020202_HT_A1_PM027648.sto

"It's= almost certainly not an ape, but it might be some sort of exotic bear."<= BR>

Weather lore vs. modern science
By Sharon Denning
Odessa= American
http://www.oaoa.com/news/nw020102a.htm

"When a fellow= wearing a top hat and tuxedo pulls that grouchy-looking
groundhog out= of his hole in Punxsutawney, Pa., Saturday morning, West
Texans, alon= g with most Americans, won't put much stock in his predictions."

<= BR>Prosecutors in Massachusetts fight for custody of sect member's baby -= if
there is a baby
Associated Press
http://www2.bostonherald.co= m/news/local_regional/ap_sect01302002.htm

"The state of Massachuse= tts is trying to take away a baby it has never seen
and cannot prove e= xists."

A Gaggle of Quackery Going Mainstream
By STEPHA= NIE SIMON
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printeditio= n/front/la-020402quack.story

"Feeling run-down? A bit saggy of spi= rit? Step right up to the Orgone
Energy Accumulator. It looks like a c= offin, but it's filled with pure
energy. Sit inside and soak up vigor.= "

Experts to weigh in on science standards
by Catherine= Candisky
Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?= story=3Ddispatch/news/news02/feb02/106985

1.html

"Scientist= s from throughout the nation are being summoned to help the Ohio
Board= of Education decide whether students should be taught that life on
Ea= rth is the result of evolution or intelligent design."

Lawsuit= s in Miss Cleo's future
by DIANA GRIEGO ERWIN
Scripps-McClatchy Wes= tern Service
http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/240837p-2290176c= .html

"OK, Miss Cleo of head-wrapped TV fame."

Selling = the Moon
By Jack Karp
TechTV
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/in= ternetfraud/story/0,23008,3369944,00.html

"A bridge in Brooklyn. S= wampland in Florida. Since retailers first started
selling goods, ther= e have been people trying to trick naive buyers into
wasting money on = nonexistent products. Is that what Dennis Hope is doing?"

= Myth Versus Miracle
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post
http://www= .washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23841-2002Feb4.html

"Was Juan= Diego an Aztec to whom the Virgin Mary appeared almost 500 years
ago?= Or is he simply the leading character in a feel-good fairy tale?"
------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFE3.83379720-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 7 14:12:44 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g17MChc26910 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:12:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id RAA20852 for bioastro-list; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:06:33 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe131.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.124]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20848 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:06:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:05:59 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.61.21] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Paranal Residencia, "Life in the Universe" video, Public imaging surveys Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:05:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFF9.A90921B0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2002 22:05:59.0929 (UTC) FILETIME=[A016FE90:01C1B023] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFF9.A90921B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: esonews@eso.org Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:49 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Paranal Residencia, "Life in the Universe" video, Public imaging= surveys Dear subscribers, various new items have just been published at the ESO website: 1. A picture story (PR Photos 05a-o/02) about the new Paranal Residencia, now ready to receive ESO staff and visiting astronomers who observe with the VLT, at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-05-02.html 2. PR Video Clip 01/02 about the new film from the Final Event of the EU-sponsored, ESO/ESA/CERN/EAAE-EMBL/ESRF "Life in the Universe" educational programme that was held at CERN in November 2001, and featuring a 7-min video clip at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/vid-01-02.html 3. ESO has issued a call for ideas for future Public Imaging Surveys meant to provide the ESO community with survey products in support of the VLT science and obtained with the instrumentation available at ESO Observatories. The details are available at: http://www.eso.org/science/eis/eis_geninfo/eis_prop/call2002.html With kind regards, The ESO EPR Dept. For information: You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to the "esonews" mailing list. To unsubscribe from this notification service, please send a message to majordomo@eso.org with unsubscribe esonews your-email-address in the message body. Please contact webmaster@eso.org if you need further assistance . ESO Press Information is available on Receive email notification the WWW at about important news from ESO - http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/. subscribe to the ESO-NEWS Mailing List. ESO Education & Public Relations Department Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1AFF9.A90921B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: esonews@eso.org

Sent: Thur= sday, February 07, 2002 3:49 PM

= To: ljk4@msn.com

Subject: Paranal Residencia, "Life in the Universe" video, Public imaging survey= s

Dear subscribers,

various new items h= ave just been published at the ESO website:

1. A picture story (PR= Photos 05a-o/02) about the new Paranal
Residencia, now ready to recei= ve ESO staff and visiting astronomers
who observe with the VLT, at:
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-05-02.html
2. PR Video Clip 01/02 about the new film from the Final
Event of the= EU-sponsored, ESO/ESA/CERN/EAAE-EMBL/ESRF
"Life in the Universe" educ= ational programme that was held
at CERN in November 2001, and featurin= g a 7-min video clip
at:

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/= pr-2002/vid-01-02.html

3. ESO has issued a call for ideas for futu= re Public Imaging Surveys
meant to provide the ESO community with surv= ey products in support
of the VLT science and obtained with the instru= mentation available at
ESO Observatories. The details are available at= :

http://www.eso.org/science/eis/eis_geninfo/eis_prop/call2002.htm= l

With kind regards,

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------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C1B01D.AB4D3AF0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 7 18:38:54 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g182crc25004 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:38:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id VAA03092 for bioastro-list; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:27:07 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe99.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.241]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03082 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:27:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:26:32 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.192] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Hubble Reveals Oddball "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:26:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B01E.11E2D3B0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Feb 2002 02:26:32.0424 (UTC) FILETIME=[05C86E80:01C1B048] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B01E.11E2D3B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: JPLNews@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:04 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Hubble Reveals Oddball "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Contact: JPL/Jane Platt (818) 354-0880 Space Telescope Science Institute/Ray Villard (410) 338-4514 IMAGE ADVISORY February 7, 2002 HUBBLE REVEALS ODDBALL "BACKWARDS" SPIRAL GALAXY Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a spiral = galaxy that may rotate in the opposite direction from what was expected. A picture of the oddball galaxy is available at http://heritage.stsc= i.edu or http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2002/03 or http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/im= ages/wfpc . It was taken in May 2001 by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and b= uilt by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The picture showed which side of galaxy NGC 4622 is closer to Earth;= that information helped astronomers determine that the galaxy may be spinning clockwise. = The image shows NGC 4622 and its outer pair of winding arms full of new stars, shown in blue. Astronomers are puzzled by the clockwise rotation because of the dir= ection the outer spiral arms are pointing. Most spiral galaxies have arms of gas and stars that t= rail behind as they turn. But this galaxy has two "leading" outer arms that point toward the direction = of the galaxy's clockwise rotation. NGC 4622 also has a "trailing" inner arm that is wrapped aroun= d the galaxy in the opposite direction. Based on galaxy simulations, a team of astronomers ha= d expected that the galaxy was turning counterclockwise. NGC 4622 is a rare example of a spiral galaxy with arms pointing in = opposite directions. Astronomers suspect this oddity was caused by the interaction of NGC 4622= with another galaxy. Its two outer arms are lopsided, meaning that something disturbed it. The= new Hubble image suggests that NGC 4622 consumed a smaller companion galaxy. Galaxies, which consist of stars, gas, and dust, rotate very slowly.= Our Sun, one of many stars in our Milky Way galaxy, completes a circuit around the Milky Way e= very 250 million years. NGC 4622 lies 111 million light-years away in the direction of the conste= llation Centaurus. The science team, consisting of Drs. Ron Buta and Gene Byrd from the= University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and Tarsh Freeman of Bevill State Community College = in Alabama, observed NGC 4622 in ultraviolet, infrared, and blue and green filters. = Their composite image and science findings were presented at the January 2002 American Astronomical= Society meeting. Image Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknow= ledgment: Dr. Ron Buta (U. Alabama), Dr. Gene Byrd (U. Alabama) and Tarsh Freeman (Bevill S= tate Comm. College) # # # # # 02/07/02 JP 2002-033 --------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to JPL's news mailing list. To unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to JPLNews@jpl.nasa.gov and in the body of the message include the following line. unsubscribe news Please do not reply to this e-mail. For help, send a message to listmaster@www.jpl.nasa.gov. ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B01E.11E2D3B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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IMAGE ADVISORY February 7, 2002

HUBBLE REV= EALS ODDBALL "BACKWARDS" SPIRAL GALAXY

     As= tronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a spiral galaxy = that may
rotate in the opposite direction from what was expected.
<= BR>     A picture of the oddball galaxy is available = at http://heritage.stsci.edu or
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/20= 02/03 or http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc . It was taken
in M= ay 2001 by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built= by NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

&n= bsp;   The picture showed which side of galaxy NGC 4622 is clos= er to Earth; that information
helped astronomers determine that the ga= laxy may be spinning clockwise. The image shows NGC
4622 and its= outer pair of winding arms full of new stars, shown in blue.

&nbs= p;    Astronomers are puzzled by the clockwise rotation be= cause of the direction the outer spiral
arms are pointing. Most spiral= galaxies have arms of gas and stars that trail behind as they turn. But<= BR>this galaxy has two "leading" outer arms that point toward the directi= on of the galaxy's clockwise
rotation. NGC 4622 also has a "trai= ling" inner arm that is wrapped around the galaxy in the
opposite dire= ction. Based on galaxy simulations, a team of astronomers had expected th= at the galaxy
was turning counterclockwise.

   &= nbsp; NGC 4622 is a rare example of a spiral galaxy with arms pointing in= opposite directions.
Astronomers suspect this oddity was caused by th= e interaction of NGC 4622 with another galaxy.
Its two outer arms are = lopsided, meaning that something disturbed it. The new Hubble image
su= ggests that NGC 4622 consumed a smaller companion galaxy.

&n= bsp;   Galaxies, which consist of stars, gas, and dust, rotate = very slowly. Our Sun, one of many
stars in our Milky Way galaxy, compl= etes a circuit around the Milky Way every 250 million years.
NGC 4622 = lies 111 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation C= entaurus.

     The science team, consisting of= Drs. Ron Buta and Gene Byrd from the University of
Alabama, Tuscaloos= a, and Tarsh Freeman of Bevill State Community College in Alabama,
obs= erved NGC 4622 in ultraviolet, infrared, and blue and green filters. = ; Their composite image and
science findings were presented at the Jan= uary 2002 American Astronomical Society meeting.

   = ; Image Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) = ; Acknowledgment: Dr. Ron
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------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B01E.11E2D3B0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 8 07:47:01 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g18Fl0c12386 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA09487 for bioastro-list; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:38:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe52.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.132]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09483 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:38:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:38:19 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.204] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Mars Rover model Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:38:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B08C.ADCF2B70" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Feb 2002 15:38:19.0174 (UTC) FILETIME=[A2033460:01C1B0B6] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B08C.ADCF2B70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:40 AM To: CUNEWS-CAMPUS-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Mars Rover model Student-built Mars Rover vehicle gets first showing at library Saturday FOR RELEASE: Feb. 7, 2002 Contact: David Brand Office: 607-255-3651 E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Mars Rover will be rolled out for the first time on Saturday in Ithaca. Not the real Mars Exploration Rover (MER), two of which will roam and study the surface of Mars in 2004, but a full-scale replica of a MER and its scientific instruments, made out of wood, plastic and aluminum. The model will be unveiled Saturday, Feb. 9, at 2 p.m. in Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca. Steven Squyres, Cornell University professor of astronomy, is the principal investigator on the Athena science payload to be carried by the long-range rovers. For much of the past year, students working with Squyres have been building the full-size model. The folding solar-panel "deck" of the MER has a span of nearly 8 feet by more than 5 feet, and the height from the wheels to the top of the tallest instrument is nearly 5 feet. Some of the students will be at the library with Diane Sherman, Athena project coordinator at Cornell's Department of Astronomy, to explain how the MER works and how the NASA mission will deliver it to Mars, as well as some of the information mission scientists hope to learn from the science instruments MER will carry. Sherman also will show a computer-generated video created by recent Cornell graduate Daniel Maas that dramatizes the mission with startling accuracy. The students who built the MER model include Ithaca College freshman Emily Dean; from Cornell, Phil Chu, mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) '02; Renee Hillaire, MAE '02; team leader Miles Johnson, MAE '02; Heather Arneson, MAE '02; and Matt Siegler, physics/film '03. -30- The web version of this release may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/Rover.model.deb.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B08C.ADCF2B70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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than 5 feet, and= the height from the wheels to the top of the tallest
instrument is ne= arly 5 feet.

Some of the students will be at the library with Dian= e Sherman,
Athena project coordinator at Cornell's Department of Astro= nomy, to
explain how the MER works and how the NASA mission will deliv= er it to
Mars, as well as some of the information mission scientists h= ope to
learn from the science instruments MER will carry.

Sherm= an also will show a computer-generated video created by recent
Cornell= graduate Daniel Maas that dramatizes the mission with
startling accur= acy.

The students who built the MER model include Ithaca College f= reshman
Emily Dean; from Cornell, Phil Chu, mechanical and aerospaceengineering (MAE) '02; Renee Hillaire, MAE '02; team leader Miles=
Johnson, MAE '02; Heather Arneson, MAE '02; and Matt Siegler,
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1B08F.97ABB8B0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Sun Feb 10 22:29:38 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1B6TXk32394 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:29:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA02160 for bioastro-list; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:23:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe74.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.216]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA02156 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:23:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:23:24 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.240] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: update.76 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:22:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B29A.A1D9D580" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2002 06:23:24.0123 (UTC) FILETIME=[9BDADAB0:01C1B2C4] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B29A.A1D9D580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: AIP listserver Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:37 AM To: physnews-mailing@aip.org Subject: update.76 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 576 February 7, 2002 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon A SLICE OF MICROBIAL LIFE. Many biologists find that truly understanding their subjects requires observing organisms in their natural habitats. Although fieldwork is often a challenge, oceanographers studying aquatic microbes face some particular difficulties. No conventional microscopes exist that can effectively capture images of micron-sized aquatic creatures in the field as they zip about at speeds up to hundreds of microns per second -- rates that may be unimpressive in our macroscopic world, but which are startlingly swift at high magnification. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California (Eran Fuchs, eran@mpl.ucsd.edu, 858-822-2825 ) are addressing the problem by focusing on improving microscope light sources, rather than the microscopes themselves. The new solution involves illuminating only a slice of a large sample with laser light spread into a sheet 23 microns thick. In contrast to systems that illuminate a large volume of material, a laser light sheet only illuminates the portion of space that lies precisely in the plane where the microscope is focused. The scheme eliminates the optical background noise that would otherwise come from unfocused objects. In addition, because light is directed exclusively to the region where it will be of the greatest benefit, the lighting is both efficient and bright. Owing to the difficulty of observing aquatic microbes in large volumes with conventional microscopes, the researchers explain, the natural behavior and interactions of the minuscule creatures are largely a mystery. Laser light sheet illumination should open an essentially unexplored realm of marine ecosystems to quantitative study. (E. Fuchs; J.S. Jaffe; R. A. Long; F. Azam, Optics Express, 1 February 2002; text at www.aip.org/physnews/select) LIGHT BENDS MAGNET. Previously, directed light has produced a magnetic response in metallic materials but physicists at Ohio State are now the first to produce light-induced magnetization in an organic material. The material, tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), was exposed to blue light which caused the magnetization to increase by as much as 50%. The new magnetism could then be undone by green light. The researchers (Arthur Epstein, 614-292-1133, epstein@mps.ohio-st.edu) believe that the light can be selectively targeted to domains as small (or smaller) as the wavelength of the light itself, thus possibly enabling information storage. Currently a magneto-optic effect is used to store information, but only in the write mode. The new process promises to offer both reading and writing capability. As usual, the benefits of using plastic electronic components include flexibility, low cost, and tunability. (Pejakovic et al., Physical Review Letters, 4 Feb; text at www.aip.org/physnews/select) WERNER HEISENBERG'S WARTIME VISIT to Niels Bohr, recently dramatized in Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen," has, sixty years after the event, just taken a new turn. In a letter made public yesterday for the first time, Bohr accuses Heisenberg of misleading others, in the aftermath of WW II, by claiming to have purposely undermined the German atom bomb effort. In the letter, composed around 1957, Bohr claims that in his recollection of their encounter Heisenberg seemed less ambivalent (and more knowledgeable) about building a bomb than Heisenberg later implied. This letter, now made public by the Niels Bohr Archive in Denmark (www.nba.nbi.dk), was never sent and has since Bohr's death in 1962 been sealed away, leaving physicists, historians, and now artists to wonder about Heisenberg's motives. Upcoming events surrounding the play "Copenhagen" include a month of performances at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; a daylong symposium on March 2 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/nml/artsci), including physicists, historians, the President's science advisor John Marburger, Heisenberg's son, and Bohr's grandson; and a session on the subject at the April APS meeting in Albuquerque. ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B29A.A1D9D580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Number 576&n= bsp; February 7, 2002   by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein,
and= James Riordon

A SLICE OF MICROBIAL LIFE. Many biologists fi= nd that truly
understanding their subjects requires observing organism= s in their
natural habitats. Although fieldwork is often a challenge,<= BR>oceanographers studying aquatic microbes face some particular
diffi= culties. No conventional microscopes exist that can effectively
captur= e images of micron-sized aquatic creatures in the field as
they zip ab= out at speeds up to hundreds of microns per second --
rates that may b= e unimpressive in our macroscopic world, but
which are startlingly swi= ft at high magnification. Researchers at
Scripps Institution of = Oceanography in California (Eran Fuchs,
eran@mpl.ucsd.edu, 858-822-282= 5 ) are addressing the problem
by focusing on improving microscope lig= ht sources, rather than the
microscopes themselves.
   Th= e new solution involves illuminating only a slice of a large
sample wi= th laser light spread into a sheet 23 microns thick. In
contrast to sy= stems that illuminate a large volume of material, a
laser light sheet = only illuminates the portion of space that lies
precisely in the plane= where the microscope is focused. The
scheme eliminates the optical ba= ckground noise that would
otherwise come from unfocused objects. In ad= dition, because light
is directed exclusively to the region where it w= ill be of the greatest
benefit, the lighting is both efficient and bri= ght. Owing to the
difficulty of observing aquatic microbes in la= rge volumes with
conventional microscopes, the researchers explain, th= e natural
behavior and interactions of the minuscule creatures are lar= gely a
mystery. Laser light sheet illumination should open an essentia= lly
unexplored realm of marine ecosystems to quantitative study. (E.Fuchs; J.S. Jaffe; R. A. Long; F. Azam, Optics Express, 1 February
2= 002; text at www.aip.org/physnews/select)

LIGHT BENDS MAGNET. = ; Previously, directed light has
produced a magnetic response in metal= lic materials but physicists
at Ohio State are now the first to produc= e light-induced
magnetization in an organic material. The materi= al,
tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), was exposed to blue light which
caus= ed the magnetization to increase by as much as 50%. The new
magn= etism could then be undone by green light. The researchers
(Arthur Eps= tein, 614-292-1133, epstein@mps.ohio-st.edu) believe
that the light ca= n be selectively targeted to domains as small (or
smaller) as the wave= length of the light itself, thus possibly
enabling information storage= . Currently a magneto-optic effect is
used to store information,= but only in the write mode. The new
process promises to offer b= oth reading and writing capability. As
usual, the benefits of us= ing plastic electronic components include
flexibility, low cost, and t= unability. (Pejakovic et al., Physical
Review Letters, 4 Feb; te= xt at www.aip.org/physnews/select)

WERNER HEISENBERG'S WARTIME VIS= IT to Niels Bohr,
recently dramatized in Michael Frayn's play "Copenha= gen," has,
sixty years after the event, just taken a new turn. I= n a letter made
public yesterday for the first time, Bohr accuses Heis= enberg of
misleading others, in the aftermath of WW II, by claiming to= have
purposely undermined the German atom bomb effort. In the l= etter,
composed around 1957, Bohr claims that in his recollection oftheir encounter Heisenberg seemed less ambivalent (and more
knowledg= eable) about building a bomb than Heisenberg later
implied. This= letter, now made public by the Niels Bohr Archive
in Denmark (www.nba= .nbi.dk), was never sent and has since
Bohr's death in 1962 been seale= d away, leaving physicists,
historians, and now artists to wonder abou= t Heisenberg's motives.
Upcoming events surrounding the play "Copenhag= en" include a
month of performances at Kennedy Center in Washington, D= C; a
daylong symposium on March 2 at the Smithsonian National
Museu= m of Natural History
(http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/nml/artsci), includi= ng physicists,
historians, the President's science advisor John Marbur= ger,
Heisenberg's son, and Bohr's grandson; and a session on the
su= bject at the April APS meeting in Albuquerque.
------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B29A.A1D9D580-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Sun Feb 10 22:41:27 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1B6fQk12897 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA02757 for bioastro-list; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:36:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe29.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.109]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA02753 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:36:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:35:59 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.17] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Finding more Jupiter-type worlds in the galaxy Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:35:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B29C.64F75E60" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2002 06:35:59.0704 (UTC) FILETIME=[5E375D80:01C1B2C6] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B29C.64F75E60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EXPERTS FIND MORE JUPITERS >From The Age, 7 February 2002 http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2002/02/07/FFXY41ZZBXC.html By DAVID WROE The possibility that alien life thrives in our galaxy has been boosted by Sydney physicists who say planets such as Jupiter, which protects the Ear= th from rogue asteroids, are more common than previously thought. Through some mathematical wizardry, the professor of astrophysics at the University of New South Wales, Charley Lineweaver, concluded that there w= ere 50 per cent more Jupiter-like planets among the Milky Way's 300 billion stars than previously thought. This means there may be 30 billion star systems capable of supporting lif= e. Scientists have found 74 planets outside the solar system by observing st= ars "wobbling" - a gravitational effect caused by orbiting planets. They are all many times the size of Jupiter and are close to their host stars, which is a poor condition for a star system to support life. Professor Lineweaver said that because of technical limitations, we could not see smaller planets. This had created the false statistical assumptio= n that most planets were very hot giants. "It's a bit like lining up everybody in the world and only looking at peo= ple above six foot eight and then you say, 'Wow, people are tall!"' he said. With a colleague, Daniel Grether, Professor Lineweaver rejigged the maths with what he calls "an unbiased sample". Jupiter's massive gravity acts as a shield, sucking in most rock debris l= eft over from the formation of the sun and the solar system before it can threaten Earth through a catastrophic asteroid collision such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. It is believed life on Earth did not begin to develop beyond single-cell organisms until the heaviest cosmic bombardment of ceased about 3.8 billi= on years ago. "It tells us that life may have formed on Earth as soon as it possibly co= uld have," Professor Lineweaver said. As recently as 1994, Jupiter's immense gravity pulled comet Shoemaker-Lev= y into a death plunge. Had it hit Earth, the comet would have wiped out lif= e. In a separate development, more than 80 leading international scientists have written to the Federal Government asking it to restart Australia's contribution to the Spaceguard program, a United States-led project to sp= ot dangerous asteroids. Professor Lineweaver's research will be published in the journal Astrobiology and has impressed some Australian scientists. Vince Ford from the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory, described the research as "pretty damned exciting". "It's another little step along the way to saying there are more Earth-li= ke planets," he said. "Ten years back, the chances seemed to be pretty slim. Now it's starting to look as though there are planets all over the place.= " Scientists will soon be able to see clearly enough into space to test Professor Lineweaver's calculations. "At the moment, it's like having a b= oat with a radar and the radar just cannot see something over the horizon," h= e said. "In the next few years, this will change. We will start to see Jupiters. We're just on the verge of being able to get these numbers." Copyright =A9 The Age Company Ltd 2002. ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B29C.64F75E60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
EXPERTS FIND M= ORE JUPITERS

From The Age, 7 February 2002

http://w= ww.theage.com.au/news/national/2002/02/07/FFXY41ZZBXC.html

By DAVI= D WROE

The possibility that alien life thrives in our galaxy has b= een boosted by
Sydney physicists who say planets such as Jupiter, whic= h protects the Earth
from rogue asteroids, are more common than previo= usly thought.

Through some mathematical wizardry, the professor of= astrophysics at the
University of New South Wales, Charley Lineweaver= , concluded that there were
50 per cent more Jupiter-like planets amon= g the Milky Way's 300 billion
stars than previously thought.

Th= is means there may be 30 billion star systems capable of supporting life.=

Scientists have found 74 planets outside the solar system by obse= rving stars
"wobbling" - a gravitational effect caused by orbiting pla= nets.

They are all many times the size of Jupiter and are close to= their host
stars, which is a poor condition for a star system to supp= ort life.

Professor Lineweaver said that because of technical limi= tations, we could
not see smaller planets. This had created the false = statistical assumption
that most planets were very hot giants.

= "It's a bit like lining up everybody in the world and only looking at peo= ple
above six foot eight and then you say, 'Wow, people are tall!"' he= said.

With a colleague, Daniel Grether, Professor Lineweaver reji= gged the maths
with what he calls "an unbiased sample".

Jupiter= 's massive gravity acts as a shield, sucking in most rock debris left
= over from the formation of the sun and the solar system before it can
= threaten Earth through a catastrophic asteroid collision such as the one<= BR>that wiped out the dinosaurs.

It is believed life on Earth did = not begin to develop beyond single-cell
organisms until the heaviest c= osmic bombardment of ceased about 3.8 billion
years ago.

"It te= lls us that life may have formed on Earth as soon as it possibly couldhave," Professor Lineweaver said.

As recently as 1994, Jupiter's = immense gravity pulled comet Shoemaker-Levy
into a death plunge. Had i= t hit Earth, the comet would have wiped out life.

In a separate de= velopment, more than 80 leading international scientists
have written = to the Federal Government asking it to restart Australia's
contributio= n to the Spaceguard program, a United States-led project to spot
dange= rous asteroids.

Professor Lineweaver's research will be published = in the journal
Astrobiology and has impressed some Australian scientis= ts.

Vince Ford from the Australian National University's Mount Str= omlo
Observatory, described the research as "pretty damned exciting".<= BR>
"It's another little step along the way to saying there are more E= arth-like
planets," he said. "Ten years back, the chances seemed to be= pretty slim.
Now it's starting to look as though there are planets al= l over the place."

Scientists will soon be able to see clearly eno= ugh into space to test
Professor Lineweaver's calculations. "At the mo= ment, it's like having a boat
with a radar and the radar just cannot s= ee something over the horizon," he
said. "In the next few years, this = will change. We will start to see
Jupiters. We're just on the verge of= being able to get these numbers."

Copyright =A9 The Age Company L= td 2002.

------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B29C.64F75E60-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Feb 11 22:23:56 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1C6JKk28384 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA00713 for bioastro-list; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:12:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe148.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.141]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA06988 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:03:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:02:52 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.197] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Items of Interest Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:02:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B360.E9145260" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2002 06:02:52.0587 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8371FB0:01C1B38A] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B360.E9145260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Karr Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:24 PM To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Items of Interest Items of Interest 1) Alternative" veterinary treatments for Skeptics 2) Skeptics in the Pub 3) Spiked-Online 4) Articles of Note 1) Alternative" veterinary treatments for Skeptics? I just received an e-mail from a television documentary producer who is =20 evidently working on an hour-long program dealing with "the explosion of =20 'alternative' medical therapies offered for pets and other animals." She= =20 is interested in "exploring the range of possible outcomes for these =20 treatments." If any hot-line subscribers have had a veterinarian suggest= =20 or provide an "alternative" therapy for one or more of your animals, I'd =20 appreciate hearing about it. I'd particularly like to know if such =20 unproven and/or disproved therapies were offered or provided in lieu of =20 ones of proven efficacy, and what the pertinent fees were. Please e-mail= =20 me off-list regarding the particulars. Bob Imrie, DVM coordinator, NCAHF Veterinary Task Force 2) Skeptics in the Pub Hi all Don't forget that Skeptics in the Pub is starting up again for 200= 2. Our first meeting is John Wall who is an expert on those who propose= 'Alternative Histories' for the Earth, where 'Alternative' is very alter= native indeed. I look forward to meeting you all and hope to see you ther= e, at the usual place, the Florence Nightingale Pub in central London at = 7:30 pm on Wednesday 20 February 2002. For more info (including how to ge= t there instructions and a nice map) and for upcoming speakers, please ch= eck out the web site www.skeptics.org.uk/pub. Nick Pullar =20 NickP@coleridge.co.uk 3) Spiked-Online Hi Barry, The "Don't Panic Button" column at Spiked-Online is almost always populat= ed with articles which exhibit healthy skepticism about current fears. http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/central/panic/index.htm An individual such panic/don't article is usually too minor to justify ci= ting in your "Articles of Note" lists. But the regularly-updated page is somethi= ng which would probably be of interest to your readers. Regards, David V. DvdS@Austin.RR.com 4) Articles of Note Debunking Seeing Without Sight by Leon Jaroff Time http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,199773,00.html "Ashen-faced and weeping, ten-year-old Natalia Lulova sat dejectedly in a= =20 Manhattan law office last week while her mother stroked her hair, consoli= ng =20 her. Natalia, who with her family emigrated from Russia three years ago a= nd =20 now lives in Brooklyn, had just failed to win a million dollar prize =20 offered by the James Randi Educational Foundation to anyone who can =20 demonstrate paranormal, supernatural or occult power. It was still anothe= r =20 of the seemingly endless setbacks to purveyors of the paranormal." In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory Will Seek a Place Alongside Evolutio= n By FRANCIS X. CLINES , New York Times February 11, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/education/11CREA.html The latest challenge to evolution's primacy in the nation's =20 classrooms - the theory of intelligent design, not the old foe =20 creationism - will get a full- scale hearing next month before Ohio =20 Board of Education members, who are in a heated debate over whether =20 established science censors other views about the origins of life. Back talk BY ROGER DOWNEY Seattle Weekly http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0206/news-downey.shtml "ANGRY E-MAILS from readers are part of a journalist's job. We even welco= me =20 them as a sign that someone's reading what we write and takes it seriousl= y =20 enough to comment. Generally, though, we don't respond. We've had our say= ; =20 the readers theirs: time for both to move on." Castles in the sea by Stephen Moss The Guardian [UK] http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4350493,00.html "Graham Hancock doesn't look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his smal= l, =20 neat house in Kennington, south London. But his critics would say =20 appearances deceive: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Hancoc= k =20 has spent the past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes whi= ch =20 argue that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: =20 civilisation didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC; it began =20 10,000 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a catacly= sm." Hit or myth? The Scotsman http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=3D146872002 "The Mothman Prophecies, a stylish new psychological thriller starring =20 Richard Gere, has all the elements of a particularly sophisticated episod= e =20 of The X-Files - a frightening red-eyed monster, sinister telepaths, =20 disturbing dreams, phantoms, paranoia and creeping madness. Yet the film = is =20 based on real events that occurred over a 13-month period in Point =20 Pleasant, West Virginia, between 1966 and 1967." Lunar plots sold in Central Asia February 10, 2002, By Marina Kozlova (United Press International) http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=3D02022002-035651-4155r ALMATY, Kazakhstan (UPI) -- A consulate of the Lunar Embassy has opened in Almaty and so far five people in the former Soviet republic in Central Asia have purchased $99 plots on the moon. Beyond a Doubt By Blair Anthony Robertson -- Sacramento Bee Staff Writer Saturday, Feb. 9, 2002 http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/1606119p-1682238c.html The truth is out there. Bob Carroll -- professor by trade, skeptic at hea= rt -- is doing his best to find it. =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B360.E9145260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<= DIV>

=
----- Original Message -----

From: Barry Karr

Sent: Monday, F= ebruary 11, 2002 12:24 PM

To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

= Subject: Items of Interest

It= ems of Interest

1) Alternative" veterinary treatments for Sk= eptics
2) Skeptics in the Pub
3) Spiked-Online
4) Articles of No= te

1) Alternative" veterinary treatments for Skeptics?

I ju= st received an e-mail from a television documentary producer who is
e= vidently working on an hour-long program dealing with "the explosion of <= BR>'alternative' medical therapies offered for pets and other animals."&n= bsp; She
is interested in "exploring the range of possible outcomes f= or these
treatments." If any hot-line subscribers have had a ve= terinarian suggest
or provide an "alternative" therapy for one or mor= e of your animals, I'd
appreciate hearing about it. I'd particu= larly like to know if such
unproven and/or disproved therapies were o= ffered or provided in lieu of
ones of proven efficacy, and what the p= ertinent fees were. Please e-mail
me off-list regarding the par= ticulars.

Bob Imrie, DVM
coordinator,
NCAHF Veterinary Task = Force
<http://www.seanet.com/~vettf/>

2) Skeptics in = the Pub

Hi all Don't forget that Skeptics in the Pub is starting u= p again for 2002.   Our first meeting is John Wall who is an ex= pert on those who propose 'Alternative Histories' for the Earth, where 'A= lternative' is very alternative indeed. I look forward to meeting you all= and hope to see you there, at the usual place, the Florence Nightingale = Pub in central London at 7:30= pm on Wednesday 20 February 2002. For more info (including how to get there instructions and a nice m= ap) and for upcoming speakers, please check out the web site www.skeptics= .org.uk/pub.

Nick Pullar
NickP@coleridge.co.uk

3) S= piked-Online

Hi Barry,

The "Don't Panic Button" column = at Spiked-Online is almost always populated with
articles which exhibi= t healthy skepticism about current fears.

   http://www.= spiked-online.com/sections/central/panic/index.htm

An individual s= uch panic/don't article is usually too minor to justify citing in
your= "Articles of Note" lists. But the regularly-updated page is someth= ing
which would probably be of interest to your readers.

Regard= s,
David V.
DvdS@Austin.RR.com

4) Articles of Not= e

Debunking Seeing Without Sight
by Leon Jaroff
Time
http= ://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,199773,00.html
"Ashen-faced and weeping, ten-year-old Natalia Lulova sat dejectedly in= a
Manhattan law office last week while her mother stroked her hair, = consoling
her. Natalia, who with her family emigrated from Russia thr= ee years ago and
now lives in Brooklyn, had just failed to win a mill= ion dollar prize
offered by the James Randi Educational Foundation to= anyone who can
demonstrate paranormal, supernatural or occult power.= It was still another
of the seemingly endless setbacks to purveyors = of the paranormal."

In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory W= ill Seek a Place Alongside Evolution
By FRANCIS X. CLINES , New York T= imes February 11, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/educati= on/11CREA.html

The latest challenge to evolution's primacy in = the nation's
classrooms - the theory of intelligent design, not the o= ld foe
creationism - will get a full- scale hearing next month before= Ohio
Board of Education members, who are in a heated debate over whe= ther
established science censors other views about the origins of lif= e.

Back talk
BY ROGER DOWNEY
Seattle Weekly
http://ww= w.seattleweekly.com/features/0206/news-downey.shtml

"ANGRY E-MAILS= from readers are part of a journalist's job. We even welcome
them as= a sign that someone's reading what we write and takes it seriously
e= nough to comment. Generally, though, we don't respond. We've had our say;=
the readers theirs: time for both to move on."

Castles in= the sea
by Stephen Moss
The Guardian [UK]
http://www.guardian.c= o.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4350493,00.html

"Graham Hancock doesn'= t look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his small,
neat house in K= ennington, south London. But his critics would say
appearances deceiv= e: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Hancock
has spent th= e past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes which
argue= that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong:
civilisa= tion didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC; it began
10,0= 00 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a cataclysm."=

Hit or myth?
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/inde= x.cfm?id=3D146872002

"The Mothman Prophecies, a stylish new psycho= logical thriller starring
Richard Gere, has all the elements of a par= ticularly sophisticated episode
of The X-Files - a frightening red-ey= ed monster, sinister telepaths,
disturbing dreams, phantoms, paranoia= and creeping madness. Yet the film is
based on real events that occu= rred over a 13-month period in Point
Pleasant, West Virginia, between= 1966 and 1967."

Lunar plots sold in Central Asia
February 10, 2002,
By Marin= a Kozlova (United Press International)

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm= ?StoryID=3D02022002-035651-4155r

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (UPI) -- A con= sulate of the Lunar Embassy has opened
in Almaty and so far five peopl= e in the former Soviet republic in
Central Asia have purchased $99 plo= ts on the moon.

Beyond a Doubt
By Bl= air Anthony Robertson -- Sacramento Bee Staff Writer
Saturday, Feb.= 9, 2002
http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/1606119p-16= 82238c.html

The truth is out there. Bob Carroll -- professor by tr= ade, skeptic at heart -- is doing his best to find it. ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B360.E9145260-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 12 16:31:31 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1D0VUk04748 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:31:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id TAA21683 for bioastro-list; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:23:53 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe48.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.128]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21674 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:23:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:23:17 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.51] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Microbial Observatory Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:23:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B3FA.B59DD420" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 00:23:17.0774 (UTC) FILETIME=[A24B22E0:01C1B424] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B3FA.B59DD420 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:53 PM To: CUNEWS-LIFE_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Microbial Observatory Cornell biologists aim to grow 'bugs' responsible for greenhouse gas, methane, in NSF-funded microbial observatory FOR RELEASE: Feb. 8, 2002 Contact: Roger Segelken Office: 607-255-9736 E-mail: hrs2@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- They've been at it for millions of years, but practically nothing is known about wetlands bacteria that turn organic matter into the greenhouse gas, methane. Now a team of Cornell University scientists, aided by a $837,000 Microbial Observatory grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is going after methane-generating bacteria (called methanogens) and other microbes that help digest dying plants in anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions of bogs and other wetlands -- aiming to bring 'em back alive. "Alive is the hard part. We can collect and distinguish the various methanogens by DNA analysis, but no one has ever cultured and grown methanogens from acidic wetlands in a laboratory," says Stephen Zinder, Cornell professor of microbiology. "We need to know more about the conditions where the methanogens work, especially in the highly acidic bogs." If the Cornell researchers succeed in duplicating the carbon-rich, anaerobic, acidic conditions where the methanogens thrive, Zinder says, the hard-working bugs could have a future in bioengineering -- perhaps in bioremediation of contaminated sites or in the controlled production of methane. Among the gases accumulating in the atmosphere, and purportedly contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming, methane is 21 times as potent as carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Increasing amounts of methane come from anthropogenic (or human-based) activity, particularly from burning coal, cultivating rice, raising livestock and producing natural gas, as well as from the decaying contents of garbage landfills. Harder to quantify and predict is "natural" methane production from wetlands, the possible result of plant growth and decomposition responding to temperature, carbon dioxide levels and other fluctuations during global climate change. That's why one of the observatory sites chosen for the Cornell study is McLean Bog, a few miles northeast of Cornell's Ithaca campus, where sphagnum moss and other plant materials have been accumulating for some 13,000 years, ever since a massive chunk of glacier from the last great ice Age melted and left a kettle-like hole in the surrounding gravel. Carnivorous pitcher plants and other exotic growth cover the surface of the bog, but researchers in the Microbial Observatory project are interested in deeper, more mysterious life-forms. Their goal is to extract methanogens, and other bacteria that help them flourish, by breaking down plants and simulating bog conditions, including acidity of pH 3.6, in the laboratory. (A measurement of pH 3.6 would make a bog roughly equivalent to the acidity of green olives.) Other observatory sites are not as acidic, but are just as intriguing, according to the other co-principal investigator in the studies, Cornell associate professor of natural resources Joseph Yavitt, who has studied methane-producing wetlands in the northern United States since 1992. "We will look at a different type of peat land called a forested mire -- as in quagmire -- in Tully, N.Y.," Yavitt says. "The Tully site is a remnant of the forested mires that probably existed throughout the Lake Ontario plain before settlers drained the land. If you look at the mucklands used to raise onions and other crops south of Lake Ontario, you are seeing the same kind of soil that began forming 13,000 years ago but without the trees of a forested mire." Typical mires have lower rates of methane production and only one methanogen in common with bogs like the McLean Bog, Yavitt has learned. Also targeted as a part of the Microbial Observatory project is Michigan Hollow in Danby, N.Y., where Cornell researchers report a very high rate of decomposition of plant materials, and the result is an oily, black substance that is a precursor to coal. Student participants in the study will visit comparable peat sites in Canada and Europe and will offer their findings on public web sites about methanogens. As for the increasing amount of methane entering the atmosphere, Zinder says: "If we can understand how microbial populations in peat lands function, we may be able to predict how methane production will respond to changing environmental conditions, and that will greatly improve our ability to forecast trends in atmospheric methane concentration." Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability. o Cornell Dept. of Natural Resources: o Cornell Dept. of Microbiology: o Methane info from EPA: o Wetlands info from NGS: -30- The web version of this release, with accompanying photos, may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/microbial_observatory.hrs.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B3FA.B59DD420 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: cunews@cornell.edu

Sent: T= uesday, February 12, 2002 4:53 PM

<= B>To: CUNEWS-LIFE_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu=

Subject: Cornell News: Micr= obial Observatory

Cornell biologists aim to grow '= bugs' responsible for greenhouse gas,
methane, in NSF-funded microbial= observatory

FOR RELEASE: Feb. 8, 2002

Contact: = Roger Segelken
Office: 607-255-9736
E-mail: hrs2@corne= ll.edu

ITHACA, N.Y. -- They've been at it for millions of year= s, but
practically nothing is known about wetlands bacteria that turn<= BR>organic matter into the greenhouse gas, methane.

Now a team of = Cornell University scientists, aided by a $837,000
Microbial Observato= ry grant from the National Science Foundation
(NSF), is going after me= thane-generating bacteria (called
methanogens) and other microbes that= help digest dying plants in
anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions of = bogs and other wetlands --
aiming to bring 'em back alive.

"Ali= ve is the hard part. We can collect and distinguish the various
= methanogens by DNA analysis, but no one has ever cultured and grown
me= thanogens from acidic wetlands in a laboratory," says Stephen
Zinder, = Cornell professor of microbiology. "We need to know more
about t= he conditions where the methanogens work, especially in the
highly aci= dic bogs."

If the Cornell researchers succeed in duplicating the c= arbon-rich,
anaerobic, acidic conditions where the methanogens thrive,= Zinder
says, the hard-working bugs could have a future in bioengineer= ing --
perhaps in bioremediation of contaminated sites or in the contr= olled
production of methane.

Among the gases accumulating in th= e atmosphere, and purportedly
contributing to the greenhouse effect an= d global warming, methane is
21 times as potent as carbon dioxide, acc= ording to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Increasing a= mounts of methane come
from anthropogenic (or human-based) activity, p= articularly from
burning coal, cultivating rice, raising livestock and= producing
natural gas, as well as from the decaying contents of garba= ge
landfills. Harder to quantify and predict is "natural" methan= e
production from wetlands, the possible result of plant growth anddecomposition responding to temperature, carbon dioxide levels and
ot= her fluctuations during global climate change. That's why one of
the o= bservatory sites chosen for the Cornell study is McLean Bog, a
few mil= es northeast of Cornell's Ithaca campus, where sphagnum moss
and other= plant materials have been accumulating for some 13,000
years, ever si= nce a massive chunk of glacier from the last great ice
Age melted and = left a kettle-like hole in the surrounding gravel.
Carnivorous pitcher= plants and other exotic growth cover the surface
of the bog, but rese= archers in the Microbial Observatory project are
interested in deeper,= more mysterious life-forms. Their goal is to
extract methanogen= s, and other bacteria that help them flourish, by
breaking down plants= and simulating bog conditions, including acidity
of pH 3.6, in the la= boratory. (A measurement of pH 3.6 would make a
bog roughly equi= valent to the acidity of green olives.)

Other observatory sites ar= e not as acidic, but are just as
intriguing, according to the other co= -principal investigator in the
studies, Cornell associate professor of= natural resources Joseph
Yavitt, who has studied methane-producing we= tlands in the northern
United States since 1992. "We will look a= t a different type of peat
land called a forested mire -- as in quagmi= re -- in Tully, N.Y.,"
Yavitt says. "The Tully site is a remnant= of the forested mires that
probably existed throughout the Lake Ontar= io plain before settlers
drained the land. If you look at the mu= cklands used to raise onions
and other crops south of Lake Ontario, yo= u are seeing the same kind
of soil that began forming 13,000 years ago= but without the trees of
a forested mire." Typical mires have l= ower rates of methane
production and only one methanogen in common wit= h bogs like the
McLean Bog, Yavitt has learned.

Also targeted a= s a part of the Microbial Observatory project is
Michigan Hollow in Da= nby, N.Y., where Cornell researchers report a
very high rate of decomp= osition of plant materials, and the result
is an oily, black sub= stance that is a precursor to coal. Student
participants in the = study will visit comparable peat sites in Canada
and Europe and will o= ffer their findings on public web sites about
methanogens.

As f= or the increasing amount of methane entering the atmosphere,
Zinder sa= ys: "If we can understand how microbial populations in peat
lands func= tion, we may be able to predict how methane production will
respond to= changing environmental conditions, and that will greatly
improve our = ability to forecast trends in atmospheric methane
concentration."
<= BR>Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additi= onal
information on this news release. Some might not be part of= the
Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over the= ir
content or availability.

o Cornell Dept. of Natural Resource= s: <http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/>

o Cornell Dept. of Microbio= logy: <http://www.micro.cornell.edu/microHome.html>

o Methan= e info from EPA: <http://www.epa.gov/ghginfo/topics/topic2.htm#natural= >

o Wetlands info from NGS:
<http://magma.nationalgeograp= hic.com/ngm/data/2002/02/01/Extra_1/resource_earthpulse.html>

-= 30-

The web version of this release, with accompanying pho= tos, may be
found at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/mic= robial_observatory.hrs.html

Cornell University News Service
Sur= ge 3
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4206
cunews@= cornell.edu
http://www.news.cornell.edu

------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B3FA.B59DD420-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 12 16:31:39 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1D0Vck16843 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id TAA21834 for bioastro-list; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:27:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe69.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.211]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21824 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:27:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:26:29 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.51] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: CASSINI MISSION STATUS - February 11, 2002 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:26:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0008_01C1B3FB.2863B1F0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 00:26:29.0520 (UTC) FILETIME=[14954100:01C1B425] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C1B3FB.2863B1F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cassini@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:27 PM To: Cassini Spacecraft Updates Subject: CASSINI MISSION STATUS - February 11, 2002 MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov CASSINI MISSION STATUS February 11, 2002 NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to fly in good health with less than 29 months to go before it becomes the first Earth envoy to enter orbit around Saturn. Last month, Cassini completed a 40-day period of data collection as part of a multi-year search for gravitational waves. The data comes from radio transmissions between Cassini and stations of NASA's Deep Space Network in California, Spain and Australia. The experiment used frequencies both in the X-band, which is the band commonly used by interplanetary spacecraft, and in the higher-frequency Ka-band, a new band for the Deep Space Network. Data was successfully collected for 90 percent of the possible transmission time in the Ka-band, a promising beginning for future uses of that band by Cassini and other spacecraft. In the traditional X-band, data was received for 98 percent of the possible time over the 40-day experiment. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time that are set off by acceleration of massive bodies, such as black holes or supernovas. Their existence has been confirmed indirectly, but never detected experimentally. This search assesses the Doppler effect on radio waves traveling between Cassini and Earth. The Doppler effect is how the frequency of a transmission is affected by the relative speed between the sender and receiver, such as the raised pitch of an approaching train's whistle. Scientists are looking for barely perceptible fluctuations that would be caused in Cassini's speed relative to Earth if gravitational waves of certain wavelengths were traveling through the solar system. They expect analysis of the data to take months. Cassini will be used for two more periods of gravitational wave investigation before it reaches Saturn. Engineers are making progress at correcting a problem of haze on the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera. Warming the camera for a week to a temperature just above freezing has significantly reduced the problem, so that treatment will be repeated for a longer period beginning March 5. "We're fully confident it is going to get better," said Robert Mitchell, Cassini-Huygens program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The usual operating temperature for the camera is minus 90 Celsius (minus 130 Fahrenheit). Haze on its optics appeared when it was cooled to that temperature after a routine-maintenance heating of the instrument to 30 C (86 F). That occurred following flawless imaging of Jupiter for several months of 2000 and 2001. Heating the camera again, but to only 4 C (39 F), is removing the haze. Test images taken of a star in late January showed the improvement. Cassini will reach Saturn on July 1, 2004, and release its piggybacked Huygens probe about six months later for descent through the thick atmosphere of the moon Titan on Jan. 14, 2005. Cassini-Huygens is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about Cassini-Huygens is available online at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . # # # # # 02/11/02 GW #02-034 Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. 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To: Cassini Spacecraft Updates

Subject: CASSINI MISSION STATUS - February 11, 2002
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTR= ATION
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http:/= /www.jpl.nasa.gov

        =          CASSINI MISSION STATUS            = ;        February 11, 2002

&nbs= p;    NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to fly in good h= ealth
with less than 29 months to go before it becomes the first Earth=
envoy to enter orbit around Saturn.

     L= ast month, Cassini completed a 40-day period of data
collection as par= t of a multi-year search for gravitational
waves. The data comes from = radio transmissions between Cassini
and stations of NASA's Deep Space = Network in California, Spain
and Australia.

   &= nbsp; The experiment used frequencies both in the X-band, which is
the= band commonly used by interplanetary spacecraft, and in the
higher-fr= equency Ka-band, a new band for the Deep Space Network.
Data was succe= ssfully collected for 90 percent of the possible
transmission time in = the Ka-band, a promising beginning for
future uses of that band by Cas= sini and other spacecraft. In the
traditional X-band, data was receive= d for 98 percent of the
possible time over the 40-day experiment.
<= BR>     Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric= of space and
time that are set off by acceleration of massive bodies,= such as
black holes or supernovas. Their existence has been confirmed=
indirectly, but never detected experimentally. This search
assesse= s the Doppler effect on radio waves traveling between
Cassini and Eart= h. The Doppler effect is how the frequency of a
transmission is affect= ed by the relative speed between the sender
and receiver, such as the = raised pitch of an approaching train's
whistle.

  &nb= sp; Scientists are looking for barely perceptible fluctuations
t= hat would be caused in Cassini's speed relative to Earth if
gravitatio= nal waves of certain wavelengths were traveling through
the solar syst= em. They expect analysis of the data to take
months. Cassi= ni will be used for two more periods of
gravitational wave investigati= on before it reaches Saturn.

     Engineers ar= e making progress at correcting a problem of
haze on the spacecraft's = narrow-angle camera. Warming the camera
for a week to a temperature ju= st above freezing has significantly
reduced the problem, so that treat= ment will be repeated for a
longer period beginning March 5.

&n= bsp;    "We're fully confident it is going to get better,"= said
Robert Mitchell, Cassini-Huygens program manager at NASA's JetPropulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

    = The usual operating temperature for the camera is minus 90
Celsius (m= inus 130 Fahrenheit). Haze on its optics appeared when
it was cooled t= o that temperature after a routine-maintenance
heating of the instrume= nt to 30 C (86 F). That occurred following
flawless imaging of Jupiter= for several months of 2000 and 2001.
Heating the camera again, but to= only 4 C (39 F), is removing the
haze. Test images taken of a star in= late January showed the
improvement.

     = Cassini will reach Saturn on July 1, 2004, and release its
piggybacked= Huygens probe about six months later for descent
through the thick at= mosphere of the moon Titan on Jan. 14, 2005.
Cassini-Huygens is a coop= erative mission of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Spa= ce Agency. JPL, a division of
the California Institute of Techno= logy in Pasadena, manages the
mission for NASA's Office of Space Scien= ce, Washington, D.C.
Additional information about Cassini-Huygens is a= vailable online
at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .

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Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the= European Space
Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsio= n Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in = Pasadena,
Calif.,
manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Office of = Space Science,
Washington, D.C.

Cassini Outreach
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Insti= tute of Technology
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------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C1B3FB.2863B1F0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 12 16:33:29 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1D0XSk01763 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id TAA21891 for bioastro-list; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:28:07 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe130.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.123]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21882 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:28:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:27:33 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.24.65.51] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Space-Weather-Advisory Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:27:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B3FB.504336F0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 00:27:33.0600 (UTC) FILETIME=[3AC71600:01C1B425] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B3FB.504336F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: daemon@sec.noaa.gov Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:27 PM To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov Subject: Space-Weather-Advisory Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK #02- 7 2002 February 12 at 02:23 p.m. MST (2002 February 12 2123 UT) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For February 4-10 Space weather reached minor levels. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts occurred on February 4, 6, and 10 due to moderate-sized solar flares. Geomagnetic field activity increased during February 5 - 7, but did not reach storm levels. There were no solar radiation storms during the period. For a list of adverse system effects related to space weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales. Outlook For February 13-19 Space weather is expected to remain at minor levels with isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts possible through the period. No geomagnetic storms or solar radiation storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SEC's Web site http://sec.noaa.gov or (303) 497-5127. The NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at bmcgehan@boulder.noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288. ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C1B3FB.504336F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Subject: Space-Weather-Advisory

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Ce= nter
Boulder, Colorado, USA

SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK #02- 7
200= 2 February 12 at 02:23 p.m. MST (2002 February 12 2123 UT)

**** SP= ACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For February 4-10
Space weathe= r reached minor levels. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio
blackouts o= ccurred on February 4, 6, and 10 due to moderate-sized solar
flares. G= eomagnetic field activity increased during February 5 - 7, but
did not= reach storm levels. There were no solar radiation storms during
the p= eriod. For a list of adverse system effects related to space
weather s= torms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales.

Outlook For = February 13-19
Space weather is expected to remain at minor levels wit= h isolated
category R1 (minor) radio blackouts possible through the pe= riod. No
geomagnetic storms or solar radiation storms are expected.
Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA,=
USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Servicesand other observatories, universities, and institutions. More
inform= ation is available at SEC's Web site http://sec.noaa.gov or
(303) 497-= 5127. The NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan
at bmcg= ehan@boulder.noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288.

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To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: AstroAlert: A.L.P.O. Alert Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:20:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B488.D8A66520" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 17:20:48.0294 (UTC) FILETIME=[C73D3460:01C1B4B2] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B488.D8A66520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: CPAJohnM@aol.com Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:13 PM To: planetary@SkyandTelescope.com Subject: AstroAlert: A.L.P.O. Alert =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Planetary Activity =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D A.L.P.O. Jupiter Alert 2002 January 26 / 2002 February 08 A consensus seems to be forming, within the amateur and professional astronomy communities, that south temperate oval BA should be expected to survive its conjunction with the GRS. Although BA may be affected in sev= eral ways, it will probably, according to Dr. Reta Beebe, be slowed somewhat t= hen quickly be propelled past the GRS. The visual appearance of BA being split or piled up on another oval was simply other cloud material circulating around BA, and being compressed between BA and the GRS currents. Even though BA may not be disrupted, observers must remain alert. Jupite= r has surprised us in past apparitions. It is important to obtain visual observations documented with disk sketch= es or strip sketches depicting the GRS and BA interaction, CCD images, or visual central meridian transit timings. These kinds of observations sho= uld continue well after BA has passed the GRS. The professional community is especially interested in any CCD images obtained in methane. CCD images and scanned sketches may be sent to John W. McAnally at cpajohnm@aol.com. Or mailed USPO to 2124 Wooded Acres, Waco, Texas, USA 76710. We can also provide A.L.P.O. observing forms. /////////////////////////////////////////// John W. McAnally The A.L.P.O. Jupiter Section Assistant Coordinator Transit Timings =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D AstroAlert is a free service of SKY & TELESCOPE, the Essential Magazine of Astronomy (http://SkyandTelescope.com/). This e-mail was sent to AstroAlert subscribers. If you feel you received it in error, or to unsubscribe from AstroAlert, please send a plain- text e-mail to majordomo@SkyandTelescope.com with the following line -- and nothing else -- in the body of the message: unsubscribe planetary e-mail@address.com replacing "e-mail@address.com" with your actual e-mail address. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C1B488.D8A66520 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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A.L.P.O. Jupiter Alert
2002 January 26 / 2002 F= ebruary 08

A consensus seems to be forming, within the amateur and= professional
astronomy communities, that south temperate oval BA shou= ld be expected to
survive its conjunction with the GRS. Although= BA may be affected in several
ways, it will probably, according to Dr= . Reta Beebe, be slowed somewhat then
quickly be propelled past the GR= S.

The visual appearance of BA being split or piled up on another = oval was
simply other cloud material circulating around BA, and being = compressed
between BA and the GRS currents.

Even though BA may = not be disrupted, observers must remain alert. Jupiter
has surpr= ised us in past apparitions.

It is important to obtain visual obse= rvations documented with disk sketches
or strip sketches depicting the= GRS and BA interaction, CCD images, or
visual central meridian = transit timings. These kinds of observations should
continue wel= l after BA has passed the GRS.

The professional community is espec= ially interested in any CCD images
obtained in methane.

CCD ima= ges and scanned sketches may be sent to John W. McAnally at
cpajohnm@a= ol.com. Or mailed USPO to 2124 Wooded Acres, Waco, Texas, USA
76710.&n= bsp; We can also provide A.L.P.O. observing forms.

///////////////= ////////////////////////////
John W. McAnally
The A.L.P.O. Jupiter = Section
Assistant Coordinator
Transit Timings
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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1B494.8C327100-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Feb 13 11:13:40 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1DJDdk14959 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA13621 for bioastro-list; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:08:02 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe115.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.108]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13607 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:07:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:07:27 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.199.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Thermophiles on Early Earth and SN 2 MYA Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:04:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0007_01C1B497.542AB170" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 19:07:27.0161 (UTC) FILETIME=[AD42D290:01C1B4C1] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C1B497.542AB170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WHEN LIFE WAS HELL >From DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 3 (March 2002) http://www.discover.com/mar_02/breakhell.html by Josie Glausiusz The infant Earth was a harsh place for life to begin. The oceans were covered with ice, the climate was as forbidding as modern Antarctica. And every few tens of millions of years, giant asteroids barreled into the planet, boiling away the oceans and veiling the globe with clouds of vaporized rock. Each impact would have sterilized the surface, yet eviden= ce shows life survived the bombardment. Geophysicist Norman Sleep of Stanfor= d University theorizes that early organisms endured in an unusual sanctuary-deep underground or out in space-and repopulated the surface wh= en conditions improved. Studies of lunar craters indicate Earth was struck by 15 to 20 huge asteroids, each about 150 miles wide, between 4.5 billion and 3.8 billion years ago, when the first solid evidence of life appears. But Sleep's research reveals that chemical conditions below Earth's surface were suitable for heat-loving microbes that derive energy from hydrogen and methane. Called thermophiles, they still thrive in hot springs and ocean vents. During the heavy bombardment, thermophiles could have holed up a h= alf mile underground, where temperatures hover around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Hardy microbes might also have been able to survive being blasted into sp= ace and returning millennia later. Thermophiles are primitive organisms that lie at the roots of two of the three major branches of life, Bacteria and Archaea. That primacy suggests= to Sleep that these hardy hangers-on gave rise to all the other living thing= s that later overtook Earth. The diverse set of genes they carry implies th= at the thermophiles have evolved considerably from simpler life-forms that c= ame before them. Sleep thinks life probably began almost as soon as Earth formed, enduring repeated crises while brutal conditions kept weeding out the weaklings. "The last common ancestor of present life is an incredibly complicated organism already; it looks like a survivor," he says. =A9 Copyright 2002 The Walt Disney Company. Back to Homepage. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D EXPLODING STAR STRAFED EARTH >From Nature Science Update, 12 February 2002 http://www.nature.com/nsu/020211/020211-2.html A supernova may have caused mass extinction two million years ago. 12 February 2002 PHILIP BALL The explosion of a dying star could have ended much of marine life on Ear= th two million years ago. The supernova could have strafed the Earth's atmosphere with cosmic rays, severely damaging the ozone layer and exposi= ng living organisms to high levels of the Sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays, = US researchers propose1. This idea dates back to the 1950s, but now Narciso Ben=EDtez of Johns Hop= kins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues have come up with the first plausible evidence. Their proposal remains tentative, but is consistent with what is known about the likelihood of nearby stellar explosions and the telltale signatures of these events on our planet. Supernovae are the death throes of large stars. When such stars run out o= f fuel for nuclear fission, they collapse under their own gravity, heat up rapidly and explode, releasing huge amounts of matter and energy. Fortunately for us, such outbursts are rare: the most recent one in our o= wn galaxy was spotted in 1604, and was too far away to pose any risk. Severa= l supernovae have been observed more recently in other galaxies. One-fifth of all supernovae occur in large groups of relatively young sta= rs that are thought to have coalesced from the same gas cloud. One such clus= ter in our own galaxy is the Scorpius-Centaurus association, which comprises three subgroups of stars. Two million years ago many marine creatures died off suddenly all over th= e planet. No one knows why. Each subgroup would have generated supernovae at different times: about 1= 0, 7 and 2 million years ago, say Ben=EDtez' group. The most recent episode = could have included a supernova as little as 130 light years from Earth. This i= s not close enough to fry our planet. But it would have left a mark that th= e researchers think has already been found. Three years ago, scientists in Germany reported high concentrations of iron-60 in two layers of ocean rock, dated at about 0-3 and 4-6 million years old2. Iron-60 is a rare form produced on Earth by nuclear reactions involving cosmic rays, such as those that supernovae generate. Putting these arguments together, Ben=EDtez' team proposes that the most recently formed iron-60 layer could be the result of a nearby supernova i= n the Scorpius-Centaurus association around two million years ago. The supernova could have left another signature - in the fossil record. Two million years ago, many marine creatures, such as bivalve molluscs, d= ied out suddenly all over the planet. As mass extinctions go, this was a mild one. But no one knows what caused it. Ben=EDtez and his colleagues think that a nearby supernova at this time c= ould have showered the Earth with cosmic rays. These charged subatomic particl= es collide with atoms in the air, initiating chemical reactions. Copious cos= mic rays are thought to produce nitrogen monoxide, which can destroy ozone molecules. The researchers calculate that a supernova 130 light years away could hav= e thinned the ozone layer by up to 60 per cent, exposing marine organisms t= o ultraviolet rays from the Sun. This could have killed off plankton, and thence the molluscs that live off them. To support this hypothesis, astronomers now need to find the smoking gun: remnants of ancient supernovae in nearby star clusters. References Ben=EDtez, N., Ma=EDz-Apell=E1niz, J. & Canelles, M. Evidence for nearby = supernova explosions. Physical Review Letters, 83, 081101, (2002). Knie, K. et al., Indication for supernova produced 60Fe activity on Earth= . Physical Review Letters, 83, 18 - 21, (1999). =A9 Nature News Service / Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2002 ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C1B497.542AB170 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
WHEN LIFE WAS = HELL

From DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 3 (March 2002)

http:= //www.discover.com/mar_02/breakhell.html

by Josie Glausiusz
The infant Earth was a harsh place for life to begin. The oceans werecovered with ice, the climate was as forbidding as modern Antarctica. An= d
every few tens of millions of years, giant asteroids barreled into t= he
planet, boiling away the oceans and veiling the globe with clouds o= f
vaporized rock. Each impact would have sterilized the surface, yet e= vidence
shows life survived the bombardment. Geophysicist Norman Sleep= of Stanford
University theorizes that early organisms endured in an u= nusual
sanctuary-deep underground or out in space-and repopulated the = surface when
conditions improved.

Studies of lunar craters indi= cate Earth was struck by 15 to 20 huge
asteroids, each about 150 miles= wide, between 4.5 billion and 3.8 billion
years ago, when the first s= olid evidence of life appears. But Sleep's
research reveals that chemi= cal conditions below Earth's surface were
suitable for heat-loving mic= robes that derive energy from hydrogen and
methane. Called thermophile= s, they still thrive in hot springs and ocean
vents. During the heavy = bombardment, thermophiles could have holed up a half
mile underground,= where temperatures hover around 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Hardy microbe= s might also have been able to survive being blasted into space
and re= turning millennia later.

Thermophiles are primitive organisms that= lie at the roots of two of the
three major branches of life, Bacteria= and Archaea. That primacy suggests to
Sleep that these hardy hangers-= on gave rise to all the other living things
that later overtook Earth.= The diverse set of genes they carry implies that
the thermophiles hav= e evolved considerably from simpler life-forms that came
before them. = Sleep thinks life probably began almost as soon as Earth
formed, endur= ing repeated crises while brutal conditions kept weeding out
the weakl= ings. "The last common ancestor of present life is an incredibly
compl= icated organism already; it looks like a survivor," he says.

=A9 C= opyright 2002 The Walt Disney Company. Back to Homepage.

<= BR>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
EXPLODING STAR STRAFED E= ARTH

From Nature Science Update, 12 February 2002

h= ttp://www.nature.com/nsu/020211/020211-2.html

A supernova may have= caused mass extinction two million years ago.

12 February 2002PHILIP BALL

The explosion of a dying star could have ended much o= f marine life on Earth
two million years ago. The supernova could have= strafed the Earth's
atmosphere with cosmic rays, severely damaging th= e ozone layer and exposing
living organisms to high levels of the Sun'= s hazardous ultraviolet rays, US
researchers propose1.

This ide= a dates back to the 1950s, but now Narciso Ben=EDtez of Johns Hopkins
= University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues have come up with thefirst plausible evidence. Their proposal remains tentative, but is
c= onsistent with what is known about the likelihood of nearby stellar
ex= plosions and the telltale signatures of these events on our planet.
Supernovae are the death throes of large stars. When such stars run out= of
fuel for nuclear fission, they collapse under their own gravity, h= eat up
rapidly and explode, releasing huge amounts of matter and energ= y.
Fortunately for us, such outbursts are rare: the most recent one in= our own
galaxy was spotted in 1604, and was too far away to pose any = risk. Several
supernovae have been observed more recently in other gal= axies.

One-fifth of all supernovae occur in large groups of relati= vely young stars
that are thought to have coalesced from the same gas = cloud. One such cluster
in our own galaxy is the Scorpius-Centaurus as= sociation, which comprises
three subgroups of stars.

Two millio= n years ago many marine creatures died off suddenly all over the
plane= t. No one knows why.

Each subgroup would have generated supernovae= at different times: about 10,
7 and 2 million years ago, say Ben=EDte= z' group. The most recent episode could
have included a supernova as l= ittle as 130 light years from Earth. This is
not close enough to fry o= ur planet. But it would have left a mark that the
researchers think ha= s already been found.

Three years ago, scientists in Germany repor= ted high concentrations of
iron-60 in two layers of ocean rock, dated = at about 0-3 and 4-6 million
years old2. Iron-60 is a rare form produc= ed on Earth by nuclear reactions
involving cosmic rays, such as those = that supernovae generate.

Putting these arguments together, Ben=ED= tez' team proposes that the most
recently formed iron-60 layer could b= e the result of a nearby supernova in
the Scorpius-Centaurus associati= on around two million years ago. The
supernova could have left another= signature - in the fossil record.

Two million years ago, many mar= ine creatures, such as bivalve molluscs, died
out suddenly all over th= e planet. As mass extinctions go, this was a mild
one. But no one know= s what caused it.

Ben=EDtez and his colleagues think that a nearby= supernova at this time could
have showered the Earth with cosmic rays= . These charged subatomic particles
collide with atoms in the air, ini= tiating chemical reactions. Copious cosmic
rays are thought to produce= nitrogen monoxide, which can destroy ozone
molecules.

The rese= archers calculate that a supernova 130 light years away could have
thi= nned the ozone layer by up to 60 per cent, exposing marine organisms toultraviolet rays from the Sun. This could have killed off plankton, and=
thence the molluscs that live off them.

To support this hypoth= esis, astronomers now need to find the smoking gun:
remnants of ancien= t supernovae in nearby star clusters.

References

Be= n=EDtez, N., Ma=EDz-Apell=E1niz, J. & Canelles, M. Evidence for nearb= y supernova
explosions. Physical Review Letters, 83, 081101, (2002).

Knie, K. et al., Indication for supernova produced 60Fe act= ivity on Earth.
Physical Review Letters, 83, 18 - 21, (1999).

=A9= Nature News Service / Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2002

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Ric Campo, who used to work with us on the Pioneer missions and Lunar Prospector mission and now with Lockheed/Martin on Gravity B, passed me this link on the space.com site. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dust_view_020212-1.html What caught his eye was that "Pioneer gets credit for something". Just for the record, Pioneer 10 will have been heading out into space for 30 years as of March 2, 2002. - LRK - =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 12 February 2002 If alien astronomers from a nearby star system pointed their version of the Hubble Space Telescope at Earth, astronomer Markus Landgraf believes they would not see our planet but they would find hints of our presence. With their infrared camera, the smart aliens would detect a vast donut-shaped ring of dust with a classic hole in the middle, all surrounding a yellow star. A little math, Landgraf says, and they could deduce the presence of a large planet, like Jupiter, that had cleared out the hole. They would also spot Neptune's signature scrawled in the dust. If this culture's astronomical knowledge were as advanced as ours, they would then wonder if a planet like their own, a habitable world, also orbited the yellow star. Landgraf, an earthbound astronomer working in Darmstadt, Germany, as a mission analyst for the European Space Agency, studies data collected by a pair of space probes that left Earth three decades ago. His research, along with that of some colleagues, is making a mirror out of our solar system, one that reflects on other stars and the planets they might harbor. Faster than a bullet Our solar system's donut is made up of dust grains of many sizes. In order to see signs of planets in the dust, the alien astronomers would need to tune their instruments to spot the smallest dust. Landgraf studies this, too, bits that are just one-hundredth of a millimeter, or dozens of times tinier than a typical grain of sand. It is everywhere in our solar system, zipping around ten times faster than a rifle bullet. Near Earth's orbit around the Sun, there is about one spec of this small dust in each cubic kilometer of space, Landgraf says. If there were no planets circling the Sun, the dust inside Jupiter's orbit would be at least twice as dense, he said. The densest portion of the dust donut is beyond Saturn's orbit, at about fifteen times the Sun-Earth distance. Here, larger dust grains rule. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft found this far-out, high concentration of dust in the 1970s and early '80s. Previously, astronomers had expected dust to thin out with distance from the Sun, because they knew that solar radiation created drag on the dust particles, causing them to spiral inward to the Sun. Dust factories Ever since the Pioneer findings, astronomers have wondered where all the dust comes from. Since theory held that such dust would eventually be shipped to the Sun, there must be some mighty dust factories out in the suburbs of the solar system, replenishing the supply. Landgraf and his colleagues have estimated that 50 tons of dust are produced every second. As with many things in the universe, violent collisions are behind it all= . Using the old Pioneer data, Landgraf and his colleagues demonstrated through computer modeling that comet-like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune are the sources of the dust. "They tend to collide with each other," Landgraf explains. "Much like a brick you let fall from your roof that hits the ground in your driveway, they explode into millions of pieces." The solution might seem obvious. But the distant comets, often called Kuiper Belt Objects, were not known until the early 1990s. Only in the past five years or so has anyone tried to link them to the dust, Landgraf said. The research revealed another dust-generation method at work, too. Alien dust -- typically even smaller particles -- wafts through the galaxy, and our solar system continually plows through it, Landgraf said. Like sandpaper, this interstellar dust rubs on comets and makes more dust. Trapped snip See the web site for the rest of the story - I got you to Pioneer 10 and 11 and that is what caught my eye also but there is more, so check out the whole story. A few more snips about Pioneer 10 for those new to the list - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------------------- http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ever made by man, Pioneer 10 is now over 7.3 billion miles away (Until 17 February 1998, the heliocentric radial distance of Pioneer 10 had been greater than that of any other manmade object. But late on that date Voyager 1's heliocentric radial distance, in the approximate apex direction, equaled that of Pioneer 10 at 69.419 AU. Thereafter, Voyager 1's distance will exceed that of Pioneer 10 at the approximate rate of 1.016 AU per year). The spacecraft made valuable scientific investigations in the outer regions of our solar system until the end of its mission on 31 March 1997. The Pioneer 10 weak signal continues to be tracked by the DSN as part of a new advanced concept study of chaos theory. Pioneer 10 is headed towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull). It will take Pioneer over 2 million years to pass by one of the stars in the constellation. snip http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html Pioneer 10 distance from Sun : 79.66 AU Speed relative to the Sun: 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph) Distance from Earth: 11.84 billion kilometers (7.36 billion miles) Round-trip Light Time: 21 hours 56 minutes Pioneer 10 had another successful track on 7/9/01 - exactly one year after the last pointing maneuver. The original results back on 7/9/00 - weak signal - seemed to indicate that the maneuver may have failed. The signal strengths from the latest tracks, however, indicate that last year's weak signal was probably due to the onboard one-way oscillator. Therefore, we conclude that the maneuver did work, and another pointing maneuver will not be necessary until first quarter 2002. Larry Lasher, Pioneer Project Manager snip -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------------------- And for bragging rights - the image of the Pioneer data is from the Pioneer 10 Telemetry system re-written to run on a Mac Quadra 950 by yours truly back in 1995. The red switches indicates that there were some items out of limit. Cold, is Cold, is Cold when you have shut most everything off except Dr. Van Allen's Geiger Tube Telescope. The application software that was used to write the program was National Instrument's LabVIEW version 3.0, which is now in version 6.1. My how time does fly when you are having fun. 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----- Original Message -----

From: Larry Kellogg

Sent: Wednes= day, February 13, 2002 4:39 PM

T= o: lunar-update@lists.arc.nasa.gov

Cc: Larry Kellogg

Sub= ject: Our Solar System as seen by Alien Astronomers

=
Good midweek day to you all.

Ric Campo, who used to work wit= h us on the Pioneer missions and Lunar
Prospector mission and now with= Lockheed/Martin on Gravity B, passed
me this link on the space.com si= te.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dust_view_020212-1= .html

What caught his eye was that "Pioneer gets credit for = something".

Just for the record, Pioneer 10 will have been heading= out into space
for 30 years as of March 2, 2002. - LRK -
=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted= : 07:00 am ET
12 February 2002

If alien astronomers from a near= by star system pointed their version
of the Hubble Space Telescope
= at Earth, astronomer Markus Landgraf believes they would not see our
p= lanet but they would find
hints of our presence.

With their inf= rared camera, the smart aliens would detect a vast
donut-shaped ring o= f dust with a
classic hole in the middle, all surrounding a yellow sta= r. A little
math, Landgraf says, and they
could deduce the presence= of a large planet, like Jupiter, that had
cleared out the hole. They = would
also spot Neptune's signature scrawled in the dust.

If th= is culture's astronomical knowledge were as advanced as ours,
they wou= ld then wonder if a         =             &= nbsp;    planet like
their own, a habitable world, also= orbited the yellow star.

Landgraf, an earthbound astronomer worki= ng in Darmstadt, Germany, as
a mission analyst for the  &nbs= p;            = ;           European Sp= ace
Agency, studies data collected by a pair of space probes that left=
Earth three decades
ago. His research, along with that of some col= leagues, is making a
mirror out of our solar system, one that reflects= on other stars and
the planets they might harbor.

Faster than = a bullet

Our solar system's donut is made up of dust grains of man= y sizes. In
order to see signs of planets in the dust, the alien astro= nomers
would need to tune their instruments to spot the smallest dust.=
Landgraf studies this, too, bits that are just one-hundredth of a
= millimeter, or dozens of times tinier than a typical grain of sand.
It= is everywhere in our solar system, zipping around ten times faster
th= an a rifle bullet.

Near Earth's orbit around the Sun, there is abo= ut one spec of this
small dust in each cubic kilometer of space, Landg= raf says. If there
were no planets circling the Sun, the dust inside J= upiter's orbit
would be at least twice as dense, he said.

The d= ensest portion of the dust donut is beyond Saturn's orbit, at
about fi= fteen times the Sun-Earth        =             &= nbsp;     distance.
Here, larger dust grains rule.=

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft found this far-out, high
conc= entration of dust in the 1970s and early '80s. Previously,
astronomers= had expected dust to thin out with distance from the Sun,
because the= y knew that solar radiation created drag on the dust
particles, causin= g them to spiral inward to the Sun.

Dust factories

Ever sin= ce the Pioneer findings, astronomers have wondered where all
the dust = comes from. Since theory held that such dust would
eventually be shipp= ed to the Sun, there must be some mighty dust
factories out in the sub= urbs of the solar system, replenishing the
supply. Landgraf and = his colleagues have estimated that 50 tons of
dust are produced every = second.

As with many things in the universe, violent collisions ar= e behind it all.

Using the old Pioneer data, Landgraf and his coll= eagues demonstrated
through computer modeling that comet-like ob= jects beyond the orbit
of Neptune are the sources of the dust.

= "They tend to collide with each other," Landgraf explains. "Much like
= a brick you let fall from your roof that hits the ground in your
drive= way, they explode into millions of pieces."

The solution might see= m obvious. But the distant comets, often called
Kuiper Belt Objects, w= ere not
known until the early 1990s. Only in the past five years or so= has
anyone tried to link them to the dust, Landgraf said.

The = research revealed another dust-generation method at work, too.
Alien d= ust -- typically even smaller particles -- wafts through the
galaxy, a= nd our solar system continually plows through it, Landgraf
said. Like = sandpaper, this interstellar dust rubs on comets and
makes more = dust.

Trapped

snip

See the web site for the rest of = the story - I got you to Pioneer 10
and 11 and that is what caught my = eye also but there is more, so
check out the whole story.
A few more snips about Pioneer 10 for those new to the list - LRK = -
--------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------------------------
http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Sp= ace_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html
Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 = was the first spacecraft to
travel through the Asteroid belt, and the = first spacecraft to make
direct observations and obtain close-up image= s of Jupiter. Famed as
the most remote object ever made by man, Pionee= r 10 is now over 7.3
billion miles away (Until 17 February 1998, the h= eliocentric radial
distance of Pioneer 10 had been greater than that o= f any other
manmade object. But late on that date Voyager 1's heliocen= tric radial
distance, in the approximate apex direction, equaled that = of Pioneer
10 at 69.419 AU. Thereafter, Voyager 1's distance will exce= ed that of
Pioneer 10 at the approximate rate of 1.016 AU per year). T= he
spacecraft made valuable scientific investigations in the outer
= regions of our solar system until the end of its mission on 31 March
1= 997. The Pioneer 10 weak signal continues to be tracked by the DSN
as = part of a new advanced concept study of chaos theory. Pioneer 10
is he= aded towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull). It will
take Pion= eer over 2 million years to pass by one of the stars in the
constellat= ion.
snip

http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pion= eer/PNStat.html
Pioneer 10 distance from Sun : 79.66 AU Speed relative= to the Sun:
12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph) Distance from Earth: 11.84 bill= ion
kilometers (7.36 billion miles) Round-trip Light Time: 21 hours 56=
minutes

Pioneer 10 had another successful track on 7/9/01 - ex= actly one year
after the last pointing maneuver. The original results = back on 7/9/00
- weak signal - seemed to indicate that the maneuver ma= y have
failed. The signal strengths from the latest tracks, however,indicate that last year's weak signal was probably due to the onboardone-way oscillator. Therefore, we conclude that the maneuver did
wor= k, and another pointing maneuver will not be necessary until first
qua= rter 2002.

Larry Lasher, Pioneer Project Manager
snip
------= -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----------------------
And for bragging rights - the image of the Pion= eer data is from the
Pioneer 10 Telemetry system re-written to run on = a Mac Quadra 950 by
yours truly back in 1995. The red switches i= ndicates that there were
some items out of limit. Cold, is Cold,= is Cold when you have shut
most everything off except Dr. Van Allen's= Geiger Tube Telescope.

The application software that was used to = write the program was
National Instrument's LabVIEW version 3.0,= which is now in version
6.1.

My how time does fly when you are= having fun.

LRK
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
If you any suggest= ions or comments please feel free to write to my Ames e-mail

lkell= ogg@mail.arc.nasa.gov

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------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C1B54B.A00D85E0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 14 13:26:53 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1ELQqk26831 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:26:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA26143 for bioastro-list; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:21:51 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe71.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.213]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26139 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:21:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:21:11 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.199.249] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Space-Based Missile Defense Needed to Thwart Asteroid Attacks Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:21:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1B573.9812F410" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2002 21:21:11.0787 (UTC) FILETIME=[86B953B0:01C1B59D] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1B573.9812F410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:40 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Space-Based Missile Defense Needed to Thwart Asteroid Attacks http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/deflection_asteroids_02= 0214.html Space-Based Missile Defense Needed to Thwart Asteroid Attacks space.com By Robert Roy Britt 14 February 2002 Earth is little more than a sitting duck in a cosmic shooting gallery, th= e scientists tell us. But that doesn't mean we can't shoot back. If an asteroid is ever found to have our planet in its sights, a carefully aime= d missile can simply knock the rock off course. There's one little problem. It's hard to deflect something that's coming right at you. Any boxer understands this. A slight bit of energy applied to a punch in = the right way can turn a roundhouse into a harmless glancing blow. But if you try and stop an upper cut by driving your chin directly into it, you'll g= o down for the count. Claudio Maccone at the Center for Astrodynamics in Turin, Italy, has a boxer's eye for asteroids, and he's developed what he claims is the best plan for protecting Earth. Put missiles in space, Maccone says, and hit the asteroids at an angle. Full story here: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/deflection_asteroids_02= 0214.html ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1B573.9812F410 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Space-Based Missile D= efense Needed to Thwart Asteroid Attacks
space.com
By Robert Roy Br= itt
14 February 2002

Earth is little more than a sitting duck i= n a cosmic shooting gallery, the
scientists tell us. But that doesn't = mean we can't shoot back. If an
asteroid is ever found to have our pla= net in its sights, a carefully aimed
missile can simply knock the rock= off course.

There's one little problem. It's hard to deflect some= thing that's coming
right at you.

Any boxer understands this. A= slight bit of energy applied to a punch in the
right way can turn a r= oundhouse into a harmless glancing blow. But if you
try and stop an up= per cut by driving your chin directly into it, you'll go
down for the = count.

Claudio Maccone at the Center for Astrodynamics in Turin, I= taly, has a
boxer's eye for asteroids, and he's developed what he clai= ms is the best
plan for protecting Earth.

Put missiles in space= , Maccone says, and hit the asteroids at an angle.

Full story here= :

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/deflection_ast= eroids_020214.html

------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1B573.9812F410-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Feb 14 13:29:36 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1ELTak32663 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA26301 for bioastro-list; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:24:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe132.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.125]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26297 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:24:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:24:23 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.199.249] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Lunar core melted? Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:24:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B574.0AC65B50" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2002 21:24:23.0469 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8F9ADD0:01C1B59D] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B574.0AC65B50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" -- Moon's Heart Melted, Say Lunar Love Numbers http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7410 Love numbers -- measures of how much a planet's surface and interior move in response to the gravitational pull of nearby bodies -- may indicate that the Moon has something like a molten slush surrounding its core, say researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Cornell biologists aim to grow 'bugs' responsible for greenhouse gas, methane, in NSF-funded microbial observatory http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7402 First View of a Newborn Millisecond Pulsar? http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7401 ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B574.0AC65B50 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
-- Moon's Hear= t Melted, Say Lunar Love Numbers
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.h= tml?pid=3D7410

Love numbers -- measures of how much a planet's sur= face and interior move
in response to the gravitational pull of nearby= bodies -- may indicate that
the Moon has something like a molten slus= h surrounding its core, say
researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labor= atory, Pasadena, Calif.

Cornell biologists aim to grow 'bugs' = responsible for greenhouse gas,
methane, in NSF-funded microbial obser= vatory
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D7402

Firs= t View of a Newborn Millisecond Pulsar?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/v= iewpr.html?pid=3D7401

------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C1B574.0AC65B50-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 15 13:39:17 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1FLdGk01937 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA03215 for bioastro-list; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:32:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe158.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.151]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03211 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:32:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:32:23 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.189.194] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: What's New for Feb 15, 2002 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:32:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B63E.4F286700" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2002 21:32:23.0155 (UTC) FILETIME=[414DB430:01C1B668] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B63E.4F286700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: What's New Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:30 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: What's New for Feb 15, 2002 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 15 Feb 02 Washington, DC 1. CREATIONISM: THIS ROSE, BY ANY OTHER NAME, STILL SMELLS. Having made Kansas an object of ridicule, this sad little comedy, now playing under the title "Intelligent Design," promises to do the same for Ohio and perhaps Washington state. They've dropped the "new Earth" stuff, but insist the "irreducible complexity" of nature must result from an intelligent designer (WN 27 Dec 96); a little slow maybe, but very intelligent. Tracing the roots of the ID movement took WN all the way back to 17th Century England. WN: "I understand you've had a nasty encounter with an apple." Isaac: "True, but it led me to an important discovery, apples are pulled toward the ground by gravity." WN: "Remarkable. What's your next project?" Isaac: "I'm looking into falling oranges." WN: "But wouldn't oranges follow the same law as apples?" Isaac: "Reductionist nonsense. You're mixing apples and oranges. We'll have to find the law for each fruit. This is the irreducible complexity that proves nature has an intelligent designer." 2. GLOBAL WARMING: INDUSTRY HAILS BUSH'S BOLD LEADERSHIP. In a speech yesterday, the President outlined his plan for reducing emissions. The solution, he explained, is not to risk American jobs by imposing restrictions on industry, but rather to ask industry to voluntarily reduce emission levels, while providing them with tax breaks and incentives to encourage investment in research. "Economic growth is the solution, not the problem," he said. Mr. Bush boldly called for an assessment in 2012 of how well his plan for dealing with emissions is working, at least 4 years after he's out of office. "What we're seeing is a balanced approach," cooed the chief spokesman for the coal industry. 3. R&D BUDGET: CONCERNS ARE VOICED OVER PORTFOLIO BALANCE. The House Science Committee this week grilled the Administration on the President's budget request. Jack Marburger, Director of OSTP and Rita Colwell, Director of NSF, were among those testifying. While supporting increases for NIH, Committee Chair Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) expressed the discomfort of many of the members: "The NIH cannot undergird economic health, or even improve human health, alone. Yet the NIH budget is now larger than the rest of the civilian science agencies put together, and just the increase in the NIH budget is larger than the research budget of NSF." 4. THE MORATORIUM: A VALENTINE TO BUSH FROM 75 LAWMAKERS. The letter, dated February 14, 2002, expresses "deep concern" about reports that the Bush Administration is considering development of a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons and resumption of underground nuclear testing. Since 9/11, pressure to develop "micro-nukes" has been justified by the use of hardened or deeply buried targets by terrorists. But in fact, the Dr. Strangeloves in the Pentagon have sought them for years. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND and THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the University or the American Physical Society, but they should be. ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B63E.4F286700 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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From: What's New

Sent: Friday, F= ebruary 15, 2002 4:30 PM

To:= ljk4@msn.com

Subject: What'= s New for Feb 15, 2002

WHAT'S NEW   Robe= rt L. Park   Friday, 15 Feb 02   Washington, DC
1. CREATIONISM: THIS ROSE, BY ANY OTHER NAME, STILL SMELLS.
Having m= ade Kansas an object of ridicule, this sad little comedy,
now playing = under the title "Intelligent Design," promises to do
the same for Ohio= and perhaps Washington state. They've dropped
the "new Earth" s= tuff, but insist the "irreducible complexity" of
nature must result fr= om an intelligent designer (WN 27 Dec 96); a
little slow maybe, but ve= ry intelligent. Tracing the roots of
the ID movement took WN all= the way back to 17th Century England.
WN: "I understand you've had a = nasty encounter with an apple."
Isaac: "True, but it led me to an impo= rtant discovery, apples are
pulled toward the ground by gravity." = ; WN: "Remarkable. What's
your next project?" Isaac: "I'm = looking into falling oranges."
WN: "But wouldn't oranges follow the sa= me law as apples?" Isaac:
"Reductionist nonsense. You're m= ixing apples and oranges. We'll
have to find the law for each fr= uit. This is the irreducible
complexity that proves nature has a= n intelligent designer."

2. GLOBAL WARMING: INDUSTRY HAILS BUSH'S = BOLD LEADERSHIP. In a
speech yesterday, the President outlined h= is plan for reducing
emissions. The solution, he explained, is n= ot to risk American
jobs by imposing restrictions on industry, but rat= her to ask
industry to voluntarily reduce emission levels, while provi= ding
them with tax breaks and incentives to encourage investment inresearch. "Economic growth is the solution, not the problem," hesaid. Mr. Bush boldly called for an assessment in 2012 of how
well h= is plan for dealing with emissions is working, at least 4
years after = he's out of office. "What we're seeing is a balanced
approach," cooed = the chief spokesman for the coal industry.

3. R&D BUDGET: CONC= ERNS ARE VOICED OVER PORTFOLIO BALANCE. The
House Science Commit= tee this week grilled the Administration on
the President's budget req= uest. Jack Marburger, Director of OSTP
and Rita Colwell, Directo= r of NSF, were among those testifying.
While supporting increases for = NIH, Committee Chair Sherwood
Boehlert (R-NY) expressed the discomfort= of many of the members:
"The NIH cannot undergird economic health, or= even improve human
health, alone. Yet the NIH budget is now lar= ger than the rest of
the civilian science agencies put together, and j= ust the increase
in the NIH budget is larger than the research budget = of NSF."

4. THE MORATORIUM: A VALENTINE TO BUSH FROM 75 LAWM= AKERS. The
letter, dated February 14, 2002, expresses "deep conc= ern" about
reports that the Bush Administration is considering develop= ment
of a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons and resumptionof underground nuclear testing. Since 9/11, pressure to develop"micro-nukes" has been justified by the use of hardened or deeply
bu= ried targets by terrorists. But in fact, the Dr. Strangeloves
in= the Pentagon have sought them for years.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLA= ND and THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Opinions are the author's and are= not necessarily shared by the
University or the American Physical Soc= iety, but they should be.
------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C1B63E.4F286700-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Feb 15 22:50:28 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1G6oQk29041 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id BAA26855 for bioastro-list; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:20:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe159.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.152]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA26851 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:20:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:19:27 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.189.241] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Mars rover model Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:19:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B687.EED59720" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2002 06:19:27.0806 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3107DE0:01C1B6B1] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B687.EED59720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:42 PM To: CUNEWS-CAMPUS-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Mars rover model Rover vehicle will explore Martian surface ---- but student-built, full-size model at Cornell will remain down to earth FOR RELEASE: Feb. 15, 2002 Contact: David Brand Office: 607-255-3651 E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments---- about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover. It is a finely detailed, full-scale model made out of wood, plastic and aluminum that will be put on display in science museums throughout central New York state. It has been built by eight university and two high school students working with Steven Squyres, Cornell University professor of astronomy, who is the principal investigator on the Athena science payload to be carried by the long-range rovers. Since last summer the students have been designing, machining and constructing the rover replica. Its folding solar-panel "deck" has a span of nearly 8 feet by more than 5 feet, and the height from the wheels to the top of the tallest instrument is nearly 5 feet. "As part of the NASA mission we regularly do educational outreach, but this time we wanted to do a multi-faceted effort that included not only work with schools but also would get the general public involved," says Diane Sherman, Athena project coordinator at Cornell's Department of Astronomy. "When we build models of space vehicles, they are generally not full size. But for this rover, Steve [Squyres] wanted to do full-size model and get the students involved in design and construction." Adds Sherman, "The students have done a phenomenal job." Painstakingly, they carved the rover and its suite of scientific instruments out of everyday materials. "The only off-the-shelf items we used were the bolts," says team leader Miles Johnson, a Cornell mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) senior. The wheels are made from plywood sheets glued together, cut and then lathed. The folding solar panels are made of spray-painted Plexiglas. The high-gain and low-gain antennas and the panoramic camera (Pancam) are aluminum and plastic. And, extending from the rover, like a prehensile, metal claw, is a suite of tools and cameras and spectrometers used for a close-up look at Martian rocks ---- an assembly machined from aluminum by Heather Arneson, a Cornell MAE senior. "It was very time-consuming," Arneson recalls. The solar panel deck even includes a model of the 3.25-inch-square sundial that is being sent to Mars aboard the rovers. Once the spacecraft has landed, the Pancam will monitor the sundial's shadow. Then the sundial lines can be put into the correct position and superimposed over the image of the sundial as it appears on the Web. The rover model is one of several contributions that young Cornellians have made to the 2004 Mars landing mission. Students also helped design and build a calibration target for two of the Athena science instruments and participated in the calibration of rover cameras at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, Calif. And Dan Maas, a recent Cornell graduate, has produced a computer-generated video of the mission for NASA that dramatizes the Mars mission with startling accuracy. The students who built the rover model include Ithaca College freshman Emily Dean; and from Cornell, in addition to Johnson and Arneson, Phil Chu, MAE '02; Renee Hillaire, MAE '02; and Matt Siegler, physics/film '03. The Mars Exploration Rover mission, scheduled for launch in 2003, is managed for NASA by JPL. Related World Wide Web sites: The following site provides additional information on this news release. o Athena: -30- The web version of this release, with accompanying photos, may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/Rover.model.deb.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B687.EED59720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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To: CUNEWS-CAMPUS-L@cornell.edu

a span of ne= arly 8 feet by more than 5 feet, and the height from the
wheels to the= top of the tallest instrument is nearly 5 feet.

"As part of the N= ASA mission we regularly do educational outreach,
but this time we wan= ted to do a multi-faceted effort that included
not only work with scho= ols but also would get the general public
involved," says Diane Sherma= n, Athena project coordinator at
Cornell's Department of Astronomy. "W= hen we build models of space
vehicles, they are generally not full siz= e. But for this rover, Steve
[Squyres] wanted to do full-size model an= d get the students involved
in design and construction."

Adds S= herman, "The students have done a phenomenal job."

Painstakingly, = they carved the rover and its suite of scientific
instruments out of e= veryday materials. "The only off-the-shelf items
we used were the bolt= s," says team leader Miles Johnson, a Cornell
mechanical and aerospace= engineering (MAE) senior. The wheels are
made from plywood shee= ts glued together, cut and then lathed. The
folding solar panels= are made of spray-painted Plexiglas. The
high-gain and low-gain= antennas and the panoramic camera (Pancam) are

aluminum and plast= ic. And, extending from the rover, like a
prehensile, metal claw= , is a suite of tools and cameras and
spectrometers used for a close-u= p look at Martian rocks ---- an
assembly machined from aluminum by Hea= ther Arneson, a Cornell MAE
senior. "It was very time-consuming," Arne= son recalls.

The solar panel deck even includes a model of the 3.2= 5-inch-square
sundial that is being sent to Mars aboard the rovers.&nb= sp; Once the
spacecraft has landed, the Pancam will monitor the sundia= l's shadow.
Then the sundial lines can be put into the correct positio= n and
superimposed over the image of the sundial as it appears on the = Web.

The rover model is one of several contributions that youngCornellians have made to the 2004 Mars landing mission. Studentsalso helped design and build a calibration target for two of the
Ath= ena science instruments and participated in the calibration of
rover c= ameras at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena,
Calif.&nbs= p; And Dan Maas, a recent Cornell graduate, has produced a
computer-ge= nerated video of the mission for NASA that dramatizes the
Mars mission= with startling accuracy.

The students who built the rover model i= nclude Ithaca College
freshman Emily Dean; and from Cornell, in additi= on to Johnson and
Arneson, Phil Chu, MAE '02; Renee Hillaire, MAE = ; '02; and Matt
Siegler, physics/film '03.

The Mars Exploration= Rover mission, scheduled for launch in 2003, is
managed for NASA by J= PL.

Related World Wide Web sites: The follow= ing site provides
additional information on this news release.

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o Athena: <http://athena.cornell.edu/>

-30-<= BR>

The web version of this release, with accompanying photos,= may be
found at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/Rover.m= odel.deb.html

Cornell University News Service
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Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4206
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------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B687.EED59720-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Sat Feb 16 08:27:39 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1GGRdk12797 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:27:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id LAA24621 for bioastro-list; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:20:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from mailout2-eri1.midsouth.rr.com (mailout2-eri1.midsouth.rr.com [24.165.200.7]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24607 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:20:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from panspermia.org (HubN-mcr-24-92-74-41.midsouth.rr.com [24.92.74.41]) by mailout2-eri1.midsouth.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1GGKGs12013; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:20:17 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C6E8719.7B3E9F07@panspermia.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:21:45 -0600 From: Brig Klyce X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI bioastro: Macroevolution demonstrationconfirms Darwin? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk It is claimed that a recent demonstration of macroevolution answers a major challenge to darwinism by creationists. According to the UCSD press release, the scientists at the University of California, San Diego, "have uncovered the first genetic evidence that explains how large-scale alterations to body plans were accomplished during the early evolution of animals." Their experiment "shows how new animal body plans could arise from a simple genetic mutation...." It sounds impressive, but it isn't. Reading on, we learn, "The scientists showed how modifications in the Hox gene Ubx... would have allowed the crustacean-like ancestors of Artemia, with limbs on every segment, to lose their hind legs...." So a simple mutation could have caused the loss of limbs. This result might count as an example of macroevolution, but not of macroevolutionary _progress_. For that, the result would have to be something like limbs on a creature than had none before. Such evolutionary steps have not been shown to be produced by simple mutations. I wish this challenge to darwinism were better recognized. Brig Klyce Acorn Enterprises LLC http://www.panspermia.org From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Sat Feb 16 09:34:50 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1GHYnk25201 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA27833 for bioastro-list; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:29:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe144.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.137]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27829 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:29:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:28:39 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.21.189.119] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: So Much Information Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:28:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B6E5.68534C20" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2002 17:28:39.0489 (UTC) FILETIME=[5F551B10:01C1B70F] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B6E5.68534C20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Karr Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:08 PM To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: So Much Information Special Sneak Preview (and subject to change): =20 http://www.csicop.org/groups/world-congress.html 1) AAAS Meeting In Boston (CSICOP Members as Speakers) 2) CSICOP Notes - New at the Skeptiseum 3) Kudos To Uncle Sam: FTC Says Psychic Hot Line Is Fraud =20 1) AAAS Meeting in Boston Three CSICOP-affiliated speakers will be presenting this weekend at the =20 annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting= s =20 in Boston, Massachusetts. Presenters include CSICOP fellows Eugenie Scot= t =20 and John Allan Paulos, as well as CSICOP on-line columnist Matt Nisbet. Scott is director of the National Center for Science Education. Paulos i= s =20 professor of mathematics at Temple University. Nisbet is a doctoral =20 student in science and political communication at Cornell University. All presentations will be held at the Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton =20 Boston, and the Hynes Convention Center. The venues are connected by an =20 indoor shopping mall and climate-controlled sky-bridges. Details on topic= s, =20 dates, and times are listed below. **DETAILS FOR EUGENIE SCOTT: 2002 Genome Seminar Genomes Around Us: What Are We Learning? Saturday, February 16 - Sunday, February 17, 2002 ORGANIZED BY: J. Craig Venter, Celera Genomics; Claire Fraser, The =20 Institute for Genomic Research; Barbara Jasny, Science Magazine The completion of a draft sequence of the human genome has heightened =20 awareness ofthe importance and vast potentials for genomic studies. As =20 information accumulates about an increasing variety of organisms, our =20 knowledge of the natural world, humans in particular, and an array of =20 diseases and disease processes will continue to expand. This continuing =20 annual seminar brings together leading researchers to examine the many =20 avenues for study and learning that derive from our greater understanding= =20 of human and other genomes. Areas to be addressed include new ways of usi= ng =20 genomic information, the genome and society, genomics and developing =20 countries, genomes and food, and the many "genomes around us." Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:00PM - 6:00PM Genomes, Evolution, and Society Interpretive Genomics with Sophisticated =20 Evolutionary Models: Steve Benner, University of Florida, Gainesville How Many Human Genes?: Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Race, Genomics, and Medicine: J. Craig Venter, Celera Genomics Genomics, Evolution, and Anitevolution: Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education Clinical Evolution of Genomics Applications: Judy Garber, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute **DETAILS FOR JOHN ALLAN PAULOS: TRACK: Science and Society TITLE: Show Me the Data! Wanted: More Accuracy in Media Reporting DATE: Friday, February 15, 2002 TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon ORGANIZERS: Leon H. Seitelman, University of Connecticut PARTICIPANTS: Leon H. Seitelman (Speaker),University of Connecticut: The Minefield of =20 Reporting Scientific Data: What's Needed, and Why John Allan Paulos (Speaker),Temple University: A Mathematician Reads the =20 Newspaper Constantine J. Maletskos (Speaker),Gloucester: The Saga of the U.S. Radiu= m =20 Toxicity Studies Donald Rubin (Speaker),Harvard University: The Use of Surrogate Outcomes = in =20 Experiments of Anthrax Vaccine Michael O. Finkelstein (Speaker),Columbia Law School: The Legal Reception= =20 of Statistical Evidence in the Implant Cases Terrence Moran (Speaker),New York University: Science in the Media SYNOPSIS: Applications of mathematical and statistical modeling are pervasive in =20 modern society, from interpretations of sociological and epidemiological =20 studies in professional journals, to reporting of economic data and =20 projected trends in the Wall Street Journal, to presentation of polling =20 data and bar graphs in USA Today. When this information is incompletely =20 understood or incorrectly interpreted, the consequences can be more than =20 simply inconvenient; the bankrupting of Dow Corning as a result of the =20 breast implant controversy, and the economic hardship to apple growers in= =20 Washington State as a result of the alar scare, are two examples that =20 spring to mind. Many other subjects, including the fairness and =20 completeness of the Florida vote in the 2000 Presidential election, and t= he =20 validity of perceived linkages between cancer cases and cell phone usage,= =20 or proximity of power lines, beg further scrutiny. The scientific =20 community's technical expertise, by helping the public to distinguish fac= t =20 from fiction in the interpretation of data, can inform and improve public= =20 policy choices. This symposium is organized by the principle that citizen= s =20 need to be made aware of the limitations in models, and the misuse of =20 statistics, where they occur. Experts in mathematical modeling and =20 statistics and subject areas will provide insight into use (and abuse) of= =20 these techniques, using examples and case studies from a broad range of =20 applications. The discussion includes observations about how recent =20 cultural change, particularly television, has redefined reality, and the =20 presentation and perception of information, and has affected this process= =20 of public education. **DETAILS FOR MATT NISBET: TRACK: Science and the Public Trust TITLE: Biotechnology Policy in Europe and North America: A Roundtable =20 Discussion DATE: Friday, February 15, 2002 TIME: 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ORGANIZERS: Susanna Hornig Priest, Texas A&M University PARTICIPANTS: Helge Torgersen (Speaker),Institute for Technology Assessment, Austrian =20 Academy of Sciences, Austria: Austria and the European Mainstream: Partin= g =20 Company Timo Rusanen (Speaker),University of Kuopio, Finland: Challenging the Ris= k =20 Society: The Case of Finland Suzanne de Cheveign=E9 (Speaker),Laboratoire Communications et Politique,= =20 France: Biotechnology Policy in France: Centralized Government or Citizen= =20 Governance? J=FCergen Hampel (Speaker),Center of Technology Assessment in =20 Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: Biotechnology in Germany: Between Boom and Bu= st Urs Dahinden (Speaker),Universitat Zurich, Switzerland: Biotechnology in =20 Switzerland: From Street Demonstrations to Regulations Edna F. Einsiedel (Speaker),University of Calgary: Food Labeling as =20 Battleground in the GMO Food Debate Martin Bauer (Speaker),London School of Economics, United Kingdom: Ethics= , =20 Ethos, and Trust in the Global Biotechnology Debate: The UK Experience Bruce V. Lewenstein (Speaker),Cornell University: Biotechnology in the U.= S. =20 Public Sphere, 1970-1999: Media and Policy Interactions Matthew C. Nisbet (Speaker),Cornell University: CO/W Bruce Lewenstein SYNOPSIS: The volatile public response to emerging biotechnology, both agricultural= =20 and medical, has challenged policymakers and members of the scientific =20 community to consider issues of public trust and accountability across =20 national boundaries in new ways. Policy development in Europe and North =20 America has taken place in diverse media and public opinion climates, =20 within divergent political cultures, producing different strategies and =20 outcomes. The widespread perception in the U.S. has been that national =20 differences in media reports and other cultural factors are largely =20 responsible for differing policy outcomes, but this perception may mask =20 other possible explanations. Different approaches to managing uncertainty= , =20 assessing technologies, and providing for public participation in policy =20 development also exist. Heavy industrial investment in biotechnology-base= d =20 research may strain the existing social contract between the scientific =20 community and the public, and these dynamics may play out in different wa= ys =20 in particular national contexts. Like perhaps no other contemporary set o= f =20 scientific developments, the emergence of biotechnology has forced the =20 scientific community to reexamine its relationship to society. This panel= =20 examines some of the factors shaping biotechnology policy development in =20 specific cases involving Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, =20 Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. Two panels address the view from =20 continental Europe and from North America and the U.K. 2) CSICOP Notes Contact: Kevin Christopher, PR Director, CSICOP press@csicop.org February 15, 2002 ITEMS: Skeptiseum Feature Gallery on Creationism, In Time for Darwin's Birthday Correction on CSICOP In the News In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday on February 12, CSICOP Announces th= e opening of its new Feature Gallery, devoted to the subject of Creationism= . Check it out at www.csicop.org/skeptiseum and click on the "Feature Exhib= it" link in the side bar. Anyone interested in finding out more about the nea= rly 100 celebrations of Darwin's birthday worldwide should visit the www.darwinday.org Web site. =20 I'd like to correct an error of omission in that January 28, 2002, CSICOP= In the News. The author of the article "Nauka, Antinauka, i mi Rovoy Krizis" which covered the Skeptic's Conference in Moscow last year and appeared i= n the Russian magazine "Nauka i Zhizn" (Science & Life) was Tatyana Zimina= . =20 3) Kudos To Uncle Sam: FTC Says Psychic Hot Line Is Fraud =20 She Didn't See It Coming FTC shuts down Miss Cleo's psychic hotline for fraud. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9812-2002Feb14.html ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C1B6E5.68534C20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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To:= CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

<= B>Subject: So Much Information

Special Sneak Preview (and subject to change= ):
http://www.csicop.org/groups/world-congress.html

1) AAA= S Meeting In Boston (CSICOP Members as Speakers)
2) CSICOP Notes - New= at the Skeptiseum
3) Kudos To Uncle Sam: FTC Says Psychic Hot Line Is= Fraud

1) AAAS Meeting in Boston

Three = CSICOP-affiliated speakers will be presenting this weekend at the
ann= ual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meetings <= BR>in Boston, Massachusetts. Presenters include CSICOP fellows Euge= nie Scott
and John Allan Paulos, as well as CSICOP on-line columnist = Matt Nisbet.

Scott is director of the National Center for Science = Education. Paulos is
professor of mathematics at Temple Univers= ity. Nisbet is a doctoral
student in science and political comm= unication at Cornell University.

All presentations will be held at= the Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton
Boston, and the Hynes Convention= Center. The venues are connected by an
indoor shopping mall and clim= ate-controlled sky-bridges. Details on topics,
dates, and times are l= isted below.

**DETAILS FOR EUGENIE SCOTT:

2002 Genome Semin= ar
Genomes Around Us: What Are We Learning?
Saturday, February 16 -= Sunday, February 17, 2002
ORGANIZED BY: J. Craig Venter, Celera Genom= ics; Claire Fraser, The
Institute for Genomic Research; Barbara Jasny= , Science Magazine

The completion of a draft sequence of the human= genome has heightened
awareness ofthe importance and vast potentials= for genomic studies. As
information accumulates about an increasing = variety of organisms, our
knowledge of the natural world, humans in p= articular, and an array of
diseases and disease processes will contin= ue to expand. This continuing
annual seminar brings together leading = researchers to examine the many
avenues for study and learning that d= erive from our greater understanding
of human and other genomes. Area= s to be addressed include new ways of using
genomic information, the = genome and society, genomics and developing
countries, genomes and fo= od, and the many "genomes around us."

Saturday, February 16, 2002<= BR>3:00PM - 6:00PM

Genomes, Evolution, and Society Interpretive Ge= nomics with Sophisticated
Evolutionary Models:
Steve Benner, Unive= rsity of Florida, Gainesville

How Many Human Genes?:
Victor Vel= culescu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Race, Genomic= s, and Medicine:
J. Craig Venter, Celera Genomics

Genomics, Evo= lution, and Anitevolution:
Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science = Education

Clinical Evolution of Genomics Applications:
Judy Gar= ber, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

**DETAILS FOR JOHN ALLAN PAU= LOS:

TRACK: Science and Society
TITLE: Show Me the Data! Wa= nted: More Accuracy in Media Reporting
DATE: Friday, February 15, 2002=
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
ORGANIZERS: Leon H. Seitelman, Univer= sity of Connecticut

PARTICIPANTS:
Leon H. Seitelman (Speaker),U= niversity of Connecticut: The Minefield of
Reporting Scientific Data:= What's Needed, and Why
John Allan Paulos (Speaker),Temple University:= A Mathematician Reads the
Newspaper
Constantine J. Maletskos (Spe= aker),Gloucester: The Saga of the U.S. Radium
Toxicity Studies
Don= ald Rubin (Speaker),Harvard University: The Use of Surrogate Outcomes in =
Experiments of Anthrax Vaccine
Michael O. Finkelstein (Speaker),Co= lumbia Law School: The Legal Reception
of Statistical Evidence in the= Implant Cases
Terrence Moran (Speaker),New York University: Science i= n the Media

SYNOPSIS:
Applications of mathematical and statisti= cal modeling are pervasive in
modern society, from interpretations of= sociological and epidemiological
studies in professional journals, t= o reporting of economic data and
projected trends in the Wall Street = Journal, to presentation of polling
data and bar graphs in USA Today.= When this information is incompletely
understood or incorrectly inte= rpreted, the consequences can be more than
simply inconvenient; the b= ankrupting of Dow Corning as a result of the
breast implant controver= sy, and the economic hardship to apple growers in
Washington State as= a result of the alar scare, are two examples that
spring to mind. Ma= ny other subjects, including the fairness and
completeness of the Flo= rida vote in the 2000 Presidential election, and the
validity of perc= eived linkages between cancer cases and cell phone usage,
or proximit= y of power lines, beg further scrutiny. The scientific
community's te= chnical expertise, by helping the public to distinguish fact
from fic= tion in the interpretation of data, can inform and improve public
pol= icy choices. This symposium is organized by the principle that citizens <= BR>need to be made aware of the limitations in models, and the misuse of =
statistics, where they occur. Experts in mathematical modeling and statistics and subject areas will provide insight into use (and abuse) = of
these techniques, using examples and case studies from a broad ran= ge of
applications. The discussion includes observations about how re= cent
cultural change, particularly television, has redefined reality,= and the
presentation and perception of information, and has affected= this process
of public education.

**DETAILS FOR MATT NISBET:<= BR>
TRACK: Science and the Public Trust
TITLE: Biotechnology Policy= in Europe and North America: A Roundtable
Discussion
DATE: Friday= , February 15, 2002
TIME: 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ORGANIZERS: Susanna= Hornig Priest, Texas A&M University
PARTICIPANTS:
Helge Torger= sen (Speaker),Institute for Technology Assessment, Austrian
Academy o= f Sciences, Austria: Austria and the European Mainstream: Parting
Com= pany
Timo Rusanen (Speaker),University of Kuopio, Finland: Challenging= the Risk
Society: The Case of Finland
Suzanne de Cheveign=E9 (Spe= aker),Laboratoire Communications et Politique,
France: Biotechnology = Policy in France: Centralized Government or Citizen
Governance?
J=FC= ergen Hampel (Speaker),Center of Technology Assessment in
Baden-Wurtt= emberg, Germany: Biotechnology in Germany: Between Boom and Bust
Urs D= ahinden (Speaker),Universitat Zurich, Switzerland: Biotechnology in
S= witzerland: From Street Demonstrations to Regulations
Edna F. Einsiede= l (Speaker),University of Calgary: Food Labeling as
Battleground in t= he GMO Food Debate
Martin Bauer (Speaker),London School of Economics, = United Kingdom: Ethics,
Ethos, and Trust in the Global Biotechnology = Debate: The UK Experience
Bruce V. Lewenstein (Speaker),Cornell Univer= sity: Biotechnology in the U.S.
Public Sphere, 1970-1999: Media and P= olicy Interactions
Matthew C. Nisbet (Speaker),Cornell University: CO/= W Bruce Lewenstein

SYNOPSIS:
The volatile public response to em= erging biotechnology, both agricultural
and medical, has challenged p= olicymakers and members of the scientific
community to consider issue= s of public trust and accountability across
national boundaries in ne= w ways. Policy development in Europe and North
America has taken plac= e in diverse media and public opinion climates,
within divergent poli= tical cultures, producing different strategies and
outcomes. The wide= spread perception in the U.S. has been that national
differences in m= edia reports and other cultural factors are largely
responsible for d= iffering policy outcomes, but this perception may mask
other possible= explanations. Different approaches to managing uncertainty,
assessin= g technologies, and providing for public participation in policy
deve= lopment also exist. Heavy industrial investment in biotechnology-based research may strain the existing social contract between the scientific=
community and the public, and these dynamics may play out in differe= nt ways
in particular national contexts. Like perhaps no other contem= porary set of
scientific developments, the emergence of biotechnology= has forced the
scientific community to reexamine its relationship to= society. This panel
examines some of the factors shaping biotechnolo= gy policy development in
specific cases involving Austria, Canada, Fi= nland, France, Germany,
Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. Two panels= address the view from
continental Europe and from North America and = the U.K.

2) CSICOP Notes

Contact: Kevin Christopher, PR= Director, CSICOP
press@csicop.org

February 15, 2002

ITE= MS:
Skeptiseum Feature Gallery on Creationism, In Time for Darwin's Bi= rthday
Correction on CSICOP In the News

In honor of Charles Dar= win's birthday on February 12, CSICOP Announces the
opening of its new= Feature Gallery, devoted to the subject of Creationism.
Check it out = at www.csicop.org/skeptiseum and click on the "Feature Exhibit"
link i= n the side bar. Anyone interested in finding out more about the nearly100 celebrations of Darwin's birthday worldwide should visit the
www.= darwinday.org Web site.

I'd like to correct an error of omission = in that January 28, 2002, CSICOP In
the News. The author of the articl= e "Nauka, Antinauka, i mi Rovoy Krizis"
which covered the Skeptic's Co= nference in Moscow last year and appeared in
the Russian magazine "Nau= ka i Zhizn" (Science & Life) was Tatyana Zimina.

3) Kud= os To Uncle Sam: FTC Says Psychic Hot Line Is Fraud

She Didn't Se= e It Coming
FTC shuts down Miss Cleo's psychic hotline for fraud.
h= ttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9812-2002Feb14.html

=
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ESA scientist = discovers a way to shortlist stars that might have planets
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D7433

Markus Landgr= af of the European Space Agency and colleagues have found the
fi= rst direct evidence that a bright disc of dust surrounds our Solar
Sys= tem, starting beyond the orbit of Saturn. Remarkably, their discovery
= gives astronomers a way to determine which other stars in the Galaxy are<= BR>most likely to harbour planets and allows mission planners to draw up = a
'short-list' of stars to be observed by ESA's future planet-searchmissions, Eddington and Darwin.

-- University of Florida Res= earcher: Distant Space Travel Better Conducted
as Family Affair

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D7426

Forge= t Starship Troopers and steely-eyed astronauts - the right stuff for
s= paceship travel to faraway solar systems is more likely to be a familyaffair conducted by mom, dad, the kids, kinfolk, and generations to come= ,
says a University of Florida anthropologist.

Livermore La= b Physicist to Discuss Exploration of Supernovae, Black Holes,
New Pla= nets and Beyond Using Laboratory Astrophysics

http://www.spaceref.c= om/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D7430

New in 2002: Intern= ational Journal of Astrobiology

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr= .html?pid=3D7425

PREMIER 2007 Mars orbital science= Announcement of Opportunity

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.ht= ml?pid=3D7422

Maryland Led Project Takes Big Step = Toward 2005 Comet Collision

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.htm= l?pid=3D7421

Planetary Society's Student Navigator= s Operate FIDO Rover

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D= 7418

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Message-ID: <23017-3C6EBD8B-1570@storefull-613.iap.bryant.webtv.net> In-Reply-To: Brig Klyce 's message of Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:21:45 -0600 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk always nice to see a little chum in the water c=iii=<0 From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Sun Feb 17 12:16:12 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1HKGBk24954 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA23713 for bioastro-list; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:10:20 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe155.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.148]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23703 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:10:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:09:39 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.186.175.188] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:09:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C1B7C5.0D1A9210" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2002 20:09:39.0803 (UTC) FILETIME=[07BDCAB0:01C1B7EF] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C1B7C5.0D1A9210 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Gonzales Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:13 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER Feb. 13, 2002: Greetings from Dennis Gonzales. Well, nothing has change for me lately. I'm more than ever busy at NASA = and with the last of the "2001" projects. We have a lot of exciting thin= gs coming out on the website in a few weeks. In the meantime, since this = is the World Tonight, we are happy to have original World Tonight newscas= ter, Kenneth Kendall from "2001" in this week's newsletter. "2001" fan N= ick Day contacted Mr. Kendall exclusively for this newsletter - Art Imitates Art: As a special feature in this issue of 'The World Tonight', we are pleased= to present an exclusive interview by Nick Day with Kenneth Kendall, who = introduced the report by 'Martin Amor' for 'The World Tonight' on BBC 12,= and now runs a Fine Art gallery on the Isle of Wight in the UK. WT: Good afternoon Mr. Kendall, and thanks very much for allowing us to i= nterview you. Firstly, did you meet Arthur C. Clarke or Kubrick, and do y= ou have any memories of them? KK: I met Stanley Kubrick, but not Clarke. He was there when the film was= being shot. The one memory I have of him is that when my scene was being= shot he asked me what I would have on the desk in front of me. I said th= at on the desk I would have a pen, and he said 'What sort of pen?=E2=80=99= and I showed him a Parker biro that I had, one of those brushed steel on= es. He said 'I think we'll have to have something better than that, to ma= ke it a little bit more authentic', which showed his desire for authentic= ity at all times. Anyway, when it came to the final shooting I didn't hav= e that pen and they only shot me from the shoulders upwards, so it didn't= make much difference, but it was a rather interesting little point I tho= ught. WT So initially he was suggesting you use a different pen, was he? KK Yes, he was going to have a different pen designed for it. WT I don't know if you know, Parker designed two pens for the film. KK Well one of those was going to be for me, bit it didn't... (laughs). [see for details of the pens] WT That's fascinating. I noticed you had your hands on a book there. Mayb= e you happen to remember what that was? KK I can't, I'm afraid. Also I can't remember where it was shot. I think = it was Shepperton but I can't be certain about that. WT Yes, the main studios where they shot the film were in Shepperton. Did= you see anything of the other filming or preparations? KK No, not at all. WT Did you meet 'Martin Amor', whose report you introduced, or know who p= layed him? KK No, I'm afraid not. The only other slight point, a bit more of a perso= nal thing, is that a few weeks after I'd done my part, my telephone rang = at home, and a man at the other end said that 'I'm the film representativ= e of Equity' [the UK actors' trades-union who strictly ensure that actors= appearing in films are members]. 'I believe that you've taken part in Ku= brick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.' I said 'Yes'. He said 'well, you're not a member of Equity, are you!' 'We= ll, no I'm not'. He said 'Don't you think you should be, because this is = a nineteen million dollar film?=E2=80=99 I took that as being slightly me= nacing. So I said 'yes, by all means I'll join Equity'. I did join Equity= ; I'm not an actor, but that's how it arose! WT ...and you've been a member ever since? KK Yes that's right. WT Well that's fascinating. KK It was rather odd, wasn't it? I don't know how he got my home telephon= e number since I was ex-directory anyway. They have their ways (laughs). = So that's all I can remember of the occasion at all. I can't remember whe= n it was shot, sometime in the mid to late Sixties I think. WT Yes, it would have about '65 I should think. [Actually, later than tha= t] Thanks very much indeed, Kenneth, that fills in a few interesting gaps= . Many thanks for your time. KK Bye! We thought the item about the pen most intriguing, and wonder if Kenneth = started Stanley thinking about pens; he contacted Parker but the prototyp= e was not ready in time for Kenneth's scene. Kubrick then thought of the = floating pen sequence, and the rest is history... from bone, to spacecraf= t, to pen. Maybe. We will post this interview in our World Tonight web pages next week. If= you like to contact Nick Day, email him at nday@cableinet.co.uk 2001:a space oddity kinetic sculpture: We're proud to present Paul Bailey's "2001" kinetic sculpture project hel= d last year. We hope to add much more pictures soon. Visit the art sect= ion in Gallery at http://www.2001exhibit.org/arts/bailey.html Paul Bailey, gpaulbailey@attbi.com "2001: Destination Space" Lives Again!: Thomas Halaczinsky from tudor-productions.com now has a 20-minute video d= ocumentary about the "2001:Destination Space" event across the United Sta= tes, which part of it, was broadcast in Europe. From Robert McCall to th= e Tech Museum, visit http://www.tudor-productions.com/2001 and to see an = example of the documentary, visit http://www.tudor-productions.com/movie.= html We are now working with Thomas on our own documentary, so stay tune about= this special video feature in the next few months! HAL 9000 Brain-Room Project: For the past week, photographer and model maker, Mark Watson and I have b= een re-building the Comdex brain-room at his house. It's grueling work b= ut I think we are ready for the final photo shoot this weekend and with G= ary Lockwood who cancelled this week. I want to thank Josh Koral, Harrison A. Lorenzana and Tom Seiler for help= ing us out. The set was designed and built by Josh Koral. Harrison A. L= orenzana created HAL. Tom Seiler researched HAL brain-room artwork. The= logo was re-created by Mike Jackson. Thanks to "2001" local fan, Terry = Boblet, see a sneak preview of behind the scenes, go to http://www.2001ex= hibit.org/science/img/DCP00249.JPG Website Update: This weekend, I will be upgrading the website's navigation so the latest = Netscape 6 and I.E. 5 browsers can interpret the DHTML. Sorry for the ma= ny people that have written to me about the unstable nav but we've been s= wamped and I will take care of this problem soon. "2001" Influence Alert: Orange County Space Society's President Larry Evans spotted an influence = to "2001" and "2010". Here are his comments: "I don't know if you caught it last Sunday, but it had many references to= 2001, including the main part, which was about the ship's computer which= just happened to have an interface with a faceplate and big red eye like= another famous computer we all know and love! At one point, Bender was w= ooing the computer by singing Daisy! Oh, I also forgot to mention that on= Futurama, the ending was right out of 2010 with a new star in the sky an= d the voice over narration." The Learning Channel "2001" Television Special Update: Model Makers, Alan Nadel and Mark Watson have sent out their models for s= hooting of the Learning Channel's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Arthur C. Cla= rke has been interviewed from Sri Lanka and more to come in next week's n= ewsletter. Fan Question: "2001" fan Dean Lillibridge is looking for any catalog or booklet which c= an have the Discovery One space craft model in details for a model to ass= emble. He can be reached at dwglillibridge@netzero.net "2001" fan Fred Robinson is looking for mission patches worn by astronaut= s in 2001 & 2010. Contact Fred at crabgras@sunlink.net HAL 900O Screensaver Update! FINALLY! The HAL 9000 screensaver has been updated: 2.09.2002 The HAL screensaver is 1.0 http://guide.net/~mental/hal9000/ Finally got the HAL 1.0 Screen Saver up for download. It took a lot longe= r than I thought it would, but hope you think it was worth it. It=E2=80=99= s probably as much as I can do to it without more reference material in t= he form of screen captures or still images from the film's production. I think over the last two years with the help of several people I=E2=80=99= ve tracked down every possible image that could be found. Still from time= to time rare things do pop-up like the short film "The Making of 2001" w= hich my friend James discovered recently though it contained no images of= HAL or his screens curiously enough. It was made in 1965 or 1966 as best= I can tell and featured filming on the sets at MGM while the scenes on t= he Discovery's centrifuge set. If anyone out there thinks they have images of HAL screens not featured i= n the screensaver, please let me know via email. mental@digiscape.com Thanks to everyone who helped on the screensaver; Dennis Gonzales for all= the reference image hunting, Wally Fields for recreating HAL's voice, Ma= tt Wilson for his AE-35 wireframe source model and Mike Drennan for helpi= ng convert the Flash projectors. A great big thanks guys for all the help= . "2001" Radio Shows: All 3 "2001" radio shows are now on-line for all to enjoy! Re-visit the P= ress section in Radio-Internet at http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/radio-= net.html See you next Wednesday (Frank) *************************************************************************= *********** Lego goes "2001"! http://spiteyourface.com/one/ Posted by, David L. Takemoto-Weerts, dltakemotoweerts@ucdavis.edu *************************************************************************= *********** Moonwatcher is now on-line. http://www.danrichter.com/ Posted by, Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com *************************************************************************= *********** "2001" spacesuit comes to life! http://www.2001spacesuit.com/ Posted by, Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com *************************************************************************= *********** Projects in progress or underway: 2001 Exhibition: Featuring Harry Lange's (2001 designer) original Works http://www.harry-lange.org.uk "2001: l'odyss=C2=BBe des maquettes" exhibit will present on tour in Fran= ce, with "2001" models displayed in chronological order as in the film with a 1/1 scale monolith. http://www.multimania.com/dixiemeplanete/expo2001.htm Clavius Moonbase model coming soon. Edward Martinez. Lunar Models Space Pod and ARIES coming soon. Dennis Gonzales and Mark Watson. HAL 9000 Model from Lunar Models built by Vince Hoffmann. Coming Soon! HAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.com. Coming Soon! SAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.com. Coming Soon! The Space:1999 Collectible and Nostalgic online exhibit is under construction. If you own,any original or scratch built models or artwork you want to display on the virtual exhibit, contact Dennis Gonzales, exhibit coordinator for details. The website will soon. http://www.2001exhibit.org/space1999.html. 2001 costumes are under construction. The costumes will be completely faithful in honor of fashion designer Hardy Amies. Photos will be on-line soon of the PAN AM female outfit re-created by costume designer, Andrea Edelman. ********************************************************************* Posted by: Dennis Gonzales 2001: A Space Odyssey Collectibles Exhibit. http://www.2001exhibit.org Tel: 650-604-0429 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be removed from this mailing list click on the link below http://www.2001exhibit.org/mailing/mail.cgi?ljk4@msn.com ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C1B7C5.0D1A9210 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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----- Original Message -----

From: Dennis Gonzales

Sent: Thur= sday, February 14, 2002 1:13 PM

= To: ljk4@msn.com

Subject: THE WORLD TONIGHT NEWSLETTER

THE WORLD TONIGHT N= EWSLETTER

Feb. 13, 2002:

Greetings from Dennis Gonzales= .

Well, nothing has change for me lately. I'm more than ever= busy at NASA and with the last of the "2001" projects. We have a l= ot of exciting things coming out on the website in a few weeks. In the me= antime, since this is the World Tonight, we are happy to have original Wo= rld Tonight newscaster, Kenneth Kendall from "2001" in this week's newsle= tter. "2001" fan Nick Day contacted Mr. Kendall exclusively for thi= s newsletter -

Art Imitates Art:
As a special feature in this i= ssue of 'The World Tonight', we are pleased to present an exclusive inter= view by Nick Day with Kenneth Kendall, who introduced the report by 'Mart= in Amor' for 'The World Tonight' on BBC 12, and now runs a Fine Art galle= ry on the Isle of Wight in the UK.

WT: Good afternoon Mr. Kendall,= and thanks very much for allowing us to interview you. Firstly, did you = meet Arthur C. Clarke or Kubrick, and do you have any memories of them?
KK: I met Stanley Kubrick, but not Clarke. He was there when the fi= lm was being shot. The one memory I have of him is that when my scene was= being shot he asked me what I would have on the desk in front of me. I s= aid that on the desk I would have a pen, and he said 'What sort of pen?=E2= =80=99 and I showed him a Parker biro that I had, one of those brushed st= eel ones. He said 'I think we'll have to have something better than that,= to make it a little bit more authentic', which showed his desire for aut= henticity at all times. Anyway, when it came to the final shooting I didn= 't have that pen and they only shot me from the shoulders upwards, so it = didn't make much difference, but it was a rather interesting little point= I thought.

WT So initially he was suggesting you use a different = pen, was he?

KK Yes, he was going to have a different pen designed= for it.

WT I don't know if you know, Parker designed two pens for= the film.

KK Well one of those was going to be for me, bit it did= n't... (laughs).

[see <http://www.underview.com/2001/how.html&g= t; for details of the pens]

WT That's fascinating. I noticed you h= ad your hands on a book there. Maybe you happen to remember what that was= ?

KK I can't, I'm afraid. Also I can't remember where it was shot.= I think it was Shepperton but I can't be certain about that.

WT Y= es, the main studios where they shot the film were in Shepperton. Did you= see anything of the other filming or preparations?

KK No, not at = all.

WT Did you meet 'Martin Amor', whose report you introduced, o= r know who played him?

KK No, I'm afraid not. The only other sligh= t point, a bit more of a personal thing, is that a few weeks after I'd do= ne my part, my telephone rang at home, and a man at the other end said th= at 'I'm the film representative of Equity' [the UK actors' trades-union w= ho strictly ensure that actors appearing in films are members]. 'I believ= e that you've taken part in Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.'
<= BR>I said 'Yes'. He said 'well, you're not a member of Equity, are you!' = 'Well, no I'm not'. He said 'Don't you think you should be, because this = is a nineteen million dollar film?=E2=80=99 I took that as being slightly= menacing. So I said 'yes, by all means I'll join Equity'. I did join Equ= ity; I'm not an actor, but that's how it arose!

WT ...and you've b= een a member ever since?

KK Yes that's right.

WT Well that'= s fascinating.

KK It was rather odd, wasn't it? I don't know how h= e got my home telephone number since I was ex-directory anyway. They have= their ways (laughs). So that's all I can remember of the occasion at all= . I can't remember when it was shot, sometime in the mid to late Sixties = I think.

WT Yes, it would have about '65 I should think. [Actually= , later than that] Thanks very much indeed, Kenneth, that fills in a few = interesting gaps. Many thanks for your time.

KK Bye!

We tho= ught the item about the pen most intriguing, and wonder if Kenneth starte= d Stanley thinking about pens; he contacted Parker but the prototype was = not ready in time for Kenneth's scene. Kubrick then thought of the floati= ng pen sequence, and the rest is history... from bone, to spacecraft, to = pen. Maybe.

We will post this interview in our World Tonight web p= ages next week. If you like to contact Nick Day, email him at nday@= cableinet.co.uk

2001:a space oddity kinetic sculpture:
We'r= e proud to present Paul Bailey's "2001" kinetic sculpture project held la= st year. We hope to add much more pictures soon. Visit the ar= t section in Gallery at http://www.2001exhibit.org/arts/bailey.html
Paul Bailey, gpaulbailey@attbi.com

"2001: Destination Space"= Lives Again!:
Thomas Halaczinsky from tudor-productions.com now has a= 20-minute video documentary about the "2001:Destination Space" event acr= oss the United States, which part of it, was broadcast in Europe. F= rom Robert McCall to the Tech Museum, visit http://www.tudor-productions.= com/2001 and to see an example of the documentary, visit http://www.tudor= -productions.com/movie.html

We are now working with Thomas on our = own documentary, so stay tune about this special video feature in the nex= t few months!

HAL 9000 Brain-Room Project:
For the past wee= k, photographer and model maker, Mark Watson and I have been re-building = the Comdex brain-room at his house. It's grueling work but I think = we are ready for the final photo shoot this weekend and with Gary Lockwoo= d who cancelled this week.
I want to thank Josh Koral, Harrison A. Lor= enzana and Tom Seiler for helping us out. The set was designed and = built by Josh Koral. Harrison A. Lorenzana created HAL. Tom S= eiler researched HAL brain-room artwork. The logo was re-created by= Mike Jackson. Thanks to "2001" local fan, Terry Boblet, see a snea= k preview of behind the scenes, go to http://www.2001exhibit.org/science/= img/DCP00249.JPG

Website Update:
This weekend, I will be up= grading the website's navigation so the latest Netscape 6 and I.E. 5 brow= sers can interpret the DHTML. Sorry for the many people that have w= ritten to me about the unstable nav but we've been swamped and I will tak= e care of this problem soon.

"2001" Influence Alert:
Orange= County Space Society's President Larry Evans spotted an influence to "20= 01" and "2010". Here are his comments:

"I don't know if you = caught it last Sunday, but it had many references to 2001, including the = main part, which was about the ship's computer which just happened to hav= e an interface with a faceplate and big red eye like another famous compu= ter we all know and love! At one point, Bender was wooing the computer by= singing Daisy! Oh, I also forgot to mention that on Futurama, the ending= was right out of 2010 with a new star in the sky and the voice over narr= ation."

The Learning Channel "2001" Television Special Update:=
Model Makers, Alan Nadel and Mark Watson have sent out their models f= or shooting of the Learning Channel's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Arth= ur C. Clarke has been interviewed from Sri Lanka and more to come in next= week's newsletter.

Fan Question:
"2001" fan Dean Lillibrid= ge is looking for any catalog or booklet which can have the Discovery One= space craft model in details for a model to assemble. He can be re= ached at dwglillibridge@netzero.net

"2001" fan Fred Robinson is lo= oking for mission patches worn by astronauts in 2001 & 2010. Co= ntact Fred at crabgras@sunlink.net

HAL 900O Screensaver Update= !
FINALLY! The HAL 9000 screensaver has been updated:

2.0= 9.2002
The HAL screensaver is 1.0
http://guide.net/~mental/hal9000/=

Finally got the HAL 1.0 Screen Saver up for download. It took a l= ot longer than I thought it would, but hope you think it was worth it. It= =E2=80=99s probably as much as I can do to it without more reference mate= rial in the form of screen captures or still images from the film's produ= ction.

I think over the last two years with the help of several pe= ople I=E2=80=99ve tracked down every possible image that could be found. = Still from time to time rare things do pop-up like the short film "The Ma= king of 2001" which my friend James discovered recently though it contain= ed no images of HAL or his screens curiously enough. It was made in 1965 = or 1966 as best I can tell and featured filming on the sets at MGM while = the scenes on the Discovery's centrifuge set.

If anyone out there = thinks they have images of HAL screens not featured in the screensaver, p= lease let me know via email. mental@digiscape.com

Thanks to everyo= ne who helped on the screensaver; Dennis Gonzales for all the reference i= mage hunting, Wally Fields for recreating HAL's voice, Matt Wilson for hi= s AE-35 wireframe source model and Mike Drennan for helping convert the F= lash projectors. A great big thanks guys for all the help.

"20= 01" Radio Shows:
All 3 "2001" radio shows are now on-line for all to e= njoy! Re-visit the Press section in Radio-Internet at http://www.2001exhi= bit.org/press/radio-net.html

See you next Wednesday (Frank)
************************************************************************= ************

Lego goes "2001"!

http://spiteyourface.com/one= /

Posted by, David L. Takemoto-Weerts, dltakemotoweerts@ucdavis.ed= u

****************************************************************= ********************

Moonwatcher is now on-line.

http://www= .danrichter.com/

Posted by, Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com
=
*********************************************************************= ***************

"2001" spacesuit comes to life!

http://www.= 2001spacesuit.com/

Posted by, Mike Jackson, mental@digiscape.com
*******************************************************************= *****************

Projects in progress or underway:

2001 Ex= hibition: Featuring Harry Lange's (2001 designer) original
Works http:= //www.harry-lange.org.uk

"2001: l'odyss=C2=BBe des maquettes" = exhibit will present on tour in France,
with "2001" models displayed i= n chronological order as in the film with
a 1/1 scale monolith.
htt= p://www.multimania.com/dixiemeplanete/expo2001.htm

Clavius Moonbas= e model coming soon. Edward Martinez.

Lunar Models Space Pod= and ARIES coming soon.   Dennis Gonzales and
Mark Watson.
HAL 9000 Model from Lunar Models built by Vince Hoffmann. Coming So= on!

HAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, IndustrialDNA@aol.co= m.
Coming Soon!

SAL 9000. Built by Harrison A. Lorenzana, Indus= trialDNA@aol.com.
Coming Soon!

The Space:1999 Collectible and N= ostalgic online exhibit is under
construction. If you own,any original= or scratch built models or
artwork you
want to display on the virt= ual exhibit, contact Dennis Gonzales,
exhibit coordinator for details.= The website will soon.
http://www.2001exhibit.org/space1999.html.
=
2001 costumes are under construction. The costumes will be completely=
faithful in honor of fashion designer Hardy Amies. Photos will be
= on-line soon of the PAN AM female outfit re-created by costume desi= gner,
Andrea Edelman.
*********************************************= ************************

Posted by:
Dennis Gonzales
2001: A = Space Odyssey Collectibles Exhibit.
http://www.2001exhibit.org

= Tel: 650-604-0429

--------------------------------------------= -----------------------------
To be removed from this mailing list
= click on the link below
http://www.2001exhibit.org/mailing/mail.cgi?lj= k4@msn.com

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SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK #02- 8
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**** SP= ACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For February 11-17
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Outlook For February 20= -26
Space weather is expected to increase to minor to moderate levels.=
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------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C1B97D.37944900-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Feb 19 17:01:38 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1K11bk11254 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id TAA19879 for bioastro-list; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:55:02 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe100.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.242]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19869 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:54:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:54:28 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.186.170.152] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Bethe Lecturer Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:54:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000F_01C1B97F.3B2DFFA0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2002 00:54:28.0161 (UTC) FILETIME=[2605CB10:01C1B9A9] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000F_01C1B97F.3B2DFFA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:40 PM To: CUNEWS-PHYSICAL_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Bethe Lecturer Stanford E. Woosley, expert on giant stellar explosions, to give three talks at Cornell FOR RELEASE: Feb. 18, 2002 Contact: David Brand Office: 607-255-3651 E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- Stanford E. Woosley, an international authority on the physics of giant stellar explosions, called supernovae, will be the 2001-2002 Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University, presenting three talks in February and March. Woosley is professor of astronomy and chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He will present three formal lectures, all of which will be held in Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus: two physics colloquia,``Core Collapse Supernovae,'' on Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m., and ``Type Ia Supernovae'' on March 4 at 4:30 p.m.; and a public lecture,``Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions Since the Big Bang,'' on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. (Ia refers to one of the two basic physical types of supernovae.) The Bethe Lectures, established by the Cornell Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences, honor Hans A. Bethe, the John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell. Bethe won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967 for his description of the nuclear processes that fuel the sun. The lectures have been given annually since 1977. Woosley also is a noted authority on the evolution of massive stars toward their explosive deaths. This and supernovae are =DEelds of research to which Bethe also has contributed important theoretical advances. -30- The web version of this release, with accompanying photos, may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb02/Woosley.Bethelec.deb.html Cornell University News Service Surge 3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-4206 cunews@cornell.edu http://www.news.cornell.edu ------=_NextPart_001_000F_01C1B97F.3B2DFFA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Stanford E. Woosley, expert on giant= stellar explosions, to give
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FOR RELEASE= : Feb. 18, 2002

Contact: David Brand
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E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu

ITHACA, N.Y. -= - Stanford E. Woosley, an international authority on
the physics of gi= ant stellar explosions, called supernovae, will be
the 2001-2002 Hans = A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University,
presenting three talks in Feb= ruary and March.

Woosley is professor of astronomy and chair of th= e Department of
Astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.=

He will present three formal lectures, all of which will be held = in
Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus: two<= BR>physics colloquia,``Core Collapse Supernovae,'' on Feb. 25 at 4:30
= p.m., and ``Type Ia Supernovae'' on March 4 at 4:30 p.m.; and a
public= lecture,``Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions Since the
Big Ba= ng,'' on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. (Ia refers to one of the two
basic physi= cal types of supernovae.)

The Bethe Lectures, established by the C= ornell Department of Physics
and the College of Arts and Sciences, hon= or Hans A. Bethe, the John
Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics Emeri= tus at Cornell. Bethe won
the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967 for= his description of the nuclear
processes that fuel the sun. The= lectures have been given annually
since 1977.

Woosley also is = a noted authority on the evolution of massive stars
toward their explo= sive deaths. This and supernovae are =DEelds of
research to which Beth= e also has contributed important theoretical
advances.

= -30-

The web version of this release, with accompanying ph= otos, may be
found at
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