From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 10:10:59 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71HAw2D011903 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA01214 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:58:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe141.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.134]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01210 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:58:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:58:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: [vsnet-alert 7441] SN 2002ed in NGC 5468, the host galaxy of SN 2002cr Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:57:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C2395B.0C10CCF0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 16:58:01.0307 (UTC) FILETIME=[98434AB0:01C2397C] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C2395B.0C10CCF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Hitoshi YAMAOKA Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:44 AM To: vsnet-campaign-sn@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp; vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-= u.ac.jp; isnchat@yahoogroups.com; astro-l@uwwvax.uww.edu Subject: [vsnet-alert 7441] SN 2002ed in NGC 5468, the host galaxy of SN = 2002cr Dear SN watchers, Berto Monard discovered another SN than SN 2002cy. The host galaxy NGC 5468 also produced SN Ia 2002cr [vsnet-campaign-sn 418]. New SN is discovered on July 27.77 UT when it was mag about 16.5. It was confirmed on July 28.70 UT with mag about 16.4. The position of SN 2002ed is reported as R.A. =3D 14h06m38s.2, Decl. =3D -5o27'29" (2000.0), which is 55" east and 15" south of the center of a face-on spiral (SAB(rs)cd) galaxy NGC 5468. It was also detected on the KAIT images taken on July 24-29, but was not seen on July 23 image (limiting mag 17.5) taken by Berto. SN 2002cr was discovered this May in the same galaxy. It was of type Ia, and reached its maximum (mag about 14.2) around May 13. It can still be seen at mag about 17.8, so you can enjoy "double explosion" for a while. The discovery image can be seen at: ftp://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ed/ NGC 5468 also produced SN Ia 1999cp. So this galaxy is quite profilic. Such examples that 3 SNe in 3 calendar years are: NGC 664 Sb: SNe 1996bw, 1997W, 1999eb NGC 6754 SAB(rs)bc SNe 1998X, 1998dq, 2000do All of them including NGC 5468 are open spiral galaxies, which is active in star formation. Sincerely Yours, Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C2395B.0C10CCF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hitoshi YAMAOKA
Sent: Thur= sday, August 01, 2002 1:44 AM
To= : vsnet-campaign-sn@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp; vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyot= o-u.ac.jp; isnchat@yahoogroups.com; astro-l@uwwvax.uww.edu
Subject: [vsnet-alert 7441] SN 2002ed in N= GC 5468, the host galaxy of SN 2002cr
 
Dear SN watc= hers,

  Berto Monard discovered another SN than SN 2002cy.&nb= sp; The host galaxy
NGC 5468 also produced SN Ia 2002cr [vsnet-campaig= n-sn 418].

  New SN is discovered on July 27.77 UT when it wa= s mag about 16.5.
It was confirmed on July 28.70 UT with mag about 16.= 4.  The position
of SN 2002ed is reported as R.A. =3D 14h06m38s.2= , Decl. =3D -5o27'29"
(2000.0), which is 55" east and 15" south of the= center of a face-on
spiral (SAB(rs)cd) galaxy NGC 5468.  It was = also detected on the KAIT
images taken on July 24-29, but was not seen= on July 23 image
(limiting mag 17.5) taken by Berto.

  SN= 2002cr was discovered this May in the same galaxy.  It was of
ty= pe Ia, and reached its maximum (mag about 14.2) around May 13.  Itcan still be seen at mag about 17.8, so you can enjoy "double
explos= ion" for a while.  The discovery image can be seen at:

 = ftp://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/SNe/sn2002ed/

 = NGC 5468 also produced SN Ia 1999cp.  So this galaxy is quite
pr= ofilic.  Such examples that 3 SNe in 3 calendar years are:

NG= C 664   Sb:        &nbs= p; SNe 1996bw, 1997W,  1999eb
NGC 6754  SAB(rs)bc  = ;  SNe 1998X,  1998dq, 2000do

All of them including NGC = 5468 are open spiral galaxies, which is
active in star formation.
<= BR>Sincerely Yours,
Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan
yamaoka@rc= .kyushu-u.ac.jp
------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C2395B.0C10CCF0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 10:15:35 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71HFX2D020922 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA01223 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:59:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe101.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.243]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01219 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:59:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:58:38 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: AstroAlert: New Comet Hoenig Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:58:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2395B.1FF2D3D0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 16:58:38.0994 (UTC) FILETIME=[AEB9DF20:01C2397C] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2395B.1FF2D3D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger W. Sinnott Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:14 PM To: comet@SkyandTelescope.com Subject: AstroAlert: New Comet Hoenig ================================================================== This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Comets ================================================================== ================================================================== This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Comets ================================================================== NEW COMET HOENIG (C/2002 O4) A comet discovered last week by Sebastian Hoenig from near Heidelberg, Germany, should become a fairly easy target for small telescopes during the next three months. Currently magnitude 10 and crossing the Andromeda-Cassiopeia border, the nearly tailless object is expected to brighten to magnitude 9 by mid-August as it enters the north circumpolar sky. Thereafter it remains accessible to Northern Hemisphere observers before dawn, eventually working its way south across the galaxy-rich sections of Coma Berenices and Virgo in late October. At the end of this message is a day-by-day ephemeris for telescope users. It is based on the preliminary orbital elements calculated by Gareth V. Williams and issued on IAU Circular 7941 last night. (To subscribe to that service, visit http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html .) According to Williams, the comet will reach perihelion (its closest point to the Sun) on October 1st, when it lie between the orbits of Venus and the Earth. It is traveling in a near-parabolic orbit inclined 73 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. With this find, Sebastian Hoenig apparently becomes the first amateur astronomer to discover a comet from German soil since June 1946, when Anton Weber in Berlin was a codiscoverer of Comet Pajdusakova-Rotbart-Weber (C/1946 K1). Hoenig is no stranger to comets, however; he is also credited with locating 20 comets in SOHO spacecraft images of the Sun's vicinity. Congratulations, Sebastian! It was just more than a week ago, during the predawn hours of July 22nd, that Hoenig spotted what appeared to be a 12th-magnitude glow near the Pegasus-Andromeda border with his 10-inch (25-cm) Meade LX-200 telescope. But he didn't have a star chart with him, for he was simply out to enjoy the first clear night after a week of bad weather. He didn't even have a piece of paper on which to make notes until he found an empty water bottle in his car. The bottle's small white label was just large enough for him to make a sketch of the bright stars in the vicinity of his comet suspect. He estimated it to be moving due north at about 3 arcminutes per hour. (To read the discoverer's own fascinating account, visit his Web site at http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~shoenig/2002o4.html ). Even after reporting the find to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, Hoenig could not rest easy. Owing to a very bright Moon and the uncertainty in the comet's position, neither he nor anyone else could confirm the find for another five days. Finally on July 27th, Ken-ichi Kadota (Saitama, Japan) secured a CCD image of the comet, which by then had traveled a full 8 degrees north of Hoenig's initial position. The ephemeris below, calculated from Williams's preliminary orbital elements, gives the comet's right ascension and declination (equinox 2000.0) at 0 hours Universal Time on selected dates. Also listed are the comet's distance from the Earth (delta) and Sun (r) in astronomical units (where 1 a.u. is about 149,600,000 kilometers), its elongation angle from the Sun in degrees, predicted magnitude, and the constellation though which it is passing. (If the numbers in the columns don't line up properly, reset your e-mail program to a fixed-width type font like Courier.) Roger W. Sinnott Senior Editor Sky & Telescope ----------------------------------------------------------- Comet Hoenig (C/2002 O4) Date R.A. Dec. Delta r Elong. Mag. Const. (0h UT) h m o ' a.u. a.u. o Aug 1 23 12.5 +49 08 0.699 1.374 105.1 10.1 And Aug 2 23 09.4 +51 13 0.690 1.360 104.3 10.0 And Aug 3 23 05.8 +53 21 0.681 1.347 103.4 10.0 Cas Aug 4 23 01.7 +55 30 0.674 1.333 102.4 9.9 Cas Aug 5 22 57.0 +57 40 0.667 1.320 101.4 9.8 Cep Aug 6 22 51.5 +59 52 0.662 1.306 100.2 9.8 Cep Aug 7 22 45.1 +62 03 0.658 1.293 99.0 9.7 Cep Aug 8 22 37.6 +64 15 0.654 1.279 97.8 9.6 Cep Aug 9 22 28.6 +66 24 0.652 1.266 96.5 9.6 Cep Aug 10 22 17.9 +68 32 0.651 1.252 95.1 9.5 Cep Aug 11 22 05.0 +70 36 0.650 1.239 93.7 9.5 Cep Aug 12 21 49.1 +72 35 0.651 1.226 92.2 9.5 Cep Aug 13 21 29.4 +74 27 0.653 1.212 90.7 9.4 Cep Aug 14 21 05.0 +76 10 0.655 1.199 89.2 9.4 Cep Aug 15 20 34.6 +77 40 0.659 1.186 87.7 9.3 Cep Aug 16 19 57.5 +78 52 0.664 1.173 86.2 9.3 Dra Aug 17 19 13.6 +79 43 0.669 1.160 84.6 9.3 Dra Aug 18 18 25.1 +80 08 0.675 1.147 83.1 9.2 Dra Aug 19 17 35.9 +80 06 0.682 1.134 81.5 9.2 UMi Aug 20 16 50.2 +79 38 0.690 1.122 80.0 9.2 UMi Aug 21 16 10.8 +78 50 0.698 1.109 78.5 9.2 UMi Aug 22 15 38.2 +77 48 0.707 1.096 77.0 9.1 UMi Aug 23 15 11.9 +76 35 0.717 1.084 75.5 9.1 UMi Aug 24 14 50.6 +75 16 0.727 1.071 74.1 9.1 UMi Aug 25 14 33.5 +73 54 0.738 1.059 72.7 9.1 UMi Aug 26 14 19.4 +72 30 0.750 1.047 71.3 9.1 UMi Aug 27 14 07.7 +71 06 0.762 1.035 69.9 9.1 UMi Aug 28 13 58.0 +69 42 0.774 1.023 68.5 9.0 UMi Aug 29 13 49.7 +68 19 0.786 1.012 67.2 9.0 Dra Aug 30 13 42.6 +66 57 0.799 1.000 65.9 9.0 Dra Aug 31 13 36.4 +65 37 0.813 0.989 64.7 9.0 Dra Sep 1 13 31.0 +64 19 0.826 0.978 63.4 9.0 Dra Sep 2 13 26.3 +63 02 0.840 0.967 62.2 9.0 UMa Sep 3 13 22.0 +61 48 0.854 0.956 61.1 9.0 UMa Sep 4 13 18.2 +60 35 0.868 0.945 59.9 8.9 UMa Sep 5 13 14.8 +59 24 0.883 0.935 58.8 8.9 UMa Sep 6 13 11.7 +58 15 0.897 0.925 57.7 8.9 UMa Sep 7 13 08.8 +57 08 0.912 0.915 56.6 8.9 UMa Sep 8 13 06.2 +56 02 0.926 0.905 55.6 8.9 UMa Sep 9 13 03.8 +54 58 0.941 0.896 54.6 8.9 UMa Sep 10 13 01.5 +53 56 0.956 0.886 53.6 8.9 UMa Sep 11 12 59.4 +52 55 0.971 0.877 52.6 8.9 UMa Sep 12 12 57.4 +51 55 0.985 0.869 51.7 8.9 CVn Sep 13 12 55.6 +50 56 1.000 0.861 50.8 8.8 CVn Sep 14 12 53.8 +49 59 1.015 0.853 49.9 8.8 CVn Sep 15 12 52.1 +49 03 1.029 0.845 49.1 8.8 CVn Sep 16 12 50.6 +48 08 1.044 0.838 48.2 8.8 CVn Sep 17 12 49.1 +47 14 1.058 0.831 47.4 8.8 CVn Sep 18 12 47.6 +46 21 1.073 0.824 46.6 8.8 CVn Sep 19 12 46.2 +45 28 1.087 0.818 45.9 8.8 CVn Sep 20 12 44.9 +44 37 1.101 0.813 45.1 8.8 CVn Sep 21 12 43.6 +43 46 1.115 0.807 44.4 8.8 CVn Sep 22 12 42.4 +42 55 1.129 0.802 43.7 8.8 CVn Sep 23 12 41.2 +42 06 1.142 0.798 43.1 8.8 CVn Sep 24 12 40.1 +41 17 1.156 0.794 42.4 8.8 CVn Sep 25 12 39.0 +40 28 1.169 0.790 41.8 8.8 CVn Sep 26 12 38.0 +39 40 1.182 0.787 41.2 8.8 CVn Sep 27 12 36.9 +38 52 1.194 0.785 40.7 8.8 CVn Sep 28 12 36.0 +38 05 1.207 0.782 40.2 8.8 CVn Sep 29 12 35.0 +37 18 1.219 0.781 39.7 8.9 CVn Sep 30 12 34.1 +36 31 1.231 0.779 39.2 8.9 CVn Oct 1 12 33.2 +35 44 1.242 0.779 38.8 8.9 CVn Oct 6 12 29.3 +31 55 1.296 0.782 37.1 9.0 CVn Oct 11 12 26.0 +28 11 1.342 0.798 36.2 9.2 Com Oct 16 12 23.4 +24 30 1.380 0.825 36.3 9.4 Com Oct 21 12 21.2 +20 52 1.410 0.861 37.1 9.6 Com Oct 26 12 19.5 +17 17 1.433 0.905 38.7 9.8 Com Nov 1 12 17.8 +13 03 1.452 0.967 41.5 10.2 Vir Nov 6 12 16.5 + 9 35 1.460 1.024 44.4 10.4 Vir --------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================== AstroAlert is a free service of SKY & TELESCOPE, the Essential Magazine of Astronomy (http://SkyandTelescope.com/). 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Sent: Wed= nesday, July 31, 2002 7:14 PM
To= : comet@SkyandTelescope.com
= Subject: AstroAlert: New Comet Hoenig
 
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       &= nbsp;      NEW COMET HOENIG (C/2002 O4)

A= comet discovered last week by Sebastian Hoenig from near
Heidelberg, = Germany, should become a fairly easy target
for small telescopes durin= g the next three months.
Currently magnitude 10 and crossing the Andro= meda-Cassiopeia
border, the nearly tailless object is expected to
b= righten to magnitude 9 by mid-August as it enters the
north circumpola= r sky. Thereafter it remains accessible
to Northern Hemisphere observe= rs before dawn, eventually
working its way south across the galaxy-ric= h sections of
Coma Berenices and Virgo in late October.

At the = end of this message is a day-by-day ephemeris for
telescope users. It = is based on the preliminary orbital
elements calculated by Gareth V. W= illiams and issued on
IAU Circular 7941 last night. (To subscribe to t= hat
service, visit http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html .)
Acco= rding to Williams, the comet will reach perihelion
(its closest point = to the Sun) on October 1st, when it lie
between the orbits of Venus an= d the Earth. It is traveling
in a near-parabolic orbit inclined 73 deg= rees to the plane
of the ecliptic.

With this find, Sebastian Ho= enig apparently becomes the
first amateur astronomer to discover a com= et from German
soil since June 1946, when Anton Weber in Berlin was a<= BR>codiscoverer of Comet Pajdusakova-Rotbart-Weber (C/1946
K1). Hoenig= is no stranger to comets, however; he is also
credited with locating = 20 comets in SOHO spacecraft images
of the Sun's vicinity.

Cong= ratulations, Sebastian!

It was just more than a week ago, during t= he predawn hours
of July 22nd, that Hoenig spotted what appeared to be= a
12th-magnitude glow near the Pegasus-Andromeda border with
his 1= 0-inch (25-cm) Meade LX-200 telescope. But he didn't
have a star chart= with him, for he was simply out to enjoy
the first clear night after = a week of bad weather. He
didn't even have a piece of paper on which t= o make notes
until he found an empty water bottle in his car. The
b= ottle's small white label was just large enough for him to
make a sket= ch of the bright stars in the vicinity of his
comet suspect. He estima= ted it to be moving due north
at about 3 arcminutes per hour. (To read= the discoverer's
own fascinating account, visit his Web site at
ht= tp://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~shoenig/2002o4.html ).

Even aft= er reporting the find to the Central Bureau for
Astronomical Telegrams= , Hoenig could not rest easy. Owing
to a very bright Moon and the unce= rtainty in the comet's
position, neither he nor anyone else could conf= irm the
find for another five days. Finally on July 27th, Ken-ichi
= Kadota (Saitama, Japan) secured a CCD image of the comet,
which by the= n had traveled a full 8 degrees north of
Hoenig's initial position.
The ephemeris below, calculated from Williams's preliminary
orbit= al elements, gives the comet's right ascension and
declination (equino= x 2000.0) at 0 hours Universal Time on
selected dates. Also listed are= the comet's distance from
the Earth (delta) and Sun (r) in astronomic= al units (where
1 a.u. is about 149,600,000 kilometers), its elongatio= n
angle from the Sun in degrees, predicted magnitude, and the
const= ellation though which it is passing. (If the numbers
in the columns do= n't line up properly, reset your e-mail
program to a fixed-width type = font like Courier.)


Roger W. Sinnott

Senior Editor
S= ky & Telescope


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

        &= nbsp;        Comet Hoenig (C/2002 O4)<= BR>
Date     R.A.      De= c.   Delta    r    Elong. Mag. Co= nst.
(0h UT)   h   m     o&nbs= p; '    a.u.   a.u.     o
Aug  1   23 12.5  +49 08   0.699 = 1.374  105.1  10.1  And
Aug  2   23 09.= 4  +51 13   0.690  1.360  104.3  10.0 = And
Aug  3   23 05.8  +53 21   0.681&nb= sp; 1.347  103.4  10.0  Cas
Aug  4   23 = 01.7  +55 30   0.674  1.333  102.4   9= .9  Cas
Aug  5   22 57.0  +57 40   = 0.667  1.320  101.4   9.8  Cep
Aug  6&nb= sp;  22 51.5  +59 52   0.662  1.306  100.2&= nbsp;  9.8  Cep
Aug  7   22 45.1  +62 03=    0.658  1.293   99.0   9.7  Cep=
Aug  8   22 37.6  +64 15   0.654  = 1.279   97.8   9.6  Cep
Aug  9 &nbs= p; 22 28.6  +66 24   0.652  1.266   96.5&nb= sp;  9.6  Cep
Aug 10   22 17.9  +68 32 &= nbsp; 0.651  1.252   95.1   9.5  Cep
Aug= 11   22 05.0  +70 36   0.650  1.239 &= nbsp; 93.7   9.5  Cep
Aug 12   21 49.1  = +72 35   0.651  1.226   92.2   9.5&nbs= p; Cep
Aug 13   21 29.4  +74 27   0.653 = 1.212   90.7   9.4  Cep
Aug 14   2= 1 05.0  +76 10   0.655  1.199   89.2 &= nbsp; 9.4  Cep
Aug 15   20 34.6  +77 40  = ; 0.659  1.186   87.7   9.3  Cep
Aug 16&= nbsp;  19 57.5  +78 52   0.664  1.173  = ; 86.2   9.3  Dra
Aug 17   19 13.6  +79 = 43   0.669  1.160   84.6   9.3  D= ra
Aug 18   18 25.1  +80 08   0.675  1.1= 47   83.1   9.2  Dra
Aug 19   17 35= .9  +80 06   0.682  1.134   81.5  = ; 9.2  UMi
Aug 20   16 50.2  +79 38   0.= 690  1.122   80.0   9.2  UMi
Aug 21 = ;  16 10.8  +78 50   0.698  1.109   78= .5   9.2  UMi
Aug 22   15 38.2  +77 48&n= bsp;  0.707  1.096   77.0   9.1  UMiAug 23   15 11.9  +76 35   0.717  1.084&n= bsp;  75.5   9.1  UMi
Aug 24   14 50.6&n= bsp; +75 16   0.727  1.071   74.1   9.= 1  UMi
Aug 25   14 33.5  +73 54   0.738&= nbsp; 1.059   72.7   9.1  UMi
Aug 26 &nb= sp; 14 19.4  +72 30   0.750  1.047   71.3&n= bsp;  9.1  UMi
Aug 27   14 07.7  +71 06 =   0.762  1.035   69.9   9.1  UMi
Au= g 28   13 58.0  +69 42   0.774  1.023 =   68.5   9.0  UMi
Aug 29   13 49.7 = +68 19   0.786  1.012   67.2   9.0&nb= sp; Dra
Aug 30   13 42.6  +66 57   0.799 = ; 1.000   65.9   9.0  Dra
Aug 31   = 13 36.4  +65 37   0.813  0.989   64.7 =   9.0  Dra

Sep  1   13 31.0  +64 19&= nbsp;  0.826  0.978   63.4   9.0  Dra<= BR>Sep  2   13 26.3  +63 02   0.840  0= .967   62.2   9.0  UMa
Sep  3  = ; 13 22.0  +61 48   0.854  0.956   61.1&nbs= p;  9.0  UMa
Sep  4   13 18.2  +60 35&nb= sp;  0.868  0.945   59.9   8.9  UMaSep  5   13 14.8  +59 24   0.883  0.9= 35   58.8   8.9  UMa
Sep  6   = 13 11.7  +58 15   0.897  0.925   57.7 =   8.9  UMa
Sep  7   13 08.8  +57 08 = ;  0.912  0.915   56.6   8.9  UMa
S= ep  8   13 06.2  +56 02   0.926  0.905=    55.6   8.9  UMa
Sep  9   13= 03.8  +54 58   0.941  0.896   54.6 &n= bsp; 8.9  UMa
Sep 10   13 01.5  +53 56  = 0.956  0.886   53.6   8.9  UMa
Sep 11&n= bsp;  12 59.4  +52 55   0.971  0.877  = 52.6   8.9  UMa
Sep 12   12 57.4  +51 5= 5   0.985  0.869   51.7   8.9  CV= n
Sep 13   12 55.6  +50 56   1.000  0.86= 1   50.8   8.8  CVn
Sep 14   12 53.= 8  +49 59   1.015  0.853   49.9  = 8.8  CVn
Sep 15   12 52.1  +49 03   1.0= 29  0.845   49.1   8.8  CVn
Sep 16 =   12 50.6  +48 08   1.044  0.838   48.= 2   8.8  CVn
Sep 17   12 49.1  +47 14&nb= sp;  1.058  0.831   47.4   8.8  CVnSep 18   12 47.6  +46 21   1.073  0.824&nb= sp;  46.6   8.8  CVn
Sep 19   12 46.2&nb= sp; +45 28   1.087  0.818   45.9   8.8=   CVn
Sep 20   12 44.9  +44 37   1.101&n= bsp; 0.813   45.1   8.8  CVn
Sep 21 &nbs= p; 12 43.6  +43 46   1.115  0.807   44.4&nb= sp;  8.8  CVn
Sep 22   12 42.4  +42 55 &= nbsp; 1.129  0.802   43.7   8.8  CVn
Sep= 23   12 41.2  +42 06   1.142  0.798 &= nbsp; 43.1   8.8  CVn
Sep 24   12 40.1  = +41 17   1.156  0.794   42.4   8.8&nbs= p; CVn
Sep 25   12 39.0  +40 28   1.169 = 0.790   41.8   8.8  CVn
Sep 26   1= 2 38.0  +39 40   1.182  0.787   41.2 &= nbsp; 8.8  CVn
Sep 27   12 36.9  +38 52  = ; 1.194  0.785   40.7   8.8  CVn
Sep 28&= nbsp;  12 36.0  +38 05   1.207  0.782  = ; 40.2   8.8  CVn
Sep 29   12 35.0  +37 = 18   1.219  0.781   39.7   8.9  C= Vn
Sep 30   12 34.1  +36 31   1.231  0.7= 79   39.2   8.9  CVn

Oct  1 &nb= sp; 12 33.2  +35 44   1.242  0.779   38.8&n= bsp;  8.9  CVn
Oct  6   12 29.3  +31 55&= nbsp;  1.296  0.782   37.1   9.0  CVn<= BR>Oct 11   12 26.0  +28 11   1.342  0.798&= nbsp;  36.2   9.2  Com
Oct 16   12 23.4&= nbsp; +24 30   1.380  0.825   36.3   9= .4  Com
Oct 21   12 21.2  +20 52   1.410=   0.861   37.1   9.6  Com
Oct 26 &n= bsp; 12 19.5  +17 17   1.433  0.905   38.7&= nbsp;  9.8  Com
Nov  1   12 17.8  +13 03=    1.452  0.967   41.5  10.2  Vir
N= ov  6   12 16.5  + 9 35   1.460  1.024=    44.4  10.4  Vir

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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2395B.1FF2D3D0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 11:44:05 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71Ii42D000571 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA01395 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:30:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe95.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.237]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01391 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:30:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:29:33 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Press Release 14/02: Observations of Brown Dwarfs Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:29:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23967.D4DEEF70" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 18:29:33.0109 (UTC) FILETIME=[61A1C650:01C23989] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23967.D4DEEF70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: esonews@eso.org Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:10 AM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Press Release 14/02: Observations of Brown Dwarfs Dear subscribers, We have today published ESO Press Release 14/02 (with two photos) about observations of eight Brown Dwarfs, i.e., small and faint objects also known as "failed stars", with the TIMMI2 instrument at the 3.6-m telescope on La Silla. >From two of these, mid-infrared radiation is detected - for the first time ever from such objects with a ground-based telescope. While the younger Brown Dwarf, aged a few million years, is found to be surrounded by a dusty disk, no warm dust is present around the older ones. These observations support the hypothesis that Brown Dwarfs are born in the same way as "real" stars, by contraction in interstellar clouds of gas and dust. You will find the text and the photos at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/pr-14-02.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 . ------- ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23967.D4DEEF70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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From two of these, = mid-infrared radiation is detected - for the first
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23967.D4DEEF70-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 11:53:47 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71Irk2D029044 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA01457 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:41:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe81.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.223]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01452 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:40:31 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Asteroid 2002 NT7: No Longer An Impact Risk Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:40:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23969.5D948900" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 18:40:31.0846 (UTC) FILETIME=[EA451060:01C2398A] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23969.5D948900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:07 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Asteroid 2002 NT7: No Longer An Impact Risk Asteroid 2002 NT7 Removed from IMPACT RISKS page Don Yeomans Manager, Near-Earth Object Program Jet Propulsion Laboratory August 1, 2002 Recent positional observations of asteroid 2002 NT7 have been used to update and improve this object's orbit and as a result, all possibilities for an Earth impact in the next 100 years have been eliminated. This object's orbit, along with the orbits of all near-Earth objects, will be improved continuously as additional observations become available. When the orbital information is sufficiently accurate, the future orbital extrapolations of these near-Earth objects will be carried out for more than 100 years. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23969.5D948900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Asteroid 2002 NT7 Removed from IMPACT RISKS page
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Recent positional observations of asteroid 2002 N= T7 have been used to
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extrapolations of these = near-Earth objects will be carried out for more
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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23969.5D948900-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 12:12:54 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71JCr2D021407 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01527 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:00:26 -0400 (EDT) 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 PAA01523 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:59:52 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: 60 Million-Year-Old Crater Mapped In North Sea Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:59:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2396C.0E51AC80" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 18:59:52.0259 (UTC) FILETIME=[9DEE0930:01C2398D] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2396C.0E51AC80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 2:07 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: 60 Million-Year-Old Crater Mapped In North Sea http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_641050.html 60m-year-old meteor crater mapped in North Sea Ananova July 31, 2002 Scientists have mapped a small but well-preserved crater in the North Sea formed by a meteorite they believe smacked into Earth 60 to 65 million years ago. The impact crater measures about six miles wide and sits beneath 120 feet of seawater and more than 900 feet of sediment. Researchers believe the so-called Silverpit crater was formed after the catastrophic impact near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula that scientists suspect contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. "We know so little about how impact structures are created when meteorites and comets hit," said University of New Brunswick geologist John G. Spray, who reviewed the crater data for the journal Nature, which published details in its current issue. "Any new example helps." Full story here: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_641050.html ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2396C.0E51AC80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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6= 0m-year-old meteor crater mapped in North Sea
Ananova
July 31, 2002=

Scientists have mapped a small but well-preserved crater in the N= orth
Sea formed by a meteorite they believe smacked into Earth 60 to 6= 5
million years ago.

The impact crater measures about six miles= wide and sits beneath 120
feet of seawater and more than 900 feet of = sediment.

Researchers believe the so-called Silverpit crater was f= ormed after the
catastrophic impact near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula th= at scientists
suspect contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.<= BR>
"We know so little about how impact structures are created whenmeteorites and comets hit," said University of New Brunswick geologistJohn G. Spray, who reviewed the crater data for the journal Nature,
= which published details in its current issue. "Any new example helps."
Full story here:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_641050.= html
------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2396C.0E51AC80-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 12:20:08 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71JK72D011312 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01573 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:08:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe15.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.95]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01564; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:07:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:07:24 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: More information on interstellar craft studies Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:07:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0008_01C2396D.1E3BA8C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 19:07:24.0165 (UTC) FILETIME=[AB496B50:01C2398E] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C2396D.1E3BA8C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For those who want to pursue even more information on interstellar craft, check out these papers at this URL: http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/ Larry ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C2396D.1E3BA8C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
For those who = want to pursue even more information on
interstellar craft, ch= eck out these papers at this URL:

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------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C2396D.1E3BA8C0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 12:48:49 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71Jmm2D031866 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01675 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:35:32 -0400 (EDT) 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 PAA01671 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:34:54 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status Report on Red Planet Plans Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:34:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23970.EFB656E0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 19:34:54.0757 (UTC) FILETIME=[831DC550:01C23992] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23970.EFB656E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:05 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status Report on Red = Planet Plans http://www.space.com/news/mars_czar_020730.html Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status Report on Red Planet Pl= ans By Leonard David space.com 30 July 2002 NASA is shaping plans for the next decade to dot Mars with highly capable robotic craft, including a probe that rockets back to Earth samples of Martian terrain. Recent exploratory talks between NASA and Russian scientists may also lea= d to joint experiments using Mars penetrators and other devices to expand exploration of the red planet. Space agency Mars planners, however, currently face a cloudy financial picture beyond 2009. But building on the output of data gleaned by spacecraft already at Mars will demand fresh funds. In an exclusive SPACE.com interview, NASA's "Mars Czar", Orlando Figueroa= , Director of the Mars Exploration Office at NASA Headquarters in Washingto= n, D.C., discussed the challenges ahead. Scooping up samples For decades, NASA's wish list of Mars robotic probes included picking up Martian samples and lobbing the precious cargo back to Earth for detailed study. For decades, pulling off such a mission has come with an astronomi= cal asking price - in the billion dollars plus range. That pushes it into the flagship mission category. "It's a very complex and difficult mission, with a price tag to go along with it," Figueroa said. In essence, the mission is three missions in one= , he said, and requires a complex set of technologies. Now being studied is a "simplified" Mars return sample mission, focused o= n the minimum requirements to bring a sample back to Earth. "We don't want = to load an already complex mission with other complexities," Figueroa said. Grab bag or selected specimens? A Mars return sample would not be a one-shot affair. Space science advisory groups have told NASA that multiple sites must be visited. From three to ten sites should be targeted is one recommendation= . "I happen to think that the upper-end of that is out of the question. Eve= n three would be very difficult to do, unless we go one decade at a time," Figueroa noted. Another issue is a "grab" sample from Mars versus a carefully selected specimen. Some scientists say any bits and pieces from Mars will do. Othe= rs contend great care should be taken in picking the best of the best. "On the first mission, to make it affordable within the guidelines I'm working to, we need to stick to gathering samples from the vicinity of wh= ere you land. That's opposed to using a sophisticated rover to do sample selection - looking for and carefully selecting samples to bring back to = a lander. Mobility is a huge issue that adds a significant amount of cost. = The first mission tends to be 'simpler'," Figueroa explained. Practice run on the Moon A recent National Research Council (NRC) report has advocated that NASA carry out a lunar return sample effort. That probe would touch down withi= n the Aitkin Basin at the Moon's South Pole. While good for science, the NRC report stressed that lunar sample acquisition, handling, and return technologies would also help on the comparable Mars sample project. "Some of the technologies required, not only for sample return but also f= or our Smart Mars Lander in 2009, would be applicable to such a [lunar] mission. Having said that, I am not sure I'm ready to jump - that the [lu= nar] mission in itself would be a good technology demonstration. I haven't beg= un to explore that," Figueroa said. U.S.-Russian collaboration Russian involvement in NASA's future Mars plans are on the table, Figuero= a said. He recently traveled to Russia, a follow up to talks held last summ= er. "We're working with their scientists to see if we can reach a better commonality in our strategic plans," Figueroa said. While NASA's step-by-step Mars effort is largely scripted, "it was our perception this isn't quite the case on the Russian side," he added. Russian space scientists are hungry to carry out a sample return mission from Phobos - one of two Martian moons. "Frankly, that's not a high prior= ity for the U.S. science community," Figueroa said. Now being eyed are specially built Russian Mars surface penetrators. This gear would punch into the Martian surface at high velocity. The equipment could be upgraded and outfitted with both U.S. and Russian science experiments, Figueroa said. Another item is flying a next-generation neut= ron spectrometer to Mars, a sensor that would actually be carried to the Mart= ian surface. Working close to Mars topside, the apparatus would survey for strong signals of water, he said. "Those are a couple of examples that both U.S. and Russian scientists hav= e a great interest in - but how we plug them into longer-term collaboration, = it's still a little bit early to tell," Figueroa said. Scouting season NASA is set to receive on August 1 proposals for the Scout program - a ho= ped for series of low-cost, focused Mars spacecraft. The first Scout mission = to fly is targeted for 2007. NASA's hope is to establish a long-running Scou= t program. These novel research craft can pepper Mars on a regular basis we= ll into next decade. Scout-class probes can address the recent discovery that Mars appears loa= ded with subsurface water ice. "I'm sure there are some investigators out there who want to target those [water ice] sites for investigation," Figueroa said. Scout probes that better characterize the water ice on Mars, Figueroa add= ed, might become a high priority, although the program is a fully open and competed process. All sorts of craft, from Mars gliders to subsurface pro= bes are conceivable candidate missions. Onward to 2009, but then what? Next year, NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers are to head for the red planet. Teams at Jet Propulsion Laboratory are in full swing, readying th= e two rovers for liftoff in 2003. Also underway is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This 2005 spacecraft wi= ll zoom lens Mars, yielding high-resolution images of select terrain. A major effort has begun to develop a Mars Smart Lander for a 2009 sendof= f. "There's been a tendency to just view the Mars Smart Lander as a technolo= gy demonstration. Indeed, it requires many of the technologies needed for sample return. But in truth, this mission is an incredibly powerful scientific mission in its own right," Figueroa said. Looking beyond the Mars horizon of 2009, NASA falls into a "to be determined" dream state. Humans on Mars - safety first The White House budget masters have removed all monies for Mars planning beyond the Mars Smart Lander project. "Now it's a matter of arguing for reestablishing that wedge," Figueroa sa= id. Scripting a credible and affordable next decade of Mars exploration is underway, he said. When will humans plant their feet on Martian sands? Figueroa said that technology and human safety issues must first be tackled. "Before we embark on human exploration - there are scientific questions a= s to the safety of crews on the surface. We need to know more about the properties of the dust and the Mars environment. Within the present robot= ic program we can probably accommodate those scientific questions," Figueroa said. "As for the other technologies that lead you into a serious human exploration mission, we are only starting to address those. I wouldn't ev= en guess when we would start on those," Figueroa said. ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23970.EFB656E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:05 PM
T= o: undisclosed-recipients:;
= Subject: Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status Report on = Red Planet Plans
 

http://www.space.com/news/mar= s_czar_020730.html

Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Stat= us Report on Red Planet Plans
By Leonard David
space.com
30 July= 2002

NASA is shaping plans for the next decade to dot Mars with h= ighly capable
robotic craft, including a probe that rockets back to Ea= rth samples of
Martian terrain.

Recent exploratory talks betwee= n NASA and Russian scientists may also lead
to joint experiments using= Mars penetrators and other devices to expand
exploration of the red p= lanet.

Space agency Mars planners, however, currently face a cloud= y financial
picture beyond 2009. But building on the output of data gl= eaned by
spacecraft already at Mars will demand fresh funds.

In= an exclusive SPACE.com interview, NASA's "Mars Czar", Orlando Figueroa,<= BR>Director of the Mars Exploration Office at NASA Headquarters in Washin= gton,
D.C., discussed the challenges ahead.

Scooping up samples=

For decades, NASA's wish list of Mars robotic probes included pic= king up
Martian samples and lobbing the precious cargo back to Earth f= or detailed
study. For decades, pulling off such a mission has come wi= th an astronomical
asking price - in the billion dollars plus range. T= hat pushes it into the
flagship mission category.

"It's a very = complex and difficult mission, with a price tag to go along
with it," = Figueroa said. In essence, the mission is three missions in one,
he sa= id, and requires a complex set of technologies.

Now being studied = is a "simplified" Mars return sample mission, focused on
the minimum r= equirements to bring a sample back to Earth. "We don't want to
load an= already complex mission with other complexities," Figueroa said.

= Grab bag or selected specimens?

A Mars return sample would not be = a one-shot affair.

Space science advisory groups have told NASA th= at multiple sites must be
visited. From three to ten sites should be t= argeted is one recommendation.

"I happen to think that the upper-e= nd of that is out of the question. Even
three would be very difficult = to do, unless we go one decade at a time,"
Figueroa noted.

Anot= her issue is a "grab" sample from Mars versus a carefully selected
spe= cimen. Some scientists say any bits and pieces from Mars will do. Others<= BR>contend great care should be taken in picking the best of the best.
"On the first mission, to make it affordable within the guidelines I= 'm
working to, we need to stick to gathering samples from the vicinity= of where
you land. That's opposed to using a sophisticated rover to d= o sample
selection - looking for and carefully selecting samples to br= ing back to a
lander. Mobility is a huge issue that adds a significant= amount of cost. The
first mission tends to be 'simpler'," Figueroa ex= plained.

Practice run on the Moon

A recent National Researc= h Council (NRC) report has advocated that NASA
carry out a lunar retur= n sample effort. That probe would touch down within
the Aitkin Basin a= t the Moon's South Pole.

While good for science, the NRC report st= ressed that lunar sample
acquisition, handling, and return technologie= s would also help on the
comparable Mars sample project.

"Some = of the technologies required, not only for sample return but also for
= our Smart Mars Lander in 2009, would be applicable to such a [lunar]
m= ission. Having said that, I am not sure I'm ready to jump - that the [lun= ar]
mission in itself would be a good technology demonstration. I have= n't begun
to explore that," Figueroa said.

U.S.-Russian collabo= ration

Russian involvement in NASA's future Mars plans are on the = table, Figueroa
said. He recently traveled to Russia, a follow up to t= alks held last summer.

"We're working with their scientists to see= if we can reach a better
commonality in our strategic plans," Figuero= a said. While NASA's
step-by-step Mars effort is largely scripted, "it= was our perception this
isn't quite the case on the Russian side," he= added.

Russian space scientists are hungry to carry out a sample = return mission
from Phobos - one of two Martian moons. "Frankly, that'= s not a high priority
for the U.S. science community," Figueroa said.<= BR>
Now being eyed are specially built Russian Mars surface penetrator= s. This
gear would punch into the Martian surface at high velocity. Th= e equipment
could be upgraded and outfitted with both U.S. and Russian= science
experiments, Figueroa said. Another item is flying a next-gen= eration neutron
spectrometer to Mars, a sensor that would actually be = carried to the Martian
surface. Working close to Mars topside, the app= aratus would survey for
strong signals of water, he said.

"Thos= e are a couple of examples that both U.S. and Russian scientists have agreat interest in - but how we plug them into longer-term collaboration= , it's
still a little bit early to tell," Figueroa said.

Scouti= ng season

NASA is set to receive on August 1 proposals for the Sco= ut program - a hoped
for series of low-cost, focused Mars spacecraft. = The first Scout mission to
fly is targeted for 2007. NASA's hope is to= establish a long-running Scout
program. These novel research craft ca= n pepper Mars on a regular basis well
into next decade.

Scout-c= lass probes can address the recent discovery that Mars appears loaded
= with subsurface water ice.

"I'm sure there are some investigators = out there who want to target those
[water ice] sites for investigation= ," Figueroa said.

Scout probes that better characterize the water = ice on Mars, Figueroa added,
might become a high priority, although th= e program is a fully open and
competed process. All sorts of craft, fr= om Mars gliders to subsurface probes
are conceivable candidate mission= s.

Onward to 2009, but then what?

Next year, NASA's twin Ma= rs Exploration Rovers are to head for the red
planet. Teams at Jet Pro= pulsion Laboratory are in full swing, readying the
two rovers for lift= off in 2003.

Also underway is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Thi= s 2005 spacecraft will
zoom lens Mars, yielding high-resolution images= of select terrain.

A major effort has begun to develop a Mars Sma= rt Lander for a 2009 sendoff.

"There's been a tendency to just vie= w the Mars Smart Lander as a technology
demonstration. Indeed, it requ= ires many of the technologies needed for
sample return. But in truth, = this mission is an incredibly powerful
scientific mission in its own r= ight," Figueroa said.

Looking beyond the Mars horizon of 2009, NAS= A falls into a "to be
determined" dream state.

Humans on Mars -= safety first

The White House budget masters have removed all moni= es for Mars planning
beyond the Mars Smart Lander project.

"Now= it's a matter of arguing for reestablishing that wedge," Figueroa said.<= BR>Scripting a credible and affordable next decade of Mars exploration is=
underway, he said.

When will humans plant their feet on Martia= n sands? Figueroa said that
technology and human safety issues must fi= rst be tackled.

"Before we embark on human exploration - there are= scientific questions as to
the safety of crews on the surface. We nee= d to know more about the
properties of the dust and the Mars environme= nt. Within the present robotic
program we can probably accommodate tho= se scientific questions," Figueroa
said.

"As for the other tech= nologies that lead you into a serious human
exploration mission, we ar= e only starting to address those. I wouldn't even
guess when we would = start on those," Figueroa said.
------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23970.EFB656E0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 12:58:21 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71JwK2D006623 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01711 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:46:01 -0400 (EDT) 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 PAA01707 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:45:27 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Look At That Asteroid (2002 NY40) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:45:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23972.6B54F4E0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 19:45:27.0742 (UTC) FILETIME=[FC679DE0:01C23993] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23972.6B54F4E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:34 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Look At That Asteroid (2002 NY40) http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/30jul_ny40.htm Look at that Asteroid NASA Space Science A big space rock will soon come so close to Earth that sky watchers can s= ee it through binoculars. July 30, 2002: Relax, there's no danger of a collision, but it will be cl= ose enough to see through binoculars: a big space rock, not far from Earth. Astronomers discovered the nearby asteroid, named 2002 NY40--not to be confused with better-known 2002 NT7--on July 14th. It measures about 800 meters across, and follows an orbit that ranges from the asteroid belt to the inner solar system. On August 18th, the asteroid will glide past our planet only 1.3 times farther away than the Moon. "Flybys like this happen every 50 years or so," says Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program office at JPL. The last time (that we know of) was August 31, 1925, when another 800-meter asteroid passed by just outside the Moon's orbit. In those days there were no dedicated asteroid hunters--the object, 2001 CU11, wasn't discovered unti= l 77 years later. At the time of the flyby, no one even knew it was happeni= ng. 2002 NY40 is different. We know the asteroid is coming, and astronomers h= ave time to prepare. One team of observers led by Mike Nolan at the giant Arecibo radar in Pue= rto Rico will "ping" 2002 NY40 with radio waves as it approaches Earth. Such data result in impressive 3D maps of asteroids, which have often surprise= d astronomers with their weird shapes. Some prove to be binary systems (one space rock orbiting another) and one even looks like a dog bone. "Radar data will also improve our knowledge of the asteroid's orbit," add= s Jon Giorgini, a member of the radar team from JPL. "At present, we know there's little risk of a collision with 2002 NY40 for decades. When the Arecibo radar measurements are done, the orbit uncertainties should shrin= k by more than a factor of 200. We'll be able to extrapolate the asteroid's motion hundreds of years into the past and into the future, too." 2002 NY40 is faint now. It shines by reflected sunlight like a 17th magnitude star. As it nears Earth, however, the space rock will brighten, soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's about 16 times dimmer tha= n the dimmest star you can see without a telescope. But as asteroids go, it= 's very bright. "Asteroids are hard to see," explains Yeomans, "because they're mostly bl= ack like charcoal. The most common ones--carbon-rich C-type asteroids--reflec= t only 3% to 5% of the light that hits them. Metallic asteroids, which are somewhat rare, reflect more: 10% to 15%." "We don't know yet what this asteroid is made of," he continued, "but we'= ll have a much better idea by the end of August." Astronomers using ground-based telescopes will have little trouble recording the asteroid's spectrum and thus its composition. On the date of closest approach, the asteroid will sail past Vega, the brightest star in the evening summer sky. Sky watchers with powerful binoculars or small telescopes can see it--a speck of light moving 8 degr= ees per hour. (Note: The flyby will be visible mostly from Earth's northern hemisphere; this is not a good opportunity for southern sky watchers. Nor= th Americans can see it best after sunset on Aug. 17th; Europeans should loo= k during the hours before dawn on Aug. 18th.) Something extraordinary will happen hours after 2002 NY40 passes Earth: t= he space rock will quickly fade. Asteroids, like moons and planets, have phases. The sunlit side of 2002 N= Y40 is facing Earth now. It's full, like a full Moon. On August 18th, the asteroid will cross Earth's orbit on its way toward the Sun. Then the pha= se of the asteroid will change--from full to gibbous to half.... finally the night side will turn to face Earth. The asteroid will grow dark, like a n= ew Moon. It's not every day you can peer through binoculars and see a near-Earth asteroid--and then see it disappear. But 2002 NY40 has a lot to offer. "Mother Nature is making it very easy for us to study this one," says Yeomans. That's good because "we need to know more about near-Earth asteroids in case we ever need to destroy or deflect one." What are they made of? How are asteroids put together? These are key questions that 200= 2 NY40 will help answer. "Don't forget," adds Yeomans, "most asteroids pose no threat to Earth. Bu= t they do contain valuable metals, minerals and even water that we might ta= p in the future." When such asteroids come close (but not too close!) we ha= ve relatively easy access to them--both to study and, one day perhaps, to visit. Or, to paraphrase Nietzsche, asteroids (like 2002 NY40) that do not hit u= s, make us stronger. For more information about 2002 NY40, including an up-to-date ephemeris f= or sky watchers, please visit JPL's Near-Earth Object Program web site: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov 3D Orbit Simulation: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=3D2002+NY40 Ephemeris: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph?sstr=3D101262&group=3Dall&s_sb=3DSear= ch&c_loc=3D500%3BGeocentric%3B0.%2C0.%2C0.%2Cm&c_time=3D%2B20020730000000= .000%2C%2B20020814000000.000%2C0%2C1%2Cd%2C%2CC&c_quan=3D0108c0101%2CJHA%= 2C%2C0 ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23972.6B54F4E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:34 PM
= To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Look At That Asteroid (2002 NY40)
 
ht= tp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/30jul_ny40.htm

Look at that = Asteroid
NASA Space Science

A big space rock will soon come so = close to Earth that sky watchers can see
it through binoculars.
July 30, 2002: Relax, there's no danger of a collision, but it will be c= lose
enough to see through binoculars: a big space rock, not far from = Earth.

Astronomers discovered the nearby asteroid, named 2002 NY40= --not to be
confused with better-known 2002 NT7--on July 14th. It meas= ures about 800
meters across, and follows an orbit that ranges from th= e asteroid belt to
the inner solar system. On August 18th, the asteroi= d will glide past our
planet only 1.3 times farther away than the Moon= .

"Flybys like this happen every 50 years or so," says Don Yeomans= , the
manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program office at JPL. The l= ast time
(that we know of) was August 31, 1925, when another 800-meter= asteroid
passed by just outside the Moon's orbit. In those days there= were no
dedicated asteroid hunters--the object, 2001 CU11, wasn't dis= covered until
77 years later. At the time of the flyby, no one even kn= ew it was happening.

2002 NY40 is different. We know the asteroid = is coming, and astronomers have
time to prepare.

One team of ob= servers led by Mike Nolan at the giant Arecibo radar in Puerto
Rico wi= ll "ping" 2002 NY40 with radio waves as it approaches Earth. Such
data= result in impressive 3D maps of asteroids, which have often surprisedastronomers with their weird shapes. Some prove to be binary systems (on= e
space rock orbiting another) and one even looks like a dog bone.
=
"Radar data will also improve our knowledge of the asteroid's orbit,"= adds
Jon Giorgini, a member of the radar team from JPL. "At present, = we know
there's little risk of a collision with 2002 NY40 for decades.= When the
Arecibo radar measurements are done, the orbit uncertainties= should shrink
by more than a factor of 200. We'll be able to extrapol= ate the asteroid's
motion hundreds of years into the past and into the= future, too."

2002 NY40 is faint now. It shines by reflected sunl= ight like a 17th
magnitude star. As it nears Earth, however, the space= rock will brighten,
soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's a= bout 16 times dimmer than
the dimmest star you can see without a teles= cope. But as asteroids go, it's
very bright.

"Asteroids are har= d to see," explains Yeomans, "because they're mostly black
like charco= al. The most common ones--carbon-rich C-type asteroids--reflect
only 3= % to 5% of the light that hits them. Metallic asteroids, which are
som= ewhat rare, reflect more: 10% to 15%."

"We don't know yet what thi= s asteroid is made of," he continued, "but we'll
have a much better id= ea by the end of August." Astronomers using
ground-based telescopes wi= ll have little trouble recording the asteroid's
spectrum and thus its = composition.

On the date of closest approach, the asteroid will sa= il past Vega, the
brightest star in the evening summer sky. Sky watche= rs with powerful
binoculars or small telescopes can see it--a speck of= light moving 8 degrees
per hour. (Note: The flyby will be visible mos= tly from Earth's northern
hemisphere; this is not a good opportunity f= or southern sky watchers. North
Americans can see it best after sunset= on Aug. 17th; Europeans should look
during the hours before dawn on A= ug. 18th.)

Something extraordinary will happen hours after 2002 NY= 40 passes Earth: the
space rock will quickly fade.

Asteroids, l= ike moons and planets, have phases. The sunlit side of 2002 NY40
is fa= cing Earth now. It's full, like a full Moon. On August 18th, the
aster= oid will cross Earth's orbit on its way toward the Sun. Then the phaseof the asteroid will change--from full to gibbous to half.... finally th= e
night side will turn to face Earth. The asteroid will grow dark, lik= e a new
Moon.

It's not every day you can peer through binocular= s and see a near-Earth
asteroid--and then see it disappear. But 2002 N= Y40 has a lot to offer.

"Mother Nature is making it very easy for = us to study this one," says
Yeomans. That's good because "we need to k= now more about near-Earth
asteroids in case we ever need to destroy or= deflect one." What are they
made of? How are asteroids put together? = These are key questions that 2002
NY40 will help answer.

"Don't= forget," adds Yeomans, "most asteroids pose no threat to Earth. But
t= hey do contain valuable metals, minerals and even water that we might tap=
in the future." When such asteroids come close (but not too close!) w= e have
relatively easy access to them--both to study and, one day perh= aps, to
visit.

Or, to paraphrase Nietzsche, asteroids (like 200= 2 NY40) that do not hit us,
make us stronger.

For more informat= ion about 2002 NY40, including an up-to-date ephemeris for
sky watcher= s, please visit JPL's Near-Earth Object Program web site:

http://n= eo.jpl.nasa.gov

3D Orbit Simulation:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cg= i-bin/db?name=3D2002+NY40

Ephemeris:
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------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23972.6B54F4E0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 13:09:42 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71K9e2D000980 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01755 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:56:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe70.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.212]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01750 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:55:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:55:55 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Physics News Update 600 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:55:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23973.E33EA130" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 19:55:55.0312 (UTC) FILETIME=[72773300:01C23995] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23973.E33EA130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: physnews@aip.org Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:55 PM To: ljk4@MSN.COM Subject: Physics News Update 600 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 600 August 1, 2002 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James R= iordon HIGH PRECISION TESTS OF THE STANDARD MODEL have been reported this past w= eek in two areas: CP-violation in B mesons (experiments at the KEK lab in= Japan and the SLAC lab in California) and the magnetic moment of the muo= n (an experiment at the Brookhaven lab in New York). The standard model,= trying to explain the forces of nature through the exchange of particles= , consists of the electroweak framework (force exchanged by photons and b= y Z and W bosons) plus the quantum chromodynamic (QCD) framework for quar= ks (force exchanged by gluons). The model has been highly successful in = accounting for the behavior of electrons in atoms (in the case of some tr= ansition frequencies, theory and experiment agree at the parts-per-trilli= on level or better) and does a good job of predicting other phenomena as = well, such as CP violation. The model does not include, but can accommod= ate, neutrino oscillation. Extensions of the standard model, such as sup= erstring theory--which pictures all matter as consisting of tiny strings = or membranes--can (unlike the standard model) account for the force of gr= avity, the existence of extra spatial dimensions, and the proposition (kn= own as supersymmetry, or SUSY) that all fermion particles have boson coun= terparts and vice versa. SUSY is by now an acceptable idea for many part= icle physicists but it would necessitate an overhaul of the standard mode= l since the existence of superparticles would entail a whole new force, o= ne which transforms fermions into bosons and back again. This force, in = turn, would be transmitted via a hypothetical "leptoquark" particle. The new CP violation tests were reported at the International Confer= ence on High Energy Physics in Amsterdam. Both the Belle detector group = at KEK and the BaBar detector group at SLAC observed subtleties in the de= cays of B mesons and measured a parameter called sine two beta. The valu= e measured for both groups, with much better precision than ever before, = is approaching the value predicted by the standard model, thus erasing pa= st discrepancies. (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/media-info/20020723/= sine2b.html) Meanwhile, at Brookhaven the g-2 collaboration seeks to observe a de= parture of the muon's magnetic moment (related to the muon's spin by the= g parameter) from 2, the value it would have in the absence of interacti= ons between the muon and virtual particles in the universal vacuum, inclu= ding possible exotica outside the standard model such as the supersymmetr= ic entities. Although the SUSY particles are rare and unstable their mer= e existence in the vacuum would modify observable quantities such as the = muon magnetic moment. Thus a measurement of the magnetic moment, by watc= hing muons decay even as they wobble about in a strong magnetic field, wo= uld give indirect evidence for the extra particles. Moderate evidence in= this direction was previously reported by the g-2 team; the new results,= reported also in Amsterdam (and submitted to Physical Review Letters), f= ollow suit but with twice the precision of the last report. (http://www.b= nl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr073002.htm) NEW COSMOLOGICAL UPPER LIMIT ON NEUTRINO MASS. Neutrino news has been = dramatic these past few years: neutrinos have been shown to oscillate fro= m one type to another (http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1998/split/pnu37= 5-1.htm) and the solar neutrino problem has been resolved (www.aip.org/e= news/physnews/2002/split/586-1.html) after puzzling solar physicists for = decades. These results imply that at least one or more of the neutrino f= lavors (electron, mu, tau) have some mass and this, considering the numbe= r of nu's loose in the universe, means that even lightweight neutrinos wi= ll have had a palpable role in influencing the development of galaxies. = But how much nu mass is there and how big a role did nu's play? Particle= physics experiments so far directly establish only values for the square= of neutrino mass differences. From tritium decay experiments comes an u= pper limit of 2.2 eV for the electron neutrino. Upper limits for the mu = or tau neutrinos are up in the MeV range. The new mass limits come from looking at the distribution of galaxies= across the canopy of the sky. The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey has scanne= d 250,000 galaxies (viewed 400 at a time with a telescope in Siding Sprin= g Mountain, Australia). The galactic coordinates can be compared two at = a time, providing a plot of the number of galaxies versus inter-galaxy di= stance. Turned into a galactic "power spectrum," this correlation study = can be used to estimate the likely density of the constituent species of = matter in the universe: baryons (such as protons), cold dark matter (WIMP= s), and hot dark matter (neutrinos are the leading candidate). The 2dF w= ork arrives at two big neutrino conclusions. (1) Neutrinos can account f= or no more than 13% of the matter in the universe and (2) the sum of all = the nu masses (electron plus mu plus tau) is no more than 2.2 eV. Group = member Oystein Elgaroy (University of Cambridge, elgaroy@ast.cam.ac.uk, 4= 4-1223-75 x17) says that this is the best upper limit for neutrino mass d= erived with relatively conservative assumptions on the total matter densi= ty in the universe. (Elgaroy et al., Physical Review Letters, 5 August 2= 002; also see Physical Review Focus, 12 July, focus.aps.org/) A NEW WAY OF MEASURING COMPLEXITY for biological systems has been propose= d by researchers at Harvard Medical School and University of Lisbon (cont= act Madalena Costa, 617-667-2428, madalena@mimic.bidmc.harvard.edu , Ary = L. Goldberger, 617-667-4267, agoldber@caregroup.harvard.edu and C.-K. Pen= g, 617-667-7122, peng@physionet.org). Their method suggests that disease = and aging can be quantified in terms of information loss. In the resear= chers' view, a biological organism's complexity is intimately related to = its adaptability (e.g., can it survive hostile environments on its own?) = and its functionality (e.g., can it do higher math?). In this view, dise= ase and aging reduce an organism's complexity, thereby making it less ada= ptive and more vulnerable to catastrophic events. But traditional yardsticks sometimes contradict this "complexity-loss= " theory of disease and aging. Such conventional metrics, originally dev= eloped for information science, quantify complexity by determining how mu= ch new information a system can generate. By traditional measures, a dise= ased heart with a highly erratic rhythm like atrial fibrillation is more = complex than a healthy one. That's because a diseased heart can generate= completely random variations ("white noise") in its heart rate. These r= andom variations continually produce "new" information, i.e., information= that cannot be predicted from the heart's past history. On the other ha= nd, a healthy heart displays a less-random pattern known as 1/f noise (se= e Update 90). The problem, according to the researchers, is that conventional measur= es of complexity ignore multiple time scales. To address the inherent m= ulti-scale nature of biological organisms, the researchers developed a ne= w "multi-scale entropy" (MSE) tool for calculating biological complexity.= Their technique works like this: Take a heart rate time series of about = 30,000 beats. Then split it into coarse-grained chunks of 20 heartbeats e= ach and compute the average heart rate in each chunk. Then measure the he= art rate's unpredictability (its variations from chunk to chunk). More un= predictability means more new information, and greater complexity. Repea= t this complexity calculation numerous times for different-sized chunks, = from 1-19 heartbeats. Such a technique can reveal the complex arrangemen= t of information over different time scales. Applied to heartbeat interv= als in healthy young and elderly subjects, patients with severe congestiv= e heart failure, and patients with atrial fibrillation, the MSE algorithm= consistently gives the fluctuations of healthy hearts a higher complexit= y rating than the fluctuations of diseased or aging hearts. (Costa et al.= , Physical Review Letters, 5 August 2002) PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE will presently go on a three week holiday. ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23973.E33EA130 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
Th= e American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 600&nb= sp; August 1, 2002   by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James= Riordon

HIGH PRECISION TESTS OF THE STANDARD MODEL have been repo= rted this past week in two areas: CP-violation in B mesons (experiments a= t the KEK lab in Japan and the SLAC lab in California) and the magnetic m= oment of the muon (an experiment at the Brookhaven lab in New York). = ; The standard model, trying to explain the forces of nature through the = exchange of particles, consists of the electroweak framework (force excha= nged by photons and by Z and W bosons) plus the quantum chromodynamic (QC= D) framework for quarks (force exchanged by gluons).  The model has = been highly successful in accounting for the behavior of electrons in ato= ms (in the case of some transition frequencies, theory and experiment agr= ee at the parts-per-trillion level or better) and does a good job of pred= icting other phenomena as well, such as CP violation.  The model doe= s not include, but can accommodate, neutrino oscillation.  Extension= s of the standard model, such as superstring theory--which pictures all m= atter as consisting of tiny strings or membranes--can (unlike the standar= d model) account for the force of gravity, the existence of extra spatial= dimensions, and the proposition (known as supersymmetry, or SUSY) that a= ll fermion particles have boson counterparts and vice versa.  SUSY i= s by now an acceptable idea for many particle physicists but it would nec= essitate an overhaul of the standard model since the existence of superpa= rticles would entail a whole new force, one which transforms fermions int= o bosons and back again.  This force, in turn, would be transmitted = via a hypothetical "leptoquark" particle.
     The= new CP violation tests were reported at the International Conference on = High Energy Physics in Amsterdam.  Both the Belle detector group at = KEK and the BaBar detector group at SLAC observed subtleties in the decay= s of B mesons and measured a parameter called sine two beta.  The va= lue measured for both groups, with much better precision than ever before= , is approaching the value predicted by the standard model, thus erasing = past discrepancies. (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/media-info/2002072= 3/sine2b.html)
     Meanwhile, at Brookhaven the g= -2 collaboration seeks to observe a departure of  the muon's magneti= c moment (related to the muon's spin by the g parameter) from 2, the valu= e it would have in the absence of interactions between the muon and virtu= al particles in the universal vacuum, including possible exotica outside = the standard model such as the supersymmetric entities.  Although th= e SUSY particles are rare and unstable their mere existence in the vacuum= would modify observable quantities such as the muon magnetic moment.&nbs= p; Thus a measurement of the magnetic moment, by watching muons decay eve= n as they wobble about in a strong magnetic field, would give indirect ev= idence for the extra particles.  Moderate evidence in this direction= was previously reported by the g-2 team; the new results, reported also = in Amsterdam (and submitted to Physical Review Letters), follow suit but = with twice the precision of the last report. (http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/p= ubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr073002.htm)

NEW COSMOLOGICAL UPPER LIMIT ON = ; NEUTRINO MASS.   Neutrino news has been dramatic these past f= ew years: neutrinos have been shown to oscillate from one type to another= (http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1998/split/pnu375-1.htm) and the sola= r neutrino problem has been resolved  (www.aip.org/enews/physnews/20= 02/split/586-1.html) after puzzling solar physicists for decades.  T= hese results imply that at least one or more of the neutrino flavors (ele= ctron, mu, tau) have some mass and this, considering the number of nu's l= oose in the universe, means that even lightweight neutrinos will have had= a palpable role in influencing the development of galaxies.  But ho= w much nu mass is there and how big a role did nu's play?  Particle = physics experiments so far directly establish only values for the square = of neutrino mass differences.  From tritium decay experiments comes = an upper limit of 2.2 eV for the electron neutrino.  Upper limits fo= r the mu or tau neutrinos are up in the MeV range.
    = The new mass limits come from looking at the distribution of galaxies acr= oss the canopy of the sky.  The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey has scann= ed 250,000 galaxies (viewed 400 at a time with a telescope in Siding Spri= ng Mountain, Australia).  The galactic coordinates can be compared t= wo at a time, providing a plot of the number of galaxies versus inter-gal= axy distance.  Turned into a galactic "power spectrum," this correla= tion study can be used to estimate the likely density of the constituent = species of matter in the universe: baryons (such as protons), cold dark m= atter (WIMPs), and hot dark matter (neutrinos are the leading candidate).=   The 2dF work arrives at two big neutrino conclusions.  (1) Ne= utrinos can account for no more than 13% of the matter in the universe an= d (2) the sum of all the nu masses (electron plus mu plus tau) is no more= than 2.2 eV.  Group member Oystein Elgaroy (University of Cambridge= , elgaroy@ast.cam.ac.uk, 44-1223-75 x17) says that this is the best upper= limit for neutrino mass derived with relatively conservative assumptions= on the total matter density in the universe.  (Elgaroy et al., Phys= ical Review Letters, 5 August 2002; also see Physical Review Focus, 12 Ju= ly, focus.aps.org/)

A NEW WAY OF MEASURING COMPLEXITY for biologic= al systems has been proposed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and= University of Lisbon (contact Madalena Costa, 617-667-2428, madalena@mim= ic.bidmc.harvard.edu , Ary L. Goldberger, 617-667-4267, agoldber@caregrou= p.harvard.edu and C.-K. Peng, 617-667-7122, peng@physionet.org). Their me= thod suggests that disease and aging can be quantified in terms of inform= ation loss.   In the researchers' view, a biological organism's= complexity is intimately related to its adaptability (e.g., can it survi= ve hostile environments on its own?) and its functionality (e.g., can it = do higher math?).  In this view, disease and aging reduce an organis= m's complexity, thereby making it less adaptive and more vulnerable to ca= tastrophic events.
    But traditional yardsticks somet= imes contradict this "complexity-loss" theory of disease and aging. = Such conventional metrics, originally developed for information science,= quantify complexity by determining how much new information a system can= generate. By traditional measures, a diseased heart with a highly errati= c rhythm like atrial fibrillation is more complex than a healthy one.&nbs= p; That's because a diseased heart can generate completely random variati= ons ("white noise") in its heart rate.  These random variations cont= inually produce "new" information, i.e., information that cannot be predi= cted from the heart's past history.  On the other hand, a healthy he= art displays a less-random pattern known as 1/f noise (see Update 90).   The problem, according to the researchers, is that conventi= onal measures of complexity ignore multiple time scales.   To a= ddress the inherent multi-scale nature of biological organisms, the resea= rchers developed a new "multi-scale entropy" (MSE) tool for calculating b= iological complexity. Their technique works like this: Take a heart rate = time series of about 30,000 beats. Then split it into coarse-grained chun= ks of 20 heartbeats each and compute the average heart rate in each chunk= . Then measure the heart rate's unpredictability (its variations from chu= nk to chunk). More unpredictability means more new information, and great= er complexity.  Repeat this complexity calculation numerous times fo= r different-sized chunks, from 1-19 heartbeats.  Such a technique ca= n reveal the complex arrangement of information over different time scale= s.  Applied to heartbeat intervals in healthy young and elderly subj= ects, patients with severe congestive heart failure, and patients with at= rial fibrillation, the MSE algorithm consistently gives the fluctuations = of healthy hearts a higher complexity rating than the fluctuations of dis= eased or aging hearts. (Costa et al., Physical Review Letters, 5 August 2= 002)

PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE will presently go on a three week holiday= .
------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23973.E33EA130-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 13:15:25 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71KFO2D010933 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA01800 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:03:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe7.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.87]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01791; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:03:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:02:34 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Funding in Jeopardy for Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:02:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0010_01C23974.D3086ED0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 20:02:34.0227 (UTC) FILETIME=[603CCC30:01C23996] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C23974.D3086ED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable NASA GRC: Funding in jeopardy for Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6119 The budget for the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project is being cut. = Not only are all future years budgets in question, but also 21% of the funds already alloc= ated for this year have been requested to be withdrawn. It is uncertain if these reductions= will be repaired. -- Chandra Discovers "Rivers fo Gravity" That Define Cosmic Landscape http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8921 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered part of an intergalactic= web of hot gas and dark matter that contains most of the material in the universe. The = hot gas, which appears to lie like a fog in channels carved by rivers of gravity, has b= een hidden from view since the time galaxies formed. Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Medusae Fossae http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6096 ------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C23974.D3086ED0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
NASA GRC: Fund= ing in jeopardy for Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP)

The budget = for the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project is being cut. Not only ar= e all
future years budgets in question, but also 21% of the funds alre= ady allocated for this year
have been requested to be withdrawn. = It is uncertain if these reductions will be repaired.


-- Chandra Discovers "Rivers fo Gravity" That Define Cosmic Landscap= e
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8921

NASA's Ch= andra X-ray Observatory has discovered part of  an intergalactic web= of hot gas
and dark matter that contains  most of the material i= n the universe. The hot gas, which
appears to lie like a fog in channe= ls carved by rivers of  gravity, has been hidden from view
since = the time galaxies formed.

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Medusae Fossa= e
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------=_NextPart_001_0010_01C23974.D3086ED0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 13:23:26 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71KNJ2D026385 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA01867 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:10:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe135.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.128]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01863 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:10:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:09:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Alien species invade Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:09:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0011_01C23975.CF79D460" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 20:09:48.0475 (UTC) FILETIME=[6311C8B0:01C23997] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C23975.CF79D460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:53 PM To: CUNEWS-AG-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-LIFE_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SC= IENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Alien species invade Cornell ecologist's book on alien invaders more than summertime thriller: It's a nonfiction account of introduced species' destructive impact FOR RELEASE: July 31, 2002 Contact: Roger Segelken Office: 607-255-9736 E-mail: hrs2@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- As a respite from summertime weed-whacking, fly-swatting and pest-repelling, a new book edited and co-authored by Cornell University ecologist David Pimentel makes compelling reading. But readers of Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species (CRC Press, 2002) won't want to tarry too long. An estimated 50,000 "exotics" are causing tens of billions of dollars in harm each year in the United States, according to the new book, and more are on the way. And they're not arriving via spaceships, but in the thousands of aircraft and sea-going ships in everyday commerce, the authors observe. The book covers many of the more than 120,000 non-indigenous species that have invaded six countries (the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, South Africa and Brazil) and gives special emphasis to globe-traveling exotic diseases before making recommendations to help nations slow the influx. "The impact of invasive species is second only to that of human population growth and associated activities as a cost of loss of biodiversity throughout the world," says Pimentel, a professor emeritus in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "In the United States, invasions of non-native plants, animals and microbes are thought to be responsible for 42 percent of the decline of native species now listed as endangered or threatened." The names of some invading species are threatening enough. For instance, giant hogweed, a perennial herb in Britain, is blamed for serious dermatitis when it contacts skin. Root-rot fungus is a plant disease spread through Australia by feral pigs, which themselves are non-native down under. Paterson's curse, a weed that invaded Australian pastures, sickens sheep by damaging their livers with plant toxins. Yet the screw-worm fly is a curse to cattle in tropical regions everywhere in the world -- except Australia. Other invaders sound like they stowed away in shipments of Harry Potter books: Oxford ragwort was deliberately imported from Sicily 's Mount Etna for cultivation in the Oxford Botanic Gardens in the 1700s and now is spreading though Ireland and Scotland; ivy-leafed toadflax was introduced a century before ragwort and now is a common English herb; and paddy brown spot has nothing to do with Paddington Bear but is a serious plant disease that arrived in India on imported seeds and caused the Bengal famine of 1943 in which 2 million perished. Certain microbes need no introduction, and they didn't need a visa to traverse the continents and cause contagion. Tuberculosis, AIDS, hepatitis, influenza, cholera, bubonic plague are among diseases that the book blames on introduced pathogenic microbes. In the United States alone, health-care costs for AIDS average $6 billion a year, while a single outbreak of influenza can incur $300 million in hospitalization costs and take hundreds of lives, says Pimentel. "An increasing threat of exotic diseases exists because of rapid transportation, encroachment of civilization into new ecosystems and increasing environmental degradation," he writes. The editor-author and his 44 contributing scientist-writers are careful to note that not all introduced species have entirely deleterious effects in their new homes, and many are depended on for human sustenance. Some 98 percent of the U.S. food supply comes from introduced species, such as corn, wheat, rice and other crops, as well as cattle, poultry and other livestock. Or take the example of Paterson's curse (Echium plantagineum) on Australia. When the weed's toxic alkaloids aren't ruining animals' livers, its flowers produce nectar used by bees for a pale honey that fetches a premium price in the Japanese market. And in the semi-arid rangelands of northern South Australia, the damaging pasture weed is considered such a useful fodder, when handled properly, that cattlemen call it "salvation Jane." However, economic analysts cited in Biological Invasions call Paterson's curse a mixed blessing to the Outback, with an estimated $30 million in annual costs and only $2 million in benefits. In fact, only 20 to 30 percent of the 120,000 non-indigenous species become pests and cause major environmental damage, the authors acknowledge. That proportion, however, is more than enough to merit control efforts and attempts to prevent future invasions. "All introductions of non-native plants, animals and microbes, for whatever purposes -- including agriculture, hunting, tourism, pets, recreation and research -- should be strictly regulated," Pimentel and his co-authors conclude. "In addition, the government should make every effort to inform the public concerning the serious environmental and economic threats that are associated with alien species introductions." 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 Publisher: o Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: -30- The web version of this release may be found at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July02/alien_invaders.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_0011_01C23975.CF79D460 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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thriller: It's a= nonfiction account of introduced species'
destructive impact

F= OR RELEASE:  July 31, 2002

Contact:  Roger Segelken
O= ffice:  607-255-9736
E-mail:  hrs2@cornell.edu


IT= HACA, N.Y. -- As a respite from summertime weed-whacking,
fly-swatting= and pest-repelling, a new book edited and co-authored by
Cornell Univ= ersity ecologist David Pimentel makes compelling reading.

But read= ers of Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs
of Alien= Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species (CRC Press, 2002) won't
want to ta= rry too long. An estimated 50,000 "exotics" are causing
tens of billio= ns of dollars in harm each year in the United States,
according to the= new book, and more are on the way. And they're not
arriving via space= ships, but in the thousands of aircraft and
sea-going ships in everyda= y commerce, the authors observe.

The book covers many of the more = than 120,000 non-indigenous species
that have invaded six countries (t= he United States, United Kingdom,
Australia, India, South Africa and B= razil) and gives special emphasis
to globe-traveling exotic diseases b= efore making recommendations to
help nations slow the influx.

"= The impact of invasive species is second only to that of human
populat= ion growth and associated activities as a cost of loss of
biodiversity= throughout the world," says Pimentel, a professor
emeritus in Cornell= 's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "In
the United States, in= vasions of non-native plants, animals and
microbes are thought to be r= esponsible for 42 percent of the decline
of native species now listed = as endangered or threatened." The names
of some invading species are t= hreatening enough. For instance, giant
hogweed, a perennial herb in Br= itain, is blamed for serious
dermatitis when it contacts skin. Root-ro= t fungus is a plant disease
spread through Australia by feral pigs, wh= ich themselves are
non-native down under. Paterson's curse, a weed tha= t invaded
Australian pastures, sickens sheep by damaging their livers = with
plant toxins. Yet the screw-worm fly is a curse to cattle in trop= ical
regions everywhere in the world -- except Australia.

Other= invaders sound like they stowed away in shipments of Harry
Potter boo= ks: Oxford ragwort was deliberately imported from Sicily 's
Mount Etna= for cultivation in the Oxford Botanic Gardens in the 1700s
and now is= spreading though Ireland and Scotland; ivy-leafed toadflax
was introd= uced a century before ragwort and now is a common English
herb; and pa= ddy brown spot has nothing to do with Paddington Bear but
is a serious= plant disease that arrived in India on imported seeds
and caused the = Bengal famine of 1943 in which 2 million perished.

Certain microbe= s need no introduction, and they didn't need a visa to
traverse the co= ntinents and cause contagion. Tuberculosis, AIDS,
hepatitis, influenza= , cholera, bubonic plague are among diseases that
the book blames on i= ntroduced pathogenic microbes. In the United
States alone, health-care= costs for AIDS average $6 billion a year,
while a single outbreak of = influenza can incur $300 million in
hospitalization costs and take hun= dreds of lives, says Pimentel. "An
increasing threat of exotic disease= s exists because of rapid
transportation, encroachment of civilization= into new ecosystems and
increasing environmental degradation," he wri= tes.

The editor-author and his 44 contributing scientist-writers a= re
careful to note that not all introduced species have entirely
de= leterious effects in their new homes, and many are depended on for
hum= an sustenance. Some 98 percent of the U.S. food supply comes from
intr= oduced species, such as corn, wheat, rice and other crops, as
well as = cattle, poultry and other livestock.

Or take the example of Paters= on's curse (Echium plantagineum) on
Australia. When the weed's toxic a= lkaloids aren't ruining animals'
livers, its flowers produce nectar us= ed by bees for a pale honey that
fetches a premium price in the Japane= se market. And in the semi-arid
rangelands of northern South Australia= , the damaging pasture weed is
considered such a useful fodder, when h= andled properly, that
cattlemen call it "salvation Jane." However, eco= nomic analysts cited
in Biological Invasions call Paterson's curse a m= ixed blessing to the
Outback, with an estimated $30 million in annual = costs and only $2
million in benefits.

In fact, only 20 to 30 p= ercent of the 120,000 non-indigenous species
become pests and cause ma= jor environmental damage, the authors
acknowledge. That proportion, ho= wever, is more than enough to merit
control efforts and attempts to pr= event future invasions.

"All introductions of non-native plants, a= nimals and microbes, for
whatever purposes -- including agriculture, h= unting, tourism, pets,
recreation and research -- should be strictly r= egulated," Pimentel
and his co-authors conclude.  "In addition, t= he government should
make every effort to inform the public concerning= the serious
environmental and economic threats that are associated wi= th alien
species introductions."



Related World Wide Web= sites:  The following sites provide
additional information on th= is news release.  Some might not be part
of the Cornell Universit= y community, and Cornell has no control over
their content or availabi= lity.

o Publisher: <http://www.crcpress.com/>

o Depar= tment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: <http://www.eeb.cornell.edu= />



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The web version of this release = may be found at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July02/alien_inva= ders.hrs.html

Cornell University News Service
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Cornel= l University
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New Reference:
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* Latest Events:
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  Unique Imagery: Smoke, Clouds and Ship Tr= acks Off California Coast
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHaza= rds/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4651

  Unique Imagery: B= right Water Off Newfoundland
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalH= azards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4652

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http://earthobservat= ory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4653

=   Fire: McNalley Fire in Sequoia National Forest
http://earthobse= rvatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4648
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http://earthobse= rvatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4647
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http://earthobservatory= .nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=3D4643

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  Summit Crater of Mauna Loa
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  Three Gorges Dam, China
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- Global Warming May Push Bats to the Low Arctic
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- Monsoon Intensity Increas= ing as Earth Warms
- Record Sea Temperatures Threaten Great Barrier Re= ef
- Slowest U.S. Tornado Year Since 1988
- Indian Government Says = Lack of Rain Worst in Decade
- Landsat Paints a Portrait of Our Changi= ng Planet
- Air Pollution Changes Rainfall, May Cause Drought
- Unl= ocking the Storm Code
- Ice Crystals Clues to Climate
- West Nile V= irus Spreads Westward into 26 States
- Study Finds Alaska Glaciers Mel= ting at Higher Rate
- China?s Pollution Found in Hawaii
- NASA Turn= s New Weather Bird Over to NOAA
- Cause and Effect Across 70,000 Years= of Atmospheric Chaos





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http://www.spac= e.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_5_020729.html

This five-part deb= ate has covered a variety of topics prompted by the hypothesis of "Rare E= arth," a book by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee that suggests complex lif= e may be unique to Earth.

* NASA Scientists Call British Media's A= steroid Hype Unethical Rubbish
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/a= steroid_scare_020729-1.html

A small asteroid threat hyped to gloom= -and-doom proportions by British media last week has left several U.S. sc= ientists frustrated and fuming over what they call misleading and unethic= al stories that frightened readers unnecessarily. Meanwhile, a British re= porter defends the stories, a British astronomer wonders what all the fus= s is about and another suggests American scientists are too complacent ab= out the danger.

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Today i= n SpaceFlight:

* Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status= Report on Red Planet Plans
http://www.space.com/news/mars_czar_020730= .html

NASA is shaping plans for the next decade to dot Mars with h= ighly capable robotic craft, including a probe that rockets back to Earth= samples of Martian terrain.

* New Image Gallery: Space Stations a= s Art
http://www.space.com/spaceviews/

The stunning art of John= Frassanito and Associates offers glimpses at Mir,
the International S= pace Station and future homes for astronauts.

* Astronotes: Scramj= et Test Planned for Tuesday Over Australian Outback
http://www.space.c= om/news/astronotes-1.html

Rocket scientists down under plan on Tue= sday to test a hypersonic scramjet engine after it is boosted to the corr= ect altitude and speed over the Woomera range in the South Australian out= back.

* Shuttle Atlantis Likely to Fly First, Cracked Plumbing to = be Fixed by Welding
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_update_02= 0726.html

Tiny cracks in the space shuttle's propulsion system plu= mbing will be repaired by welding and the next mission -- an Internationa= l Space Station assembly flight -- could launch as soon as late September= or early October.

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Tod= ay in Business/Industry:

* Orbital Sciences Posts Small Profit in = Second Quarter
http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday= _020729.html

Industry analysts say Orbital Sciences Corp.'s second= quarter results indicate the company may be recovering from the financia= l struggles of the past few years.

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http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/
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http://www.spacejobs.com/

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

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A geomagnetic = field disturbance was expected to begin early Monday and continue into Tu= esday in response to July 26 eruption on the Sun. Active to major storm l= evels are possible during this disturbance. Earth's geomagnetic field act= ivity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels Wednesday.
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The current sunspot number is 300, and the solar wind s= peed recently clocked in at 393 kilometers per second.

The solar w= ind density was 4.4 protons per cubic centimeter.

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------=_NextPart_001_001E_01C23977.C5CA0DC0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 13:39:34 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71KdW2D016601 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA01992 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:26:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe22.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.102]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01988 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:26:18 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cornell News: Standard Model workshops Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:26:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0020_01C23978.22A347A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 20:26:18.0089 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0ECE590:01C23999] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0020_01C23978.22A347A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cunews@cornell.edu Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:11 PM To: CUNEWS-PHYSICAL_SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SOCIAL_SCIENCE-L@cornel= l.edu; CUNEWS-CAMPUS-L@cornell.edu; CUNEWS-SCIENCE-L@cornell.edu Subject: Cornell News: Standard Model workshops With help from Cornell, New York state science teachers prepare to =20 bring modern particle physics into high school classrooms FOR RELEASE: Aug. 1, 2002 Contact: David Brand Office: 607-255-3651 E-mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- Move over Sir Isaac Newton and make way for quarks and le= ptons. A theory that has been part of the physics canon for more than 30 =20 years is now making its way into New York state's high school science =20 classrooms. But before they can introduce their students to the new =20 material, high school teachers across the state must get a grasp on =20 it themselves -- with help from Cornell University. In the spring of 2001, as part of statewide public school reforms in =20 math, science and technology education, New York state introduced a =20 new core curriculum and a standardized Regents examination in =20 physics. While the curriculum still includes plenty of classical =20 Newtonian physics, like the laws of motion and gravity, it also =20 includes the Standard Model: a difficult theory about the fundamental =20 particles in nature and how they interact. "It's quite possible that even if they were physics majors, teachers =20 may have never seen it before," says Ahren Sadoff, research professor =20 at Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP). "Odds =20 are that the vast majority of high school physics teachers probably =20 don't know much about it." To bridge this knowledge gap, particle physicists and space =20 scientists at Cornell are working with New York state physics =20 teachers to develop laboratory exercises and other curriculum =20 materials on the Standard Model. Recently high school physics =20 teachers convened at Cornell for a workshop in which teachers spent a =20 week developing laboratory exercises for their students on the =20 Standard Model as well as on planetary science and the concept of =20 scale. Cornell physicists and graduate students were on hand to =20 advise the teachers on making the abstract realm of particle physics =20 accessible. "What I heard from teachers was that they were very ill-prepared to =20 teach the Standard Model," said Lora Hine, educational outreach =20 coordinator for LEPP and an organizer of the workshop. "There's =20 really a lack of materials provided by the state for teaching the =20 Standard Model."Materials developed in the workshop will be made =20 available to teachers across the state via the Web. The body of theory known as the Standard Model, which emerged in its =20 current form in the early 1970s, is a combination of two major =20 developments in particle physics. The first was the theory that =20 protons and neutrons, the subatomic particles once thought to be the =20 basic units of the atom's nucleus, are themselves composed of still =20 more fundamental particles, known as quarks. Another basic unit of =20 matter, it's now believed, is the lepton, a point-like particle with =20 no internal structure, the best-known example being the electron. The =20 second major component of the Standard Model is the unification of =20 three of the four fundamental forces in nature into a single, =20 seamless piece of theory: Two of the forces, the electromagnetic =20 force, which accounts for electrical, chemical and magnetic =20 interactions, and the weak force, which governs the interactions =20 between leptons, are now combined in the electroweak theory. This, in =20 turn, is unified in the Standard Model with the effects of the strong =20 force that binds quarks together. Attempts to unify the theory with =20 gravity, the weakest of the four fundamental forces, have so far been =20 unsuccessful. In volume, the Standard Model makes up a very small portion of the =20 overall Regents physics curriculum. Indeed, the only reference to it =20 in the 38-page physics core curriculum guide published by the New =20 York State Department of Education is a single "performance =20 indicator," representing just a few of many concepts that high school =20 students taking the state's Regents exam in physics are expected to =20 understand. Even so, the inclusion of the Standard Model in the mandated core =20 curriculum is a significant upgrade, bringing the concepts taught in =20 New York state classrooms far closer to the physics currently being =20 taught, researched and debated in universities. "If you take out the Standard Model, then you're mostly teaching =20 stuff that's about 300 years old. If you check out newspapers and =20 magazines -- and some kids do read those things -- you see that a lot =20 of the articles that relate to physics are dealing with particle =20 physics," said Andrew Telesca, a physics teacher at Johnson City High =20 School and a contributor to the core curriculum. "We needed something =20 that was going to bring physics teaching in high schools into the =20 21st century." "I seldom get an opportunity to work with anybody who does what I =20 do," said Michael Mangini, a teacher at Dryden Central Schools and a =20 participant in the recent Cornell workshop. "Most schools aren't big =20 enough to have two or three physics teachers. An opportunity to be =20 with colleagues who have similar problems and similar ideas -- that's =20 really hard to turn down." This article was prepared by Cornell News Service science intern Lissa Ha= rris -30- The web version of this release may be found at =20 http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug02/standardmodel.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_0020_01C23978.22A347A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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FOR RELEASE:  Aug. 1,  2002
Contact:  David Brand
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Move over Sir Isaac Newto= n and make way for quarks and leptons.

A theory that has been part= of the physics canon for more than 30
years is now making its way in= to New York state's high school science
classrooms. But before they c= an introduce their students to the new
material, high school teachers= across the state must get a grasp on
it themselves -- with help from= Cornell University.

In the spring of 2001, as part of statewide p= ublic school reforms in
math, science and technology education, New Y= ork state introduced a
new core curriculum and a standardized Regents= examination in
physics. While the curriculum still includes plenty o= f classical
Newtonian physics, like the laws of motion and gravity, i= t also
includes the Standard Model: a difficult theory about the fund= amental
particles in nature and how they interact.

"It's quite= possible that even if they were physics majors, teachers
may have ne= ver seen it before," says Ahren Sadoff, research professor
at Cornell= 's Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP). "Odds
are that = the vast majority of high school physics teachers probably
don't know= much about it."

To bridge this knowledge gap, particle physicists= and space
scientists at Cornell are working with New York state phys= ics
teachers to develop laboratory exercises and other curriculum materials on the Standard Model. Recently high school physics
teache= rs convened at Cornell for a workshop in which teachers spent a
week = developing laboratory exercises for their students on the
Standard Mo= del as well as on planetary science and the concept of
scale. Cornell= physicists and graduate students were on hand to
advise the teachers= on making the abstract realm of particle physics
accessible.

= "What I heard from teachers was that they were very ill-prepared to
t= each the Standard Model," said Lora Hine, educational outreach
coordi= nator for LEPP and an organizer of the workshop. "There's
really a la= ck of materials provided by the state for teaching the
Standard Model= ."Materials developed in the workshop will be made
available to teach= ers across the state via the Web.

The body of theory known as the = Standard Model, which emerged in its
current form in the early 1970s,= is a combination of two major
developments in particle physics. The = first was the theory that
protons and neutrons, the subatomic particl= es once thought to be the
basic units of the atom's nucleus, are them= selves composed of still
more fundamental particles, known as quarks.= Another basic unit of
matter, it's now believed, is the lepton, a po= int-like particle with
no internal structure, the best-known example = being the electron. The
second major component of the Standard Model = is the unification of
three of the four fundamental forces in nature = into a single,
seamless piece of theory: Two of the forces, the elect= romagnetic
force, which accounts for electrical, chemical and magneti= c
interactions, and the weak force, which governs the interactions between leptons, are now combined in the electroweak theory. This, in <= BR>turn, is unified in the Standard Model with the effects of the strong =
force that binds quarks together. Attempts to unify the theory with <= BR>gravity, the weakest of the four fundamental forces, have so far been =
unsuccessful.

In volume, the Standard Model makes up a very sm= all portion of the
overall Regents physics curriculum. Indeed, the on= ly reference to it
in the 38-page physics core curriculum guide publi= shed by the New
York State Department of Education is a single "perfo= rmance
indicator," representing just a few of many concepts that high= school
students taking the state's Regents exam in physics are expec= ted to
understand.

Even so, the inclusion of the Standard Mode= l in the mandated core
curriculum is a significant upgrade, bringing = the concepts taught in
New York state classrooms far closer to the ph= ysics currently being
taught, researched and debated in universities.=

"If you take out the Standard Model, then you're mostly teaching =
stuff that's about 300 years old. If you check out newspapers and magazines -- and some kids do read those things -- you see that a lot of the articles that relate to physics are dealing with particle
ph= ysics," said Andrew Telesca, a physics teacher at Johnson City High
S= chool and a contributor to the core curriculum. "We needed something
= that was going to bring physics teaching in high schools into the
21s= t century."

"I seldom get an opportunity to work with anybody who = does what I
do," said Michael Mangini, a teacher at Dryden Central Sc= hools and a
participant in the recent Cornell workshop. "Most schools= aren't big
enough to have two or three physics teachers. An opportun= ity to be
with colleagues who have similar problems and similar ideas= -- that's
really hard to turn down."

This article was prepare= d by Cornell News Service science intern Lissa Harris

-30-

=

The web version of this release may be found at
http://www.ne= ws.cornell.edu/releases/Aug02/standardmodel.html

Cornell Universit= y News Service
Surge 3
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
60= 7-255-4206
cunews@cornell.edu
http://www.news.cornell.edu
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However the research is not done for the year. Research will continue from Resolu= te on Cornwallis Island until August 10th. The SpaceRef webcams will be going offline tonight although we may have t= hem setup in Resolute as researchers conduct tests of new equipment. Stay tuned. -- Updates and links to the webcams are online at http://www.mars.tv -- Official HMP news and updates are online at http://www.marsonearth.org THE DAY IN SPACE ________________ -- SeaWiFS Sensor Marks Five Years Documenting Earth's Dynamic Biosphere http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8917 In the last five years, scientists have been able to monitor our changing planet in ways never before possible. The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS), aboard the OrbView-2 satellite, has given researchers a= n unprecedented view of the biological engine that drives life on Earth -- the countless forms of plants that cover the land and fill the oceans. -- Cosmic rays linked to global warming http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8918 Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the differences between observed increases in surface-level temperatures and unchanging low-atmosphere temperatures. Because of this discrepancy, some have argued that global warming is unproven, suggesting instead that true warming should show uniformly elevated temperatures from the surface through the atmosphere. Researchers have proposed a theory that changes in cloud cover could help explain the puzzling phenomenon, but none-until now-have come up with an argument that could account for the varying heat profiles. 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MARS ON EARTH 2002

The field season on Dev= on Island is coming to a close this week. However
the research is not = done for the year. Research will continue from Resolute on
Cornwallis = Island until August 10th.

The SpaceRef webcams will be going offli= ne tonight although we may have them setup
in Resolute as researchers = conduct tests of new equipment. Stay tuned.

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-- Official HMP n= ews and updates are online at http://www.marsonearth.org

THE DAY I= N SPACE
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-- SeaWiFS Sensor Marks Five Years Doc= umenting Earth's Dynamic Biosphere
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr= .html?pid=3D8917

In the last five years, scientists have been able= to monitor our changing
planet in ways never before possible. The Sea= -viewing Wide Field-of-View
Sensor (SeaWiFS), aboard the OrbView-2 sat= ellite, has given researchers an
unprecedented view of the biological = engine that drives life on Earth --
the countless forms of plants that= cover the land and fill the oceans.

-- Cosmic rays linked to glob= al warming
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8918

= Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the
= differences between observed increases in surface-level temperatures and<= BR>unchanging low-atmosphere temperatures. Because of this discrepancy, s= ome
have argued that global warming is unproven, suggesting instead th= at true
warming should show uniformly elevated temperatures from the s= urface
through the atmosphere. Researchers have proposed a theory that= changes
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now-have come up with an argument that could account for = the varying
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Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Medusae Fossae
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= ------=_NextPart_001_0025_01C23978.ABFDC930-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 1 13:47:27 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g71KlQ2D000011 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA02013 for bioastro-list; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:28:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe90.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.232]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02009 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:28:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:27:43 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.14] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: [BFI_News] FW: Vol. 3 No. 7 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:27:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0022_01C23978.4E20DAF0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2002 20:27:43.0369 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3C19790:01C23999] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0022_01C23978.4E20DAF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Buckminster Fuller Institute Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:09 PM To: BFI NEWS Subject: [BFI_News] FW: Vol. 3 No. 7 Welcome to Vol.3 No.7 of BFI_News, the e-bulletin of the =20 Buckminster Fuller Institute. ---------------------------------------------------- This month's issue of BFI_News comes to you a bit later than usual as we were in San Diego at the ESRI conference that we mentioned last month. Look out for news from the event in our next e-bulletin! BFI_News brings you news from around the world focused on design solutions to planetary problems. It also features updates from BFI and periodic special offers to our members. ----------------------------------------------------------- FOOD FOR THOUGHT ----------------------------------------------------------- "Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. -R. Buckminster Fuller ----------------------------------------------------------- TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES ----------------------------------------------------------- Say Good-Bye to Plastic: Trash That Melts - Just Add Water It could be the biggest thing since sliced bread was wrapped in cellophane: biodegradable food packaging cheap enough to compete with conventional plastic. Once used, it can be thrown onto the compost heap or even eaten. This year, startup Plantic Technologies will roll out a cornstarch-based bioplastic that can be molded into everything from Twinkie wrappers to cracker trays. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=3D8 (Source: Wired.com) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanksgiving Coffee Company Brews Coffee, Environmental Protection in One Cup Thanksgiving Coffee Company, a California-based company that specializes in certified organic, fair trade, and shade-grown coffees and teas, has announced a new line of coffee that that will raise funds to protect endangered species. http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2002/07/07032002/s_47611.asp (Source: Environmental News Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Computer, Heal Thyself Self-healing and self-replicating circuits and chips mimic Mother Nature at Villa Reuge museum in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53729,00.html/wn_ascii (Source: Go Hotwired.com) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Study Shows Eco-Efficiency Yields Healthy Returns on Pharmaceuticals=E2=80=99 Stock Pharmaceutical companies with superior environmental performance have outperformed laggards by 17 percent in the stock market over the past year, according to a new study. http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2002/07/07172002/s_47758.asp (Source: Environmental News Network) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sales of Solar Cells Take Off Last year world solar cell production soared to 395 megawatts up 37 percent over 2000. This annual growth in output, now comparable in size to a new power plant, is set to take off in the years ahead as production costs fall. http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=3D826 (Source: Sustainable Business.com) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 'Consumption Barometer' to Help Keep Johannesburg Summit Green Delegates to the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg will be able to consult a "consumption barometer" offering a daily update on how much food, water, energy, paper, and other resources they use. http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=3D20933 (Source: BreenBiz.com) ----------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES ----------------------------------------------------------- Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits This research paper by the Rocky Mountain Institute explores the cost-effectiveness of using fuel cells to generate domestic, commercial, and industrial power. "Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits" finds that, over the next decade, the once-centralized electric industry will evolve toward a more competitive and heterogeneous structure. In this new environment, the use of fuel cells will become economical if their proponents can capture their benefits as small, decentralized power sources. http://www.greenbiz.com/toolbox/tools_third.cfm?LinkAdvID=3D24949 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes By following "green" principles, home builders can design comfortable, environmentally friendly homes that will yield significant savings on utility bills for their owners. The Green Building Guidelines is full of useful design tips, explanations, and references on topics ranging from energy conservation to improved indoor air quality to the most inexpensive and sustainable construction materials. If you=C2=B9ve ever dreamed of building the perfect green home, this book is a valuable blueprint for getting started. http://www.sbicouncil.org/home/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------- EVENTS ----------------------------------------------------------- Sustainable Living Workshop August 5-9 2002 Real Goods Solar Living Institute Hopland , CA US Permaculture; Passive Solar and Ecological Design; Sustainable Wastewater Design; Beginning Photovoltaics. 707-744-2017 isl@rgisl.org http://www.solarliving.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development August 26 - September 4, 2002 Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg Summit 2002=E2=80=B9the World Summit on Sustainable Development=E2=80=B9will bring together tens of thousands of participants= , including heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other Major Groups. The Summit will focus the world=C2=B9s attention on actions to achieve sustainable development. (Read the current issue of our Trimtab newsletter for more about the Summit.) http://www.johannesburgsummit.org ----------------------------------------------------------- BFI UPDATE ----------------------------------------------------------- Our Summer Trimtab Newsletter Now Online! Visit our home page (http://www.bfi.org) to read articles from our current issue of the Trimtab, or follow the links to download the pdf fil= e. Our special focus in this issue is the upcoming United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa: - a speech by Secretary General of the U.N., Mr. Kofi Annan - information about the World Sustainability Hearing - resources related to the Summit Also in this issue: - an article on the Eden Project, the geodesic dome biomes in England - Meet the BFI Board - Updates on the EARTHscope - E. O. Wilson's "The Future of Life" ----------------------------------------------------------- Are you BFI member? If you enjoyed this e-bulletin and want to support our work, you can say so with a tax-deductible donation which automatically makes you a BFI member. Member donations make it possible for us to bring you this information and more. Donate online at https://www.websitesecured.com/~bfi.org/member.asp or call us at 707-824-2242. Members receive: - a yearly subscription to our newsletter, Trimtab; - 10% discount on all product purchases (visit our online store at http://www.bfi.org/search.html); - periodic special offers! ----------------------------------------------------------- Have you come across a news item that you think would be good for our e-bulletin? Please contact us at info@bfi.org. We'd love to hear from you. Past issues of BFI_News are at http://www.bfi.org/news/ebulletin/index.html. 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<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: Buckminster Fuller Institute
S= ent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:09 PM
To: BFI NEWS
Subj= ect: [BFI_News] FW: Vol. 3 No. 7
 
Welcome to Vo= l.3 No.7 of BFI_News, the e-bulletin of the
Buckminster Fuller Instit= ute.

----------------------------------------------------
This = month's issue of BFI_News comes to you a bit later than usual
as we we= re in San Diego at the ESRI conference that we  mentioned
last mo= nth. Look out for news from the event in our next e-bulletin!

BFI_= News brings you news from around the world focused on
design solutions= to planetary problems. It also features updates
from BFI and periodic= special offers to our members.

----------------------------------= -------------------------
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
------------------------= -----------------------------------

"Observation of my life to dat= e shows
that the larger the number for whom I work,
the more positi= vely effective I become.
Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and= only
for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
  =              = -R. Buckminster Fuller

-------------------------------------------= ----------------
TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES
--------------------------= ---------------------------------

Say Good-Bye to Plastic: Trash T= hat Melts - Just Add Water

It could be the biggest thing since sli= ced bread was wrapped in
cellophane: biodegradable food packaging chea= p enough to compete
with conventional plastic. Once used, it can be th= rown onto the
compost heap or even eaten. This year, startup Plantic T= echnologies
will roll out a cornstarch-based bioplastic that can be mo= lded into
everything from Twinkie wrappers to cracker trays.
http:/= /www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=3D8

(Source: Wire= d.com)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
=
Thanksgiving Coffee Company Brews Coffee, Environmental
Protection= in One Cup

Thanksgiving Coffee Company, a California-based compan= y that
specializes in certified organic, fair trade, and shade-grown c= offees
and teas, has announced a new line of coffee that that will rai= se
funds to protect endangered species.
http://enn.com/news/enn-sto= ries/2002/07/07032002/s_47611.asp

(Source: Environmental News Netw= ork)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Computer, Heal Thyself

Self-healing and self-replicating circuit= s and chips mimic Mother
Nature at Villa Reuge museum in Sainte-Croix,= Switzerland.
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53729,00.h= tml/wn_ascii

(Source: Go Hotwired.com)
. . . . . . . . . . . . = . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Study Shows Eco-Efficiency Yie= lds Healthy Returns on
Pharmaceuticals=E2=80=99 Stock

Pharmaceu= tical companies with superior environmental performance
have outperfor= med laggards by 17 percent in the stock market over
the past year, acc= ording to a new study.
http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2002/07/0717200= 2/s_47758.asp

(Source: Environmental News Network)
. . . . . . = . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sales of Solar Cel= ls Take Off

Last year world solar cell production soared to 395 me= gawatts up
37 percent over 2000. This annual growth in output, now com= parable
in size to a new power plant, is set to take off in the years = ahead
as production costs fall.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/= features/feature_template.cfm?ID=3D826

(Source: Sustainable Busine= ss.com)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
'Consumption Barometer' to Help Keep Johannesburg Summit Green
Delegates to the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development
in= Johannesburg will be able to consult a "consumption barometer"
offeri= ng a daily update on how much food, water, energy, paper, and
other re= sources they use.
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=3D= 20933

(Source: BreenBiz.com)

------------------------------= -----------------------------
RESOURCES
---------------------------= --------------------------------

Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits
This research paper by the Rocky Mountain Institute explores thecost-effectiveness of using fuel cells to generate domestic,
commerci= al, and industrial power. "Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits"
finds that= , over the next decade, the once-centralized electric
industry will ev= olve toward a more competitive and heterogeneous
structure. In this ne= w environment, the use of fuel cells will become
economical if their p= roponents can capture their benefits as small,
decentralized power sou= rces.

http://www.greenbiz.com/toolbox/tools_third.cfm?LinkAdvID=3D= 24949
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<= BR>Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy,
Resou= rce-Efficient Homes

By following "green" principles, home builders= can design comfortable,
environmentally friendly homes that will yiel= d significant savings on
utility bills for their owners. The Green Bui= lding Guidelines is full of
useful design tips, explanations, and refe= rences on topics ranging from
energy conservation to improved indoor a= ir quality to the most
inexpensive and sustainable construction materi= als. If you=C2=B9ve ever
dreamed of building the perfect green home, t= his book is a valuable
blueprint for getting started.

http://ww= w.sbicouncil.org/home/index.html

---------------------------------= --------------------------
EVENTS
---------------------------------= --------------------------

Sustainable Living Workshop

Augu= st 5-9 2002
Real Goods Solar Living Institute
Hopland , CA US
Permaculture; Passive Solar and Ecological Design; Sustainable
Waste= water Design; Beginning Photovoltaics.

707-744-2017
isl@rgisl.o= rg
http://www.solarliving.org
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .= . . . . . . . . . . .

U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Developmen= t

August 26 - September 4, 2002
Johannesburg, South Africa
<= BR>Johannesburg Summit 2002=E2=80=B9the World Summit on Sustainable
De= velopment=E2=80=B9will bring together tens of thousands of participants,<= BR>including heads of State and Government, national delegates and
lea= ders from non-governmental organizations  (NGOs), businesses
and = other Major Groups. The Summit will focus the world=C2=B9s attention
o= n actions to achieve sustainable development.
(Read the current issue = of our Trimtab newsletter for more about the
Summit.)

http://ww= w.johannesburgsummit.org

-----------------------------------------= ------------------
BFI UPDATE
-------------------------------------= ----------------------

Our Summer Trimtab Newsletter Now Online!
Visit our home page (http://www.bfi.org) to read articles from our<= BR>current issue of the Trimtab, or follow the links to download the pdf = file.

Our special focus in this issue is the upcoming United Natio= ns World
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Afri= ca:
- a speech by Secretary General of the U.N., Mr. Kofi Annan
- i= nformation about the World Sustainability Hearing
- resources related = to the Summit

Also in this issue:
- an article on the Eden Proj= ect, the geodesic dome biomes in England
- Meet the BFI Board
- Upd= ates on the EARTHscope
- E. O. Wilson's "The Future of Life"

--= ---------------------------------------------------------
Are you BFI = member?
If you enjoyed this e-bulletin and want to support our work,you can say so with a tax-deductible donation which automatically
ma= kes you a BFI member. Member donations make it possible for us to
brin= g you this information and more.
Donate online at https://www.websites= ecured.com/~bfi.org/member.asp
or call us at 707-824-2242.

Memb= ers receive:
- a yearly subscription to our newsletter, Trimtab;
- = 10% discount on all product purchases (visit our online store at
http:= //www.bfi.org/search.html);
- periodic special offers!
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The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is a 501 (c)(3) no= nprofit
organization comprised of a diverse group of individuals commi= tted
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T= o learn more about our work, please visit http://www.bfi.org.

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= ------=_NextPart_001_0022_01C23978.4E20DAF0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 08:58:17 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72FwG2D013423 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id LAA03539 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:40:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe153.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.146]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03535 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:40:14 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.5] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Giant Black Holes in Collision Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:39:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A19.530E8890" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 15:40:14.0259 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4E60830:01C23A3A] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A19.530E8890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" GIANT BLACK HOLES IN COLLISION ------------------------------ One of the more spectacular phenomena in the cosmos might just be the collision of supermassive black holes that accompanies the merger of galaxies. But the astronomical community has not had definitive proof that these black holes are actually coming together. For the first time, astronomers have now produced a convincing mathematical model that offers the strongest support to date for the idea that the black holes merge when their host galaxies do. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/02blackholes/ ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A19.530E8890 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
GIANT BLACK HO= LES IN COLLISION
------------------------------
One of = the more spectacular phenomena in the cosmos might just be the
collis= ion of supermassive black holes that accompanies the merger of
galaxi= es.  But the astronomical community has not had definitive
proof= that these black holes are actually coming together. For the
first t= ime, astronomers have now produced a convincing mathematical
model th= at offers the strongest support to date for the idea that the
black h= oles merge when their host galaxies do.

    http://= spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/02blackholes/


------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A19.530E8890-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 09:59:49 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72Gxm2D031592 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA03662 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:46:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe146.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.139]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03658 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:45:53 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.5] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Article on Boeing antigravity project Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:45:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23A22.7EA5A840" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 16:45:53.0578 (UTC) FILETIME=[10EA68A0:01C23A44] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23A22.7EA5A840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Includes link to major paper on subject: http://www.spacer.com/news/rocketscience-02t.html ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23A22.7EA5A840 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23A22.7EA5A840-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 10:11:00 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72HAx2D026808 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA03708 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:58:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe6.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.86]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03698; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:57:13 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.157.5] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Doug Vakoch radio interview on Conversing with ETI Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:56:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A24.14787EF0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 16:57:13.0594 (UTC) FILETIME=[A63C9DA0:01C23A45] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A24.14787EF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Transcript and audio file at this URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/ ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A24.14787EF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A24.14787EF0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 11:30:56 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72IUs2D014364 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA03905 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:15:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe73.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.215]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03901 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:15:20 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.158] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: [Spaceref-daily] SpaceRef Newsletter - 2 August 2002 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:14:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A2E.F8289130" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 18:15:20.0035 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F92C330:01C23A50] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A2E.F8289130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: spaceref-daily-admin@apollo.aterra.com Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:07 PM To: spaceref-daily@apollo.aterra.com Subject: [Spaceref-daily] SpaceRef Newsletter - 2 August 2002 SpaceRef - Your Space Reference http://www.spaceref.com/ ___________________________________________________________ THE DAY IN SPACE ________________ In today's space news from SpaceRef: -- Space Shuttle Fleet Set for Return to Flight Sept. 28 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8940 Following an extensive investigation into the cause of tiny cracks inside= fuel lines of the four space shuttle orbiters, NASA today announced the team is ready to resume preparations f= or launching on Sept. 28, with Atlantis up first on an assembly mission to the International Space Stati= on (ISS). -- Australian-American duo shows black holes in collision http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8946 -- Scientists Detect "Smoking Gun" of Colliding Black Holes http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8945 -- Black Holes' Fatal Attraction Triggers Galaxies' Change of Heart http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8941 Images from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) rad= io telescope have uncovered compelling evidence that supermassive black holes at the hearts of large= galaxies collide when their host galaxies merge. -- U.S. Senate Confirms Frederick D. Gregory NASA's First African- Americ= an Deputy Administrator http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8939 The U.S. Senate late Thursday confirmed Frederick D. Gregory as NASA Dep= uty Administrator. Gregory, a veteran Space Shuttle commander who previously served as the Associate = Administrator for Space Flight, is set to become the agency's first African-American deputy. -- The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6126 A paper published in Icarus in 1999, "The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere," i= s now suffering a perhapsappropriate fate for a paper with such a pretentious title. The pa= per suggests that an interesting and unique climatological effect may play a role on Pluto, but also state= s repeatedly that the conclusions are highly preliminary and based on a number of assumptions. STATUS REPORTS ______________ For more status reports click here: http://www.spaceref.com/news/statusreports.html ISS On-Orbit Status 2 Aug 2002 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6127 ISS Science Operations Status Report for week ending August 1, 2002 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6125 ISS On-Orbit Status 1 Aug 2002 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6124 France In Space #212 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6123 AIP FYI #91: Senate VA/HUD Bill: NASA FY 2003 Appropriations http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6120 ___________________________________________________ Do you use a Palm Pilot or other hand held device? If so try the SpaceRef AvantGo Channel and take the news wherever you go. http://www.spaceref.com/gomobile.html ___________________________________________________ PRESS RELEASES ______________ For more press releases click here: http://www.spaceref.com/news/press.html WVU chemist seeks to make outer space events easy to predict http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8948 U-M scientists to develop nanosensors for astronaut http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8947 'New' material for Shuttle's Reusable Solid Rocket Motor to be tested Aug= . 1 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8944 NASA representatives visit S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Ener= gia http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8943 Huntsville area special needs students get 'FAST' career experience at NA= SA's Marshall Center http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8942 Letter to Rep. Weldon from Sen. Nelson and Sen. Graham regarding VA-HUD = language http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8938 Canada's First Space Telescope Unveiled http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8937 Prisentation du premier tilescope spatial canadien http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8936 Satellites Reveal a Mystery of Large Change in Earth's Gravity Field http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8935 Select NASA News Releases Now Available in Russian http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8934 Huntsville area special needs students get 'FAST' career experience at NA= SA's Marshall Center http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8933 July 2002 Space Launch Initiative http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8932 Space Shuttle Status News Conference on NASA TV Aug. 2 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8931 ESO Press Release 14/02: Observations of Brown Dwarfs http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8930 Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8929 Astrium Selected for Aeolus http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8928 Researchers Measure Antarctic Ice Shelf Tides from Space for the First Ti= me http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8927 The Planetary Society Funds Sky Watchers http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8926 HELLAS-SAT, A Satellite for the Olympics http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8925 Variable Thrust Solid Rocket Motor Tests Successfully http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8924 _______________________________________________________________ To remove yourself from this mailing list click the link below; http://www.spaceref.com/goremove.html _______________________________________________________________ SpaceRef is a privately held company based out of Reston, Virginia, U.S.A. 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-- Space Shuttle Fleet Set for Ret= urn to Flight Sept. 28
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D= 8940

Following an extensive investigation into the cause of tiny c= racks inside fuel lines of the four space shuttle
orbiters, NASA today= announced the team is ready to resume preparations for launching on Sept= . 28, with
Atlantis up first on an assembly mission to the Internation= al Space Station (ISS).


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-- Black Holes' Fatal A= ttraction Triggers Galaxies' Change of Heart
http://www.spaceref.com/n= ews/viewpr.html?pid=3D8941

Images from the National Science Founda= tion's Very Large Array (VLA)  radio telescope have uncovered
com= pelling evidence that supermassive  black holes at the hearts of lar= ge galaxies collide when their host
galaxies merge.


-- U.S.= Senate Confirms Frederick D. Gregory NASA's First African- American Depu= ty Administrator
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The U.S. Senate late Thursday confirmed Frederick D.  Gregory = as NASA Deputy Administrator. Gregory, a
veteran  Space Shuttle c= ommander who previously served as the  Associate Administrator for S= pace Flight,
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-- The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere
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A paper  published in Icarus= in 1999, "The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere," is now suffering a
perhaps= appropriate fate for a paper with such a pretentious title. The paper sug= gests that an interesting
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France In Space #212
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AIP FYI #91: Senate VA/HUD Bill: NASA FY 2003 Appropria= tions
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WVU chemist seeks to mak= e outer space events easy to predict
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U-M scientists to develop nanosensors for astro= naut
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8947

'New' = material for Shuttle's Reusable Solid Rocket Motor to be tested Aug. 1http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8944

NASA represen= tatives visit S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
http:/= /www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8943

Huntsville area spec= ial needs students get 'FAST' career experience at NASA's Marshall Center=
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Canada'= s First Space Telescope Unveiled
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Huntsville area special needs students get 'FAST' career expe= rience at NASA's Marshall Center
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July 2002 Space Launch Initiative
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Space Shuttle Status News Co= nference on NASA TV Aug. 2
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pi= d=3D8931

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= http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8930

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Astrium Selected for Aeolus
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------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A2E.F8289130-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 11:43:24 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72IhN2D010021 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA03938 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:21:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe136.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.129]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03933 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:21:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:20:37 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.158] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:20:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23A2F.B4AAC6C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 18:20:37.0976 (UTC) FILETIME=[4D14B580:01C23A51] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23A2F.B4AAC6C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: cassini@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:47 PM To: Cassini Spacecraft Updates Subject: Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02 Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Tuesday, July 30. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on the present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the "Present Position" web page located at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/english/where/ . On board activities this week included uplink of real-time commands to read out data from the AACS Stellar Reference Unit table, and clear the AACS High Water marks. Additional instrument activities included calibrations of the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) High Frequency Receiver, Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) periodic instrument maintenance, and instrument flight software normalization for RPWS and UVIS. The data from the 2002 Solar Conjunction Experiment performed in June and July have been processed, and preliminary analysis shows a successful investigation, despite initial problems with the ground instrument. An estimation of the effect has been determined and will be refined as the data are calibrated further. One of the goals of the Cassini Solar Conjunction Experiment is to measure the effect of the solar gravity on the path of electromagnetic radiation. Propagating photons of the radio signal are deflected and delayed by the sun. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, this was measured during a solar eclipse in 1919 as the first experimental test of General Relativity. A violation of General Relativity might be due to scalar fields remnant of the Big Bang, and its detection would have crucial implications in physics. Cassini can measure the gravitational deflection utilizing a highly accurate Doppler system at X- and Ka-bands, potentially to a level of one hundred times better than past experiments. The Multi-mission Image Processing Laboratory software version 28 was installed for operations use this week. This delivery supports Cassini cruise and is the first of three phased implementations to include support for tour. Also included are ground processing updates to support changes to VIMS flight software, Video Information Communication and Retrieval multi-mission routines for project recognition, and label decoding and camera parameter updates to support Cassini. With this change, Cassini gains access to numerous image analysis tools. Instrument Operations (IO) personnel attended a Planetary Data System (PDS) Management Council meeting. Cassini archive status was presented, and a discussion held on archive challenges from a project point of view. PDS provided a demonstration of the new PDS archive and distribution system. The IO representative was very impressed and recommended a demonstration also be given at the next Cassini Project Science Group Meeting to be held at JPL in October 2002. During the transition from reaction wheel to thruster control last week, the Attitude Control team used the opportunity to perform a friction test on the reaction wheels. The test carefully examined the "spin down" characteristics of each of the wheels. The team has processed the data and concluded that the reaction wheels are continuing to perform normally. A series of meetings has been held to plan the implementation of Prime/Rider instrument coordination within Cassini. The preliminary results will be presented at next week's Instrument Operations Working Group meeting. Uplink Operations hosted an SSR Management Tool (SMT) development meeting to work with the Spacecraft Office (SCO), Science Planning, and Mission Planning on determining what updates will be included in the D9.0 delivery of SMT. System Engineering (SE) has completed work with the SCO CDS Team to clean up the flight rule (FR) allocation matrix, prioritize FR fixes in software, and review the sequence checklist. Similar activities for the remaining SCO subsystems are in work. In addition, SE presented a proposal for Level 4 Verification and Validation plans at the System Engineering Round Table meeting. Mission Assurance convened a quarterly Risk Team meeting to assess the remaining six cruise risks as well as risks associated with the Huygen's Probe mission. Several new risks were identified, existing risk descriptions were refined, and action was taken by the Spacecraft Office to rework Probe Mission risks completely. Quarterly meetings are part of the on-going Risk Management process on Cassini during Flight Operations. The Cassini Program Outreach Team has selected a vendor to produce the planetarium show "RingWorld." The show will debut in January 2003. Produced in multiple formats, it will be made available to over 950 planetariums in the USA, as well as community colleges, schools, youth groups, and online via the Cassini web site. A Spanish language translation of this show will also be produced. A portion of the show will talk about the Deep Space Network. The DSN will cost share and place a copy of this show in their visitor centers in Australia, California, and Spain. Cassini Outreach has updated the Titan Landing Site graphic to reflect the new landing site and date for the Huygens Mission. This new graphic has a reference number of P-50940, and is available through Finley-Holiday at http://finley-holiday.com or by calling (800)345-6707. The image will be placed on the gallery portion of the Cassini web site, and will also be part of Huygens related slide sets. 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. Cassini Outreach Cassini Mission to Saturn and Titan Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology National Aeronautics and Space Administration --- To unsubscribe from Cassini Spacecraft Updates, send a message to leave-c= assini-2356933A@list.jpl.nasa.gov --- Visit the JPL Cassini home page for more information about the Cassini Pr= oject: ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23A2F.B4AAC6C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: cassini@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent:= Friday, August 02, 2002 1:47 PM
To: Cassini Spacecraft Updates
Subject: Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02
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Cassini Significant Events
for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldston= e
tracking station on Tuesday, July 30.  The Cassini spacecraft i= s in an
excellent state of health and is operating normally.  Inf= ormation on the
present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft m= ay be found on the
"Present Position" web page located at
http://sa= turn.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/english/where/ .

On board activities thi= s week included uplink of real-time commands to
read out data from the= AACS Stellar Reference Unit table, and clear the
AACS High Water mark= s.  Additional instrument activities included
calibrations of the= Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) High Frequency
Receiver, Ultravi= olet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) periodic instrument
maintenance, and = instrument flight software normalization for RPWS and
UVIS.

The= data from the 2002 Solar Conjunction Experiment performed in June
and= July have been processed, and preliminary analysis shows a
successful= investigation, despite initial problems with the ground
instrument.&n= bsp; An estimation of the effect has been determined and will be
refin= ed as the data are calibrated further.

One of the goals of the Cas= sini Solar Conjunction Experiment is to
measure the effect of the sola= r gravity on the path of electromagnetic
radiation. Propagating photon= s of the radio signal are deflected and
delayed by the sun. Predicted = by Einstein in 1916, this was measured
during a solar eclipse in 1919 = as the first experimental test of General
Relativity.  A violatio= n of General Relativity might be due to scalar
fields remnant of the B= ig Bang, and its detection would have crucial
implications in physics.=   Cassini can measure the gravitational
deflection utilizing a hi= ghly accurate Doppler system at X- and
Ka-bands, potentially to a leve= l of one hundred times better than past
experiments.

The Multi-= mission Image Processing Laboratory software version 28 was
installed = for operations use this week. This delivery supports Cassini
cruise an= d is the first of three phased implementations to include
support for = tour.   Also included are ground processing updates to
suppo= rt changes to VIMS flight software, Video Information Communication
an= d Retrieval multi-mission routines for project recognition, and label
= decoding and camera parameter updates to support Cassini. With this
ch= ange, Cassini gains access to numerous image analysis tools.

Instr= ument Operations (IO) personnel attended a Planetary Data System
(PDS)= Management Council meeting. Cassini archive status was presented,
and= a discussion held on archive challenges from a project point of
view.=   PDS provided a demonstration of the new PDS archive and
distrib= ution system.  The IO representative was very impressed and
recom= mended a demonstration also be given at the next Cassini Project
Scien= ce Group Meeting to be held at JPL in October 2002.

During the tra= nsition from reaction wheel to thruster control last week,
the Attitud= e Control team used the opportunity to perform a friction
test on the = reaction wheels. The test carefully examined the "spin down"
character= istics of each of the wheels. The team has processed the data
and conc= luded that the reaction wheels are continuing to perform
normally.
=
A series of meetings has been held to plan the implementation of
P= rime/Rider instrument coordination within Cassini. The preliminary
res= ults will be presented at next week's Instrument Operations Working
Gr= oup meeting.

Uplink Operations hosted an SSR Management Tool (SMT)= development
meeting to work with the Spacecraft Office (SCO), Science= Planning, and
Mission Planning on determining what updates will be in= cluded in the
D9.0 delivery of SMT.

System Engineering (SE) has= completed work with the SCO CDS Team to
clean up the flight rule (FR)= allocation matrix, prioritize FR fixes in
software, and review the se= quence checklist. Similar activities for the
remaining SCO subsystems = are in work.  In addition, SE presented a
proposal for Level 4 Ve= rification and Validation plans at the System
Engineering Round Table = meeting.

Mission Assurance convened a quarterly Risk Team meeting = to assess the
remaining six cruise risks as well as risks associated w= ith the Huygen's
Probe mission.  Several new risks were identifie= d, existing risk
descriptions were refined, and action was taken by th= e Spacecraft Office
to rework Probe Mission risks completely. Quarterl= y meetings are part of
the on-going Risk Management process on Cassini= during Flight
Operations.

The Cassini Program Outreach Team ha= s selected a vendor to produce the
planetarium show "RingWorld." = The show will debut in January 2003.
Produced in multiple formats, it= will be made available to over 950
planetariums in the USA, as well a= s community colleges, schools, youth
groups, and online via the Cassin= i web site.  A Spanish language
translation of this show will als= o be produced. A portion of the show
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Cassini Ou= treach has updated the Titan Landing Site graphic to reflect
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Cassini= web site, and will also be part of Huygens related slide sets.

Ca= ssini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and
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------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23A2F.B4AAC6C0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 11:44:07 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72Ii62D011826 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA03979 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:31:10 -0400 (EDT) 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 OAA03975 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:30:36 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.158] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:30:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A31.1D58C2C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 18:30:36.0683 (UTC) FILETIME=[B1F025B0:01C23A52] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A31.1D58C2C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: spaceupdate@SPACE.COM Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:35 AM To: SPACECOM-TEXTS@LISTSERV.SPACE.COM Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002 Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- V: The Final Battle The Ultimate Sci-Fi Miniseries Is Now On DVD For The First Time Ever! Th= at saga that began with V now culminates in a struggle to save the world = in V: The Final Battle. The future begins or ends here. http://www.scifi.com/v/dvd/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Closet Star Cluster: The Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern * Study Supports Idea that Giant Black Holes Merge * Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging SpaceFlight: * 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Shuttle Program * NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in September * NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon Business/Industry: * Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * NASA Videos Get the complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library for yourself or a friend to= day! http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Closet Star Cluster: The Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern http://www.space.com/spacewatch/coat_hanger_020802.html One of the most pleasing sky sights through binoculars or a small telesco= pe can be found nearly overhead in our late evening midsummer sky. With t= he Moon out of the way this week, it is a good time to seek it out. * Study Supports Idea that Giant Black Holes Merge http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_collide_020801.html Astronomers have long suspected that when galaxies collide, their central= black holes could merge. A new computer model provides some of the most = compelling evidence to date that such colossal collisions do indeed take = place, about once a year. * Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/equator_bulge_020801.html Something strange has been going on under our feet for the past four year= s. Earth's gravity field suddenly shifted gears and began getting flatter= , reversing a course of centuries during which the planet and its gravity= field grew rounder each year. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Shuttle Program http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_ap_020801.html Did a 27-year-old with perfect vision and admitted pickiness help prevent= disaster on the space shuttle? * NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in September http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_update_020801.html NASA managers on Friday are expected to formally bless a plan that would = lead to a repaired shuttle Atlantis launching in late September, followed= by Endeavour in November and Columbia some time after that. * NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/robotic_moon_020801.html Scientists have called for NASA to mount a robotic return mission to the = far side of the moon to collect samples from the solar system's own "big = dig" - the oldest and deepest impact crater basin known. This giant site = is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Australian researchers should know within days whether or not their July = 30 test flight of a supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, was succes= sful. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.spacejobs.com/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 2, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate. Isolated M-class flares are ex= pected from Regions 39 and 44. Either region could produce a major flare = during the period. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled levels = Wednesday. Field activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active = levels Thursday and Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 297, and the solar wind speed recently cloc= ked in at 455 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 2.0 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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Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002
 
Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002 -- http= ://www.space.com/

In today's issue:

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

V: The Final Battle
The Ultimate Sci-Fi Miniser= ies Is Now On DVD For The First Time Ever!  That saga that began wit= h V now culminates in a struggle to save the world in V: The Final Battle= . The future begins or ends here.
http://www.scifi.com/v/dvd/

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

Featured Space Store Product=
* NASA Videos

Science/Astronomy:
* Closet Star Cluster: The= Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern
* Study Supports Idea that Giant Bla= ck Holes Merge
* Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator = is Bulging

SpaceFlight:
* 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Sh= uttle Program
* NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in S= eptember
* NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon

Business/I= ndustry:
* Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight

Plus= ...

* SpaceTV, SpaceWatch
* Solar and Space Weather
* Starry= Night, TeamSETI
* Space Age Jobs

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Ge= t the complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library for yourself or a friend toda= y!
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Today in Science/Astronomy:

* Closet Star Cluster:= The Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/= coat_hanger_020802.html

One of the most pleasing sky sights throug= h binoculars or a small telescope can be found nearly overhead in our lat= e evening midsummer sky. With the Moon out of the way this week, it is a = good time to seek it out.

* Study Supports Idea that Giant Black H= oles Merge
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_collide_020= 801.html

Astronomers have long suspected that when galaxies collid= e, their central black holes could merge. A new computer model provides s= ome of the most compelling evidence to date that such colossal collisions= do indeed take place, about once a year.

* Mysterious Shift in Ea= rth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging
http://www.space.com/science= astronomy/equator_bulge_020801.html

Something strange has been goi= ng on under our feet for the past four years. Earth's gravity field sudde= nly shifted gears and began getting flatter, reversing a course of centur= ies during which the planet and its gravity field grew rounder each year.=

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

Today in SpaceFlight:<= BR>
* 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Shuttle Program
http://www= .space.com/missionlaunches/sts_ap_020801.html

Did a 27-year-old wi= th perfect vision and admitted pickiness help prevent disaster on the spa= ce shuttle?

* NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in= September
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_update_020801.html=

NASA managers on Friday are expected to formally bless a plan tha= t would lead to a repaired shuttle Atlantis launching in late September, = followed by Endeavour in November and Columbia some time after that.
<= BR>* NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon
http://www.space.com/mi= ssionlaunches/robotic_moon_020801.html

Scientists have called for = NASA to mount a robotic return mission to the far side of the moon to col= lect samples from the solar system's own "big dig" - the oldest and deepe= st impact crater basin known. This giant site is known as South Pole-Aitk= en Basin.

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

Today in Bus= iness/Industry:

* Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight<= BR>http://www.space.com/spacenews/

Australian researchers should k= now within days whether or not their July 30 test flight of a supersonic = combustion ramjet, or scramjet, was successful.

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SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 2, 2002)

3-Day= Solar Forecast
Solar activity is expected to be moderate. Isolated M-= class flares are expected from Regions 39 and 44. Either region could pro= duce a major flare during the period.

3-Day Aurora Forecast
Ear= th's geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled levels Wed= nesday. Field activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active lev= els Thursday and Friday.

Solar Data
The current sunspot number = is 297, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 455 kilometers pe= r second.

The solar wind density was 2.0 protons per cubic centime= ter.

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------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A31.1D58C2C0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 11:56:52 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g72Iup2D021258 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA04013 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:40:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe54.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.134]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA04004; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:40:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:39:32 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.158] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, July 30, 2002 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:39:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23A32.5E953DD0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 18:39:32.0260 (UTC) FILETIME=[F12AB640:01C23A53] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23A32.5E953DD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today in Science/Astronomy: * SMART Science: Europeans Prepare for First Mission to the Moon http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/smart_science_020730.html We've visited it in person. We've studied it with robots in orbit. We've = even crashed into it on purpose to try and kick up something interesting.= Yet our nearest celestial neighbor the Moon still holds mysteries. * Rare Earth Debate Part 5: Elusive ET http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_5_020729.html This five-part debate has covered a variety of topics prompted by the hyp= othesis of "Rare Earth," a book by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee that su= ggests complex life may be unique to Earth. * NASA Scientists Call British Media's Asteroid Hype Unethical Rubbish http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_scare_020729-1.html A small asteroid threat hyped to gloom-and-doom proportions by British me= dia last week has left several U.S. scientists frustrated and fuming over= what they call misleading and unethical stories that frightened readers = unnecessarily. Meanwhile, a British reporter defends the stories, a Briti= sh astronomer wonders what all the fuss is about and another suggests Ame= rican scientists are too complacent about the danger. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status Report on Red Planet = Plans http://www.space.com/news/mars_czar_020730.html NASA is shaping plans for the next decade to dot Mars with highly capable= robotic craft, including a probe that rockets back to Earth samples of M= artian terrain. * New Image Gallery: Space Stations as Art http://www.space.com/spaceviews/ The stunning art of John Frassanito and Associates offers glimpses at Mir= , the International Space Station and future homes for astronauts. ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23A32.5E953DD0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Today in Scien= ce/Astronomy:

* SMART Science: Europeans Prepare for First Mission= to the Moon
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/smart_science_02073= 0.html

We've visited it in person. We've studied it with robots in= orbit. We've even crashed into it on purpose to try and kick up somethin= g interesting. Yet our nearest celestial neighbor the Moon still holds my= steries.

* Rare Earth Debate Part 5: Elusive ET
http://www.spac= e.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_5_020729.html

This five-part deb= ate has covered a variety of topics prompted by the hypothesis of "Rare E= arth," a book by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee that suggests complex lif= e may be unique to Earth.

* NASA Scientists Call British Media's A= steroid Hype Unethical Rubbish
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/a= steroid_scare_020729-1.html

A small asteroid threat hyped to gloom= -and-doom proportions by British media last week has left several U.S. sc= ientists frustrated and fuming over what they call misleading and unethic= al stories that frightened readers unnecessarily. Meanwhile, a British re= porter defends the stories, a British astronomer wonders what all the fus= s is about and another suggests American scientists are too complacent ab= out the danger.

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

Today i= n SpaceFlight:

* Orlando Figueroa: NASA's Mars Czar Gives a Status= Report on Red Planet Plans
http://www.space.com/news/mars_czar_020730= .html

NASA is shaping plans for the next decade to dot Mars with h= ighly capable robotic craft, including a probe that rockets back to Earth= samples of Martian terrain.

* New Image Gallery: Space Stations a= s Art
http://www.space.com/spaceviews/

The stunning art of John= Frassanito and Associates offers glimpses at Mir,
the International S= pace Station and future homes for astronauts.

------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23A32.5E953DD0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 18:17:16 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g731HE2D025695 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id VAA04633 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:04:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe59.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.201]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04629 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:04:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:03:31 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: What's New for Aug 02, 2002 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:03:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A68.00DFC530" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 01:03:31.0061 (UTC) FILETIME=[955CC250:01C23A89] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A68.00DFC530 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: What's New Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:15 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: What's New for Aug 02, 2002 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 2 Aug 02 Washington, DC 1. ANTI-GRAVITY: A GRAVITY SHIELD WOULD BE VERY NICE, BUT... Never has an idea with no prospect for success so captivated corporate research managers who either never studied or never understood the most basic laws of physics. Both Boeing in the US and BAE Systems, the British aerospace giant, are trying to make the Podkletnov gravity shield work. BAE has already been at it for two years (WN 31 Mar 00), with no success. When NASA couldn't make the Podkletnov shield work, they invested another million dollars (WN 22 Jan 99). When it still didn't work, they decided the tests were "inconclusive" and sank another mil into it (WN 12 Oct 01). I have identified seven warning signs of bad science http://www.bobpark.com. The Podkletnov gravity shield fits all seven. So why would Boeing choose to spend millions to test a ridiculous claim by an obscure Russian physicist that has failed every test and is a physical impossibility to begin with? OK, so the Pentagon is paying for it. But there's also this goofy book by Nick Cook, who writes for Jane's Defense Weekly. 2. BOOK REVIEW: "THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT," by NICK COOK. If this book is about controlling gravity, what's with the "zero point"? The confusion is natural; both lie within the province of fringe scientists who haven't a clue of where the real world stops and the fantasy world of Atlantis and UFO's begins. Cook is not a scientist of any sort; in his world, these guys are the insiders. Don't look for them in the pages of Phys Rev; they're not a bunch of pointy-headed academics. They are part of the black world of really important top secret stuff like -- well, electrogravitics. So who exactly fed Nick Cook this enormous pile of horse manure? If you're a regular reader of WN, you've already met them all. 3. FRINGE: WHERE EVERYTHING IS SECRET, AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. When Cook set out on his search for "the biggest secret since the atom bomb," he went straight to the Integrity Research Institute, in Washington, DC, where you can buy books and videos with titles like "Holistic Physics and Consciousness" (WN 5 Mar 99). IRI is really Tom Valone, a former patent examiner who lost his job in the fallout from the Conference on Free Energy (WN 21 May 99). He had recruited Paul LaViolette, who claims the B-2 uses anti- gravity, reverse engineered from a crashed flying saucer. He was also fired (WN 18 Aug 00). They sent Cook to the Institute for Advanced Study. Not the one in Princeton; the one in Austin, TX. It consists of Harold Puthoff, who wants to extract energy from the zero point of the vacuum. He used to run the CIA's "remote viewing" program, which was inspired by "Mind Reach," a book he wrote with Russell Targ (WN 11 Mar 94). Finally, Cook sought advice from Charles Platt, founder of CryoCare, a company that keeps human heads bobbing in liquid nitrogen until scientists can figure out how to restart them (WN 21 Jul 00). 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_01C23A68.00DFC530 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: What's New
Sent: Friday, A= ugust 02, 2002 5:15 PM
To: l= jk4@msn.com
Subject: What's = New for Aug 02, 2002
 
WHAT'S NEW   Robert= L. Park   Friday, 2 Aug 02   Washington, DC

1= . ANTI-GRAVITY: A GRAVITY SHIELD WOULD BE VERY NICE, BUT...
Never has = an idea with no prospect for success so captivated
corporate research = managers who either never studied or never
understood the most basic l= aws of physics.  Both Boeing in the US
and BAE Systems, the Briti= sh aerospace giant, are trying to make
the Podkletnov gravity shield w= ork.  BAE has already been at it
for two years (WN 31 Mar 00), wi= th no success.  When NASA
couldn't make the Podkletnov shield wor= k, they invested another
million dollars (WN 22 Jan 99).  When it= still didn't work, they
decided the tests were "inconclusive" and san= k another mil into
it (WN 12 Oct 01).  I have identified seven wa= rning signs of bad
science http://www.bobpark.com.  The Podkletno= v gravity shield
fits all seven.  So why would Boeing choose to s= pend millions to
test a ridiculous claim by an obscure Russian physici= st that has
failed every test and is a physical impossibility to begin= with?
OK, so the Pentagon is paying for it.  But there's also th= is
goofy book by Nick Cook, who writes for Jane's Defense Weekly.
<= BR>2. BOOK REVIEW: "THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT," by NICK COOK.  If this=
book is about controlling gravity, what's with the "zero point"?
T= he confusion is natural; both lie within the province of fringe
scient= ists who haven't a clue of where the real world stops and
the fantasy = world of Atlantis and UFO's begins.  Cook is not a
scientist of a= ny sort; in his world, these guys are the insiders.
Don't look for the= m in the pages of Phys Rev; they're not a bunch
of pointy-headed acade= mics.  They are part of the black world of
really important top s= ecret stuff like -- well, electrogravitics.
So who exactly fed Nick Co= ok this enormous pile of horse manure?
If you're a regular reader of W= N, you've already met them all.

3. FRINGE: WHERE EVERYTHING IS SEC= RET, AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
When Cook set out on his search for "t= he biggest secret since the
atom bomb," he went straight to the Integr= ity Research Institute,
in Washington, DC, where you can buy books and= videos with titles
like "Holistic Physics and Consciousness" (WN 5 Ma= r 99).  IRI is
really Tom Valone, a former patent examiner who lo= st his job in
the fallout from the Conference on Free Energy (WN 21 Ma= y 99).
He had recruited Paul LaViolette, who claims the B-2 uses anti-=
gravity, reverse engineered from a crashed flying saucer.  He wa= s
also fired (WN 18 Aug 00).  They sent Cook to the Institute for=
Advanced Study.  Not the one in Princeton; the one in Austin, TX= .
It consists of Harold Puthoff, who wants to extract energy from
t= he zero point of the vacuum.  He used to run the CIA's "remote
vi= ewing" program, which was inspired by "Mind Reach," a book he
wrote wi= th Russell Targ (WN 11 Mar 94).  Finally, Cook sought
advice from= Charles Platt, founder of CryoCare, a company that
keeps human heads = bobbing in liquid nitrogen until scientists can
figure out how to rest= art them (WN 21 Jul 00).

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND and THE AMERIC= AN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily = shared by the
University or the American Physical Society, but they sh= ould be.
------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23A68.00DFC530-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 18:19:44 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g731Jh2D032210 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id VAA04649 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:06:42 -0400 (EDT) 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 VAA04644 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:06:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:06:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: S&T's Weekly News Bulletin for August 2nd Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:05:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23A68.5A9243A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 01:06:01.0964 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF4EBAC0:01C23A89] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23A68.5A9243A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: bulletins@SkyandTelescope.com Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 7:24 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: S&T's Weekly News Bulletin for August 2nd ========================================================================= * * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - August 2, 2002 * * * * ========================================================================= Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images, the full text of stories abridged here, and other enhancements are available on our Web site, SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided below. Clear skies! ========================================================================= NEW COMET HOENIG A comet first seen by a German amateur astronomer in July, then lost for five days, is about to become an easy target for small telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere. The nearly tailless object looks like a fuzzy, 10th-magnitude star, slowly making its way from Andromeda into Cassiopeia. It should brighten to 9th magnitude by mid-August as it enters the north circumpolar sky, then remain this bright through September while turning south across Ursa Major. It was shortly after midnight on July 22nd that Sebastian Hoenig of Dossenheim, Germany, found himself unable to sleep. So he got up, loaded his Meade 10-inch telescope into the car, and drove to his favorite observing site in the Odenwald woods near Heidelberg.... > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_685_1.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ANCIENT IMPACT CRATER FOUND IN NORTH SEA Amid heightened public awareness of close-call asteroids, scientists have produced evidence for a 60- to 65-million-year-old impact in the North Sea some 320 kilometers northeast of London. The 3-km-wide and 300-meter-deep Silverpit crater (so named after the local fishing grounds) came to light during analysis of 3-D seismic data from a gas field 4 km down. The finding was published in this week's Nature.... > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_684_1.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEW TECHNOLOGY DOMINATES PLANETARIUM CONFERENCE Despite concerns over stagnant attendance at numerous facilities, optimism about the future of planetariums remains high among participants of the 16th meeting of the International Planetarium Society that took place this past week at Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas. More than 400 delegates from planetariums around the world attended this biennial meeting that has a theme of "New Explorations...." > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_682_1.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AN INEXPENSIVE ROOFTOP FIREBALL PATROL The whole thing cost just more than $200, it requires virtually no maintenance except a once-a-month dusting, and it provides a useful service that hasn't been widely available before. And it may just be the start of something big: an all-sky, all-night fireball monitoring program. Edward Albin, an astronomer at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, built and set up the video system two months ago on the roof of his home just outside Atlanta (to avoid the city's light pollution at the science center itself).... > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_679_1.asp ========================================================================= HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY * New Moon is on August 8th. * The Perseid meteor shower will be approaching its peak at week's end. * Also at week's end, look for Mercury just right of due west in early twilight. For details, see This Week's Sky at a Glance and Planet Roundup: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance/ ========================================================================= STUNNING SPACE SCENES (Advertisement) Decorate your home or office with new, breathtaking Hubble Space Telescope images from Shop at Sky! Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) > http://SkyandTelescope.com/campaigns.asp?id=65 The Mice Galaxies (NGC 4676) > http://SkyandTelescope.com/campaigns.asp?id=64 Tadpole Galaxy (UGC 10214) > http://SkyandTelescope.com/campaigns.asp?id=63 ========================================================================= Copyright 2002 Sky Publishing Corp. S&T's Weekly News Bulletin is provided as a free service to the astronomical community by the editors of SKY & TELESCOPE magazine. Widespread electronic distribution is encouraged as long as our copyright notice is included, along with the words "used by permission." 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Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images,= the full text of stories
abridged here, and other enhancements are av= ailable on our Web site,
SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided bel= ow. Clear skies!

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

NEW COMET HOENIG

A comet first seen by a= German amateur astronomer in July, then lost for
five days, is about = to become an easy target for small telescopes in the
Northern Hemisphe= re. The nearly tailless object looks like a fuzzy,
10th-magnitude star= , slowly making its way from Andromeda into Cassiopeia.
It should brig= hten to 9th magnitude by mid-August as it enters the north
circumpolar= sky, then remain this bright through September while turning
south ac= ross Ursa Major.

It was shortly after midnight on July 22nd that S= ebastian Hoenig of
Dossenheim, Germany, found himself unable to sleep.= So he got up, loaded
his Meade 10-inch telescope into the car, and dr= ove to his favorite
observing site in the Odenwald woods near Heidelbe= rg....

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_685_1.= asp

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ANCIENT IMPACT CRATER FOUND IN NORTH SEA

Amid h= eightened public awareness of close-call asteroids, scientists have
pr= oduced evidence for a 60- to 65-million-year-old impact in the North Sea<= BR>some 320 kilometers northeast of London. The 3-km-wide and 300-meter-d= eep
Silverpit crater (so named after the local fishing grounds) came t= o light
during analysis of 3-D seismic data from a gas field 4 km down= . The
finding was published in this week's Nature....

> http= ://SkyandTelescope.com/news/current/article_684_1.asp

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NEW = TECHNOLOGY DOMINATES PLANETARIUM CONFERENCE

Despite concerns over = stagnant attendance at numerous facilities, optimism
about the future = of planetariums remains high among participants of the
16th meeting of= the International Planetarium Society that took place this
past week = at Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas. More than 400 delegates
from = planetariums around the world attended this biennial meeting that has
= a theme of "New Explorations...."

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/= news/current/article_682_1.asp

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AN INEXPENSIVE ROOFTOP FIRE= BALL PATROL

The whole thing cost just more than $200, it requires = virtually no
maintenance except a once-a-month dusting, and it provide= s a useful
service that hasn't been widely available before. And it ma= y just be the
start of something big: an all-sky, all-night fireball m= onitoring program.

Edward Albin, an astronomer at the Fernbank Sci= ence Center in Atlanta,
built and set up the video system two months a= go on the roof of his home
just outside Atlanta (to avoid the city's l= ight pollution at the science
center itself)....

> http://Sk= yandTelescope.com/news/current/article_679_1.asp

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

HIGHLIGHTS OF = THIS WEEK'S SKY

* New Moon is on August 8th.
* The Perseid mete= or shower will be approaching its peak at week's end.
* Also at week's= end, look for Mercury just right of due west in early
twilight.
For details, see This Week's Sky at a Glance and Planet Roundup:
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance/

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Copyright 2002 Sk= y Publishing Corp. S&T's Weekly News Bulletin is provided
as a fre= e service to the astronomical community by the editors of SKY &
TE= LESCOPE magazine. Widespread electronic distribution is encouraged as
= long as our copyright notice is included, along with the words "used bypermission." But this bulletin may not be published in any other formwithout written permission from Sky Publishing; send e-mail to
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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23A68.5A9243A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 18:20:06 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g731K52D013817 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id VAA04670 for bioastro-list; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:08:08 -0400 (EDT) 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 VAA04659; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:07:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:06:58 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Aurora Surprise Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:06:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23A68.7D5BE760" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 01:06:58.0599 (UTC) FILETIME=[11108B70:01C23A8A] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23A68.7D5BE760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: SpaceWeather.com Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:04 PM To: SpaceWeather.com Subject: Aurora Surprise Space Weather News for August 2, 2002 http://www.spaceweather.com An unexpected geomagnetic storm began on Thursday, August 1st, as night fell across North America. Sky watchers who happened to be outdoors spotted vivid auroras over both the United States and Canada. Some of their photos are lovely--you can see them at Spaceweather.com. Earth's magnetic field is quieting now, although high-latitude activity remains possible on Friday night, August 2nd. --- You are currently subscribed to spaceweather as: ljk4@msn.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-spaceweather-662747W@snglist.m= sfc.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23A68.7D5BE760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Space Weather News for August 2= , 2002
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An unexpected geomagnetic st= orm began on Thursday, August 1st, as night
fell across North America.= Sky watchers who happened to be outdoors
spotted vivid auroras over b= oth the United States and Canada.  Some of
their photos are lovel= y--you can see them at Spaceweather.com. Earth's
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------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23A68.7D5BE760-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 21:20:25 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g734KO2D024159 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id AAA05026 for bioastro-list; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:08:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe101.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.243]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05022 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:08:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:07:39 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: STARDUST Update - August 2, 2002 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:07:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A81.B9F81270" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 04:07:39.0257 (UTC) FILETIME=[4E99AE90:01C23AA3] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A81.B9F81270 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:46 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: STARDUST Update - August 2, 2002 STARDUST Status Report August 2, 2002 There was one Deep Space Network tracking pass, and a NSP (Network Simplication Project) track reported last week. All subsystems are performing normally. Analysis of the data from last week indicated that the NSP test of the radiometric and telemetry data was very successf= ul. Commands to deploy the aerogel grid were tested in the Spacecraft Test Laboratory on July 25th. These commands also move the spacecraft to the new interstellar collection position. As the commands simulated the spacecraft moving to the new position, an attitude controller fault was detected. This made the simulated spacecraft enter a safe mode. Analysis revealed that a configuration file providing the new position was corrupted. A new configuration file was built and the test repeated witho= ut any errors. Since the corrupted file was not understood until after a regularly scheduled track, the command files were not sent to the spacecraft at the time originally planned. An additional communications pass is scheduled, and the command files will be transmitted to the spacecraft. For more information on the Stardust mission -- the first ever comet samp= le return mission -- please visit the Stardust home page: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A81.B9F81270 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Friday, August 02, 2002 6:46 PM
= To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: STARDUST Update - August 2, 2002
 
&nb= sp;           &nbs= p;          STARDUST Status = Report
          &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;   August 2, 2002

There was one Deep Space Network tra= cking pass, and a NSP (Network
Simplication Project) track reported la= st week. All subsystems are
performing normally. Analysis of the data = from last week indicated
that the NSP test of the radiometric and tele= metry data was very successful.

Commands to deploy the aerogel gri= d were tested in the Spacecraft Test
Laboratory on July 25th. These co= mmands also move the spacecraft to
the new interstellar collection pos= ition. As the commands simulated the
spacecraft moving to the new posi= tion, an attitude controller fault was
detected. This made the simulat= ed spacecraft enter a safe mode. Analysis
revealed that a configuratio= n file providing the new position was
corrupted. A new configuration f= ile was built and the test repeated without
any errors.

Since t= he corrupted file was not understood until after a regularly
scheduled= track, the command files were not sent to the spacecraft at the
time = originally planned. An additional communications pass is scheduled,
an= d the command files will be transmitted to the spacecraft.

For mor= e information on the Stardust mission -- the first ever comet sample
r= eturn mission -- please visit the Stardust home page:

http://stard= ust.jpl.nasa.gov


------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23A81.B9F81270-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 22:08:53 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g7358q2D003794 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id AAA05093 for bioastro-list; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:56:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe32.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.112]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05089 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:56:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:56:10 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images - July 29 - August 2, 2002 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:55:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23A88.7EEBC8A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 04:56:10.0705 (UTC) FILETIME=[15F56410:01C23AAA] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23A88.7EEBC8A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:18 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images - July 29 - August 2, 2002 MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES July 29 - August 2, 2002 o Yardangs in Medusa Fossae (Released 29 July 2002 http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020729a.html o Poynting Crater Ejecta (Released 30 July 2002) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020730a.html o Medusae Fossae (Released 31 July 2002) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020731a.html o Enigmatic Terrain of Elysium Planitia (Released 1 August 2002) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020801a.html o Frosted Crater (Released 2 August 2002) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020802a.html All of the THEMIS images are archived here: http://themis.la.asu.edu/latest.html NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. ------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23A88.7EEBC8A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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o Yardangs in Medusa Fossae (Released 29 July 2002
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------=_NextPart_001_0009_01C23A88.7EEBC8A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 2 22:13:23 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g735DL2D000702 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:13:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id AAA05104 for bioastro-list; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:57:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe14.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.94]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05100 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:57:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:57:24 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.254] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Call for NASA Robotic Return Mission to the Moon Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:56:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A88.A9797DB0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2002 04:57:24.0834 (UTC) FILETIME=[42249420:01C23AAA] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23A88.A9797DB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Kellogg Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:05 PM To: lunar-update@lists.arc.nasa.gov Cc: lkellogg@mail.arc.nasa.gov Subject: Call for NASA Robotic Return Mission to the Moon Good day Calling out, but does anyone hear? You keep asking me why don't we go back to the Moon? - LRK ------ Scientists have called for NASA to mount a robotic return mission to the far side of the moon to collect samples from the solar system's own "big dig" - the oldest and deepest impact crater basin known. This giant site is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin. South Pole-Aitken basin is expected to offer clues not only about early lunar evolution, but Earth's formative years too. Studying lunar specimens dug up from this site and flung back to labs would bring back memories. That is, time capsule clues of just how severe and exactly when early Earth and Moon found themselves on a celestial hit list, suffering through a late and heavy bombardment of asteroids and comets. ------ Interesting article. - LRK - Should be something in there about needing a plan, funding a plan, executing a plan. - LRK - Do you really want to develop space? Is there a long range plan here for the whole Blue Marble? If you bring back more samples, will there be funding to examine them? If you aren't going to go back and use the resources, do you want spend the money on just science? What is in it for the kid down the block? Would it stop crime in the ghetto? - LRK - When you look up, what do you see? How far away can you look? Which way do I point my Direct TV dish? Why am I having trouble picking up Bangkok from Sunnyvale, CA? (works most of the time and Sangad can watch Thai kick boxing - LRK -) -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------- Pakistan needs to use its slot in GEO before it is taken away - why? - LR= K - http://www.pakobserver.net/july2002/06/editorial01.shtml PAKISTAN'S dream to have its own geo-stationary satellite into orbit is to become a reality when the PAKSAT becomes operational possibly on December 24, 2002. The Federal Cabinet has already approved acquisition of Hughes Global Systems Satellite (HGSS) on five-year lease and Minister for Science and Technology Dr Attaur Rehman, who is the moving force behind the project, has set clear-cut deadlines to ensure that Pakistan occupies its allotted slot of 38 degree East by repositioning of the commercial satellite. http://www.defencejournal.com/may98/economic1.htm With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and opening up of the Central Asian Republics, the whole Geo-political scenario has changed. The Central Asian Republics have more importance now, in the strategy of the world, especially in Asia than any other region of the world. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/2001/aug/news030801.htm The Asian GIS Portal http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8834 PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, July 15, 2002 Air Force Space Command News Service Military Perspectives on the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Threat SIMON P. WORDEN, BRIGADIER GENERAL, USAF Deputy Director for Operations United States Space Command Peterson AFB, CO July 10, 2002 The opinions and concepts expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the Department of Defense or the United States Space Command -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------- Can you see yourself on the Moon? - LRK - I need to put in a lawn, my house is the only one with brown weeds. Priorities. Think about it. - LRK - Larry =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D * NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/robotic_moon_020801.html NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 01 August 2002 Scientists have called for NASA to mount a robotic return mission to the far side of the moon to collect samples from the solar system's own "big dig" - the oldest and deepest impact crater basin known. This giant site is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin. South Pole-Aitken basin is expected to offer clues not only about early lunar evolution, but Earth's formative years too. Studying lunar specimens dug up from this site and flung back to labs would bring back memories. That is, time capsule clues of just how severe and exactly when early Earth and Moon found themselves on a celestial hit list, suffering through a late and heavy bombardment of asteroids and comets. NASA's rekindling of Moon exploration won't come easy. No doubt the science would be topnotch. But setting down an automated spacecraft safely at the lunar south pole, round up samples, then shoot the goods back to Earth is an easier said than done job. The space agency may well need to dust off and relearn lessons from the early 1960s into the 1970s. That's when robots ruled the Moon before and after Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot and flag there. Year-in-the-making strategy In early July, the prestigious National Research Council in Washington, D.C. released a seminal report: New Frontiers in the Solar System - An Integrated Exploration Strategy. The study is an intensive look at a decade's worth (2003-2013) of high priority space exploration projects. Requested by NASA, the year-in-the-making strategy was a major output from the planetary exploration community. High on their collective wish list was a sample return from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin. The farside South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin represents the principal major lunar terrain that remains unsampled, the NRC survey report observed. "Analysis of materials from the SPA basin thus is expected to provide key information regarding fundamental problems of the present-day surface of the Moon and its geologic history," the report explained. High-tech teething Pulling off such a spacecraft project would also offer engineers a bit of technological teething. "Such a sample-return mission -- i.e., one of moderate technical difficulty -- is an opportunity to gain relevant experience for much more complex sample-return missions from Mars and, ultimately, Venus," the report said. It's obvious that any autopilot Moon landing and return sample probe demands a heavy dose of high technology. Automated descent, hazard avoidance and precision landing gear is critical. So too is advanced on-the-spot sampling, maybe even drilling, age dating and chemical sensing sensors. Then there's requirement for sample transfer into an ascent vehicle and need for Earth-return hardware. Lastly, a relay satellite put in lunar orbit is also necessary for farside command and control of the spacecraft. Add all that up, this mission is sure to ring up a good-sized bill. Ball in NASA's court: love too? NASA officials were reportedly surprised and somewhat dismayed to learn of the NRC's robotic lunar sample return recommendation. Space agency officials, of course, could blow off the scientific community counsel, seeing it as misguided advice but that scenario doesn't appear likely. "The Moon is the cornerstone and keystone for our understanding of the terrestrial planets, including Earth," said James Head, planetary geologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. "It's a centerpiece, holding together the emerging arch of understanding about the planets," he told SPACE.com. Getting back to the Moon builds on the past, Head said, given the data yielded by both Apollo and past lunar robotic missions. "We can ask much more sophisticated questions of the Moon because of this important data base. This means that the return on our investment from further lunar exploration can potentially be much greater, and much more synergistic," he said. Head said that a farside sample mission to the South Pole-Aitken Basin floor could test models of giant impact basin formation, depth of excavation, crustal thickness, impact melt formation, lower crust and perhaps mantle composition, and other parameters. The ability to return samples from "the other half of the Moon", Head said, requires precursor technology development, ideal equipment for sampling other lunar locales and other airless bodies. First come, first served Lest anybody forget, automated landing, followed by touch and go Moon maneuvering, was a specialty honed decades ago by the former Soviet Union. Luna 16 performed the first robotic sampling of the Moon in 1970. It spent some 26 hours on the lunar surface, rocketing back to Earth fragments of Moon stuff for later analysis. Luna 20 followed in 1972, soft-landing in a mountainous area known as the Apollonius highlands. It plopped down roughly 75-miles (120 kilometers) from the Luna 16 site. The probe drilled into the lunar terrain and transferred bits and pieces of the Moon into a sealed capsule. Capsule and contents blasted off the Moon and parachuted into the Soviet Union a few days later. The last in this Soviet series of Moon robots was Luna 24 in 1976. It set down in Mare Crisium, also returning to Earth a small, but treasured load of lunar turf. For the United States, during 1966 into 1968, NASA's Surveyor Moon landers carried out research duties on the surface. However, these craft were not designed to shoot back samples. The heavy lifting and return of hand picked lunar specimens was assigned to Apollo moonwalkers. According to Jim Burke, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer who managed America's first series of crash-landing Ranger lunar flights, a South Pole Aitken Basin mission is technically feasible. "In an ideal world, we would just go and do it with Soviet technology. But in the real world, the 1970s were a long time ago," Burke said. "Chances are that the whole thing would be a new design, generations of engineers being what they are. I sometimes offer the analogy of little sea turtles hatching and having to find their own way," he said. Backyard digging A strong advocate for sampling South Pole-Aitken is Mike Duke, a space geologist at the School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. "It's an important lunar science mission," Duke said, "to a region of the Moon that is distinctly different from any area sampled by Apollo or Luna missions. It will address some fundamental issues of early solar system evolution, as well as provide the deepest sampling of the early Moon." Duke said that fresh lunar material to study would reinvigorate the geochemistry/cosmochemistry community of scientists. Antarctic meteorites have saved their day, he said, but a program of new Moon sampling would spur exciting science, including new instruments and research techniques. "The planetary program is moving from an era of flybys and orbital reconnaissance to an advanced era of surface exploration and sample returns. It is not only scientifically valuable, but logical that NASA should start with the Moon& it's in our backyard," said Wesley Huntress, Jr., Director of the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, located in Washington, D.C. Huntress said that samples returned by Soviet Luna craft and Apollo were all from the upper crustal portion of the Moon's side that faces Earth. "The USSR accomplished the first robotic sample returns from the Moon in the 1970s, but these missions required special celestial circumstances, allowing return from only very specific sites at very specific times. Now, 30 years later, technology has advanced where this can be achieved from anywhere on the Moon for much less mass and cost," Huntress said. Getting back to the Moon is of high scientific importance, said lunar scientist David Lawrence of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. "Unfortunately, I think there may be a general impression that because we have samples from nine locations -- six Apollo and three from Luna -- we already know everything that is to know about the Moon," Lawrence said. "This is quite silly. That's like saying you picked up a few samples from the American Southwest and Midwest and claiming you know all about the Earth from these samples," he said. "There is still much to learn about the Moon using samples. And the South Pole-Aitken basin is a great place to return and learn more," Lawrence said. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Ad Astsra On Line Digest http://www.nss.org/adastra/index.html Index http://www.nss.org/adastra/contents/contentsv14n4.htm The Future of Space Transportation Is it Expendable? Resuables? Or the Shuttle? Why not all three? by Frank Sietzen, Jr. http://www.nss.org/adastra/contents/V14N4F1.pdf =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 15:14:30 -0400 To: history@lists.hq.nasa.gov From: "Stephen J. Garber" Subject: new Web sites and new monograph Sender: owner-history@lists.hq.nasa.gov The NASA History Office is pleased to present a new monograph and two new Web sites. Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight on December 17, 1903 (NASA SP-2002-4527) is Monograph in Aerospace History #27. This monograph is a very useful reference on the wide body of literature on the Wright brothers and their historic achievement. Compiled by Arthur G. Renstrom, this is a joint publication of the NASA History Office and the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. To request a copy of this monograph, please send a self-addressed 9x12"envelope for each monograph with appropriate postage for 17 ounces (typically $3.95 within the U.S., $5.70 for Canada, and $12.15 for overseas - international customers are asked to purchase U.S. postage through an outlet such as www.stampsonline.com) to the NASA Headquarters Information Center, Code CI-4, Washington, DC 20546. The Voyage of Mariner 10: Mission to Venus and Mercury (SP-424, 1978) by James A. Dunne and Eric Burgess is now online at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-424/sp424.htm on the Web. A New Sun: Solar Results from Skylab (SP-402, 1979) by John A. Eddy and edited by Rein Ise is now online at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/sp402.htm on the Web. These illustrated histories are interesting and useful works on space science results from two significant programs. Special thanks to volunteer Chris Gamble for scanning and formatting them for the Web. Stephen Garber NASA History Office Code IQ NASA Headquarters - Room CO72 Washington, DC 20546-0001 202-358-0385 202-358-2866 fax steve.garber@hq.nasa.gov NASA History Home Page: http://history.nasa.gov =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Web page translators. - LRK - http://babel.altavista.com/tr http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=3Den http://sangenjaya.arc.net.my/url/index-e.html http://www.babelfish.org/ Suggestions for additional web page translators appreciated. - 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 have any suggestions or comments please feel free to write to my Ames e-mail at lkellogg@mail.arc.nasa.gov You just might see some of it re-appear here, so beware. :-> Larry Kellogg =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK http://home.mindspring.com/~larrykellogg =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To remove yourself from the lunar-update emailer simply send a message to= - To:lunar-update-request@lists.arc.nasa.gov From: Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------- If you were passed this email and want to subscribe to the lunar-update list send a message to To:lunar-update-request@lists.arc.nasa.gov From: Subject: subscribe =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D -- Larry R. 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----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Kellogg
Sent: Friday= , August 02, 2002 4:05 PM
To: lunar-update@lists.arc.nasa.gov
<= B>Cc: lkellogg@mail.arc.nasa.gov
This giant site is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin.

South P= ole-Aitken basin is expected to offer clues not only about
early lunar= evolution, but Earth's formative years too. Studying
lunar specimens = dug up from this site and flung back to labs would
bring back memories= . That is, time capsule clues of just how severe
and exactly when earl= y Earth and Moon found themselves on a celestial
hit list, suffering t= hrough a late and heavy bombardment of asteroids
and comets.
------=
Interesting article.  - LRK -

Should be something in ther= e about needing a plan, funding a plan,
executing a plan. - LRK -
<= BR>Do you really want to develop space?  Is there a long range plan = here
for the whole Blue Marble?  If you bring back more samples, = will
there be funding to examine them?  If you aren't going to go= back and
use the resources, do you want spend the money on just scien= ce?  What
is in it for the kid down the block?  Would it sto= p crime in the
ghetto? - LRK -

When you look up, what do you se= e?  How far away can you look?  Which
way do I point my Dire= ct TV dish?  Why am I having trouble picking up
Bangkok  fro= m Sunnyvale, CA?
(works most of the time and Sangad can watch Thai kic= k boxing - LRK -)

------------------------------------------------= --------------------------------------------------------------
Pakista= n needs to use its slot in GEO before it is taken away - why? - LRK -
= http://www.pakobserver.net/july2002/06/editorial01.shtml
PAKISTAN'S dr= eam to have its own geo-stationary satellite into orbit
is to become a= reality when the PAKSAT becomes operational possibly
on December 24, = 2002. The Federal Cabinet has already approved
acquisition of Hughes G= lobal Systems Satellite (HGSS) on five-year
lease and Minister for Sci= ence and Technology Dr Attaur Rehman, who
is the moving force behind t= he project, has set clear-cut deadlines
to ensure that Pakistan occupi= es its allotted slot of 38 degree East
by repositioning of the commerc= ial satellite.

http://www.defencejournal.com/may98/economic1.htmWith the dissolution of the Soviet Union and opening up of the
Centr= al Asian Republics, the whole Geo-political  scenario has
changed= . The Central Asian Republics have more importance now, in the
strateg= y of the world, especially  in Asia than any other region of
the = world.

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/2001/aug/news030801.htm<= BR>The Asian GIS Portal

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?p= id=3D8834
   PRESS RELEASE
   Date Released: Mo= nday, July 15, 2002
   Air Force Space Command News Service<= BR>        Military Perspectives on th= e Near-Earth Object (NEO) Threat

SIMON P. WORDEN, BRIGADIER GENERA= L, USAF
Deputy Director for Operations
United States Space Command<= BR>Peterson AFB, CO
July 10, 2002

The opinions and concepts exp= ressed are those of the author and do
not necessarily represent the po= sition of the Department of Defense
or the United States Space Command=

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Can you see yourself on = the Moon? - LRK -

I need to put in a lawn, my house is the only on= e with brown weeds.
Priorities.  Think about it. - LRK -

L= arry
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* NASA's Robotic Return Mission = to the Moon
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/robotic_moon_020801.h= tml


NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon
By Leonard Da= vid
Senior Space Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
01 August 2002

Scientists have called for NASA to mount a robotic return mission t= o
the far side of the moon to collect samples from the solar system's<= BR>own "big dig" - the oldest and deepest impact crater basin known.
T= his giant site is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin.

South Pole-Ait= ken basin is expected to offer clues not only about
early lunar evolut= ion, but Earth's formative years too. Studying
lunar specimens dug up = from this site and flung back to labs would
bring back memories. That = is, time capsule clues of just how severe
and exactly when early Earth= and Moon found themselves on a celestial
hit list, suffering through = a late and heavy bombardment of asteroids
and comets.


NASA'= s rekindling of Moon exploration won't come easy.

No doubt the sci= ence would be topnotch. But setting down an automated
spacecraft safel= y at the lunar south pole, round up samples, then
shoot the goods back= to Earth is an easier said than done job.

The space agency may we= ll need to dust off and relearn lessons from
the early 1960s into the = 1970s.
That's when robots ruled the Moon before and after Apollo 11's = Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set
foot and flag there.

Year= -in-the-making strategy

In early July, the prestigious National Re= search Council in
Washington, D.C. released a seminal report: New Fron= tiers in the
Solar System - An Integrated Exploration Strategy. The st= udy is an
intensive look at a decade's worth (2003-2013) of high prior= ity space
exploration projects.

Requested by NASA, the year-in-= the-making strategy was a major output
from the planetary
explorati= on community. High on their collective wish list was a
sample return f= rom the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin.

The farside South Pole-Ait= ken (SPA) basin represents the principal
major lunar terrain that rema= ins
unsampled, the NRC survey report observed. "Analysis of materials<= BR>from the SPA basin thus is
expected to provide key information rega= rding fundamental problems of
the present-day surface of the Moon and = its geologic history," the
report explained.

High-tech teething=

Pulling off such a spacecraft project would also offer engineers = a
bit of technological teething.

"Such a sample-return mission = -- i.e., one of moderate technical
difficulty -- is an opportunity to = gain
relevant experience for much more complex sample-return missions = from
Mars and, ultimately, Venus," the report said.

It's obviou= s that any autopilot Moon landing and return sample probe
demands a he= avy dose of high
technology.

Automated descent, hazard avoidanc= e and precision landing gear is
critical. So too is advanced
on-the= -spot sampling, maybe even drilling, age dating and chemical
sensing s= ensors. Then there's
requirement for sample transfer into an ascent ve= hicle and need for
Earth-return hardware.

Lastly, a relay satel= lite put in lunar orbit is also necessary for
farside command and cont= rol of the
spacecraft.

Add all that up, this mission is sure to= ring up a good-sized bill.

Ball in NASA's court: love too?
NASA officials were reportedly surprised and somewhat dismayed to
lea= rn of the NRC's robotic lunar sample return recommendation.

Space = agency officials, of course, could blow off the scientific
community c= ounsel, seeing it as
misguided advice but that scenario doesn't appear= likely.

"The Moon is the cornerstone and keystone for our underst= anding of
the terrestrial planets, including
Earth," said James Hea= d, planetary geologist at Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island= . "It's a
centerpiece, holding together the emerging arch of understan= ding
about the planets," he told SPACE.com.

Getting back to the= Moon builds on the past, Head said, given the
data yielded by both Ap= ollo and past lunar robotic missions. "We can
ask much more sophistica= ted questions of the Moon because of this
important data base. This me= ans that the return on our investment
from further lunar exploration c= an potentially be much greater, and
much more synergistic," he said.
Head said that a farside sample mission to the South Pole-AitkenBasin floor could test models of giant impact basin formation, depth
= of excavation, crustal thickness, impact melt formation, lower crust
a= nd perhaps mantle composition, and other parameters.

The ability t= o return samples from "the other half of the Moon", Head
said, require= s precursor technology development, ideal equipment for
sampling other= lunar locales and other airless bodies.

First come, first served<= BR>
Lest anybody forget, automated landing, followed by touch and go M= oon
maneuvering, was a specialty honed decades ago by the former Sovie= t
Union.

Luna 16 performed the first robotic sampling of the Mo= on in 1970. It
spent some 26 hours on the lunar surface, rocketing bac= k to Earth
fragments of Moon stuff for later analysis.

Luna 20 = followed in 1972, soft-landing in a mountainous area known as
the Apol= lonius highlands. It plopped down roughly 75-miles (120
kilometers) fr= om the Luna 16 site. The probe drilled into the lunar
terrain and tran= sferred bits and pieces of the Moon into a sealed
capsule.  Capsu= le and contents blasted off the Moon and parachuted
into the Soviet Un= ion a few days later.

The last in this Soviet series of Moon robot= s was Luna 24 in 1976. It
set down in Mare Crisium, also returning to = Earth a small, but
treasured load of lunar turf.

For the United= States, during 1966 into 1968, NASA's Surveyor Moon
landers carried o= ut research duties on the surface. However, these
craft were not desig= ned to shoot back samples. The heavy lifting and
return of hand picked= lunar specimens was assigned to Apollo
moonwalkers.

According = to Jim Burke, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer
who managed = America's first series of crash-landing Ranger lunar
flights, a South = Pole Aitken Basin mission is technically feasible.

"In an ideal wo= rld, we would just go and do it with Soviet
technology. But in the rea= l world, the 1970s were a long time ago,"
Burke said. "Chances are tha= t the whole thing would be a new design,
generations of engineers bein= g what they are. I sometimes offer the
analogy of little sea turtles h= atching and having to find their own
way," he said.

Backyard di= gging

A strong advocate for sampling South Pole-Aitken is Mike Duk= e, a
space geologist at the School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
"It's an important lunar science mission," Duke said, "to a region ofthe Moon that is distinctly different from any area sampled by Apolloor Luna missions. It will address some fundamental issues of early
s= olar system evolution, as well as provide the deepest sampling of
the = early Moon."

Duke said that fresh lunar material to study would re= invigorate the
geochemistry/cosmochemistry community of scientists. An= tarctic
meteorites have saved their day, he said, but a program of new= Moon
sampling would spur exciting science, including new instruments = and
research techniques.

"The planetary program is moving from = an era of flybys and orbital
reconnaissance to an advanced era of surf= ace exploration and sample
returns. It is not only scientifically valu= able, but logical that
NASA should start with the Moon& it's in ou= r backyard," said Wesley
Huntress, Jr., Director of the Geophysical La= boratory at the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, located in Washing= ton, D.C.

Huntress said that samples returned by Soviet Luna craft= and Apollo
were all from the upper crustal portion of the Moon's side= that faces
Earth.

"The USSR accomplished the first robotic sam= ple returns from the Moon
in the 1970s, but these missions required sp= ecial celestial
circumstances, allowing return from only very specific= sites at very
specific times. Now, 30 years later, technology has adv= anced where
this can be achieved from anywhere on the Moon for much le= ss mass and
cost," Huntress said.

Getting back to the Moon is o= f high scientific importance, said lunar
scientist David Lawrence of t= he Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico.

"Unfortunately= , I think there may be a general impression that
because we have sampl= es from nine locations -- six Apollo and three
from Luna -- we already= know everything that is to know about the
Moon," Lawrence said. "This= is quite silly. That's like saying you
picked up a few samples from t= he American Southwest and Midwest and
claiming you know all about the = Earth from these samples," he said.

"There is still much to learn = about the Moon using samples. And the
South Pole-Aitken basin is a gre= at place to return and learn more,"
Lawrence said.


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http://www.nss.org/adastra= /index.html
Index
http://www.nss.org/adastra/contents/contentsv14n4= .htm
The Future of Space Transportation
Is it Expendable? Resuables= ? Or the Shuttle? Why not all three?
by Frank Sietzen, Jr.
http://w= ww.nss.org/adastra/contents/V14N4F1.pdf
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To: history@lists.hq.nasa.govFrom: "Stephen J. Garber" <sgarber@hq.nasa.gov>
Subject: new We= b sites and new monograph
Sender: owner-history@lists.hq.nasa.gov
<= BR>The NASA History Office is pleased to present a new monograph and two<= BR>new Web sites.

Wilbur and Orville Wright:  A Bibliography = Commemorating the
One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Fligh= t on December 17,
1903 (NASA SP-2002-4527) is Monograph in Aerospace H= istory #27.  This
monograph is a very useful reference on the wid= e body of literature
on the Wright brothers and their historic achieve= ment.  Compiled by
Arthur G. Renstrom, this is a joint publicatio= n of the NASA History
Office and the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commiss= ion.  To request a
copy of this monograph, please send a self-add= ressed 9x12"envelope
for each monograph with appropriate postage for 1= 7 ounces (typically
$3.95 within the U.S., $5.70 for Canada, and $12.1= 5 for overseas -
international customers are asked to purchase U.S. po= stage through an
outlet such as www.stampsonline.com) to the NASA Head= quarters
Information Center, Code CI-4, Washington, DC 20546.

T= he Voyage of Mariner 10:  Mission to Venus and Mercury (SP-424,
1= 978) by James A. Dunne and Eric Burgess is now online at
http://histor= y.nasa.gov/SP-424/sp424.htm on the Web.   A New Sun:
Solar R= esults from Skylab (SP-402, 1979) by John A. Eddy and edited
by Rein I= se is now online at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-402/sp402.htm
on the We= b.   These illustrated histories are interesting and useful
= works on space science results from two significant programs.
Special = thanks to volunteer Chris Gamble for scanning and formatting
them for = the Web.

Stephen Garber
NASA History Office
Code IQ
NASA = Headquarters - Room CO72
Washington, DC 20546-0001
202-358-0385
= 202-358-2866 fax
steve.garber@hq.nasa.gov
NASA History Home Page: h= ttp://history.nasa.gov
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Web page trans= lators. - LRK -
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http://www.google.com= /language_tools?hl=3Den
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------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C23C7C.490B16F0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 10:08:25 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75H8O2D019224 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA04103 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:45:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe28.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.108]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04099 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:45:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:44:51 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.45] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: AstroAlert: New Dawn Comet Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:44:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C7D.CEE1D380" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 16:44:51.0016 (UTC) FILETIME=[6ADD7480:01C23C9F] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C7D.CEE1D380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger W. Sinnott Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 7:37 PM To: comet@SkyandTelescope.com Subject: AstroAlert: New Dawn Comet ================================================================== This Is SKY & TELESCOPE's AstroAlert for Comets ================================================================== NEW COMET IN THE DAWN SKY Another new comet, even brighter than Comet Hoenig (announced last week), can now be seen by observers with large binoculars in the Northern Hemisphere. It is low in the eastern sky around the time morning twilight begins. According to calculations by Brian G. Marsden, published by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams on IAU Circular 7948 (August 3rd), this comet will pass through perihelion around September 9th. It will then be midway between the Earth's orbit and the Sun. This comet is traveling in a near-parabolic orbit inclined 59 degrees to the ecliptic. Further details about the discovery are available from the Central Bureau's subscription service (visit http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html ). Unfortunately, as this comet gets closer to perihelion its elongation angle from the Sun decreases, making it harder to observe. On August 8th, for example, at the start of morning twilight, the comet is 16 degrees above the eastern horizon for an observer at latitude 40 degrees north. By the 21st it is only 10 degrees above the northeastern horizon as twilight begins. The second and third weeks of August appear to offer the best viewing prospects for this object, which is not likely to become brighter than 6th magnitude. While it carries the designation C/2002 O6, this comet's name has not yet been officially announced. Japanese astronomer Masayuki Suzuki was among the first to spot it on all-sky images taken in late July with the SOHO spacecraft's SWAN solar-wind camera. Unlike the many other SOHO comets, this one was detected 90 degrees from the Sun and is not a Sun-grazer at all. As reported on IAU Circular 7944 (August 1st), Alan Hale in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, confirmed it visually with an 8-inch (20-cm) telescope and J. Broughton in Queensland, Australia, obtained CCD images with a 10-inch reflector. The following ephemeris, based on Marsden's preliminary orbital elements, gives the comet's right ascension and declination (equinox 2000.0) at 0h Universal Time on each date, its distance from the Earth (delta) and Sun (r) in astronomical units (where 1 a.u. is 149,600,000 km), elongation angle, predicted magnitude, and the constellation through which it is passing. Roger W. Sinnott Senior Editor Sky & Telescope ---------------------------------------------------------- COMET 2002 O6 Date R.A. Dec. delta r Elong. Mag. Const. (0h UT) h m o ' a.u. a.u. o Aug 05 4 39.3 -03 09 0.279 0.942 67 7.0 Eri Aug 06 4 54.4 +00 33 0.270 0.925 63 6.8 Ori Aug 07 5 10.5 +04 30 0.263 0.908 59 6.7 Ori Aug 08 5 27.6 +08 35 0.259 0.891 55 6.6 Ori Aug 09 5 45.5 +12 42 0.258 0.873 51 6.5 Tau Aug 10 6 04.1 +16 45 0.259 0.856 47 6.4 Ori Aug 11 6 23.2 +20 36 0.264 0.839 43 6.3 Gem Aug 12 6 42.5 +24 10 0.271 0.822 39 6.3 Gem Aug 13 7 01.7 +27 22 0.281 0.805 37 6.3 Gem Aug 14 7 20.7 +30 10 0.293 0.789 34 6.3 Gem Aug 15 7 39.1 +32 33 0.307 0.772 33 6.3 Gem Aug 16 7 56.7 +34 32 0.323 0.755 31 6.3 Lyn Aug 17 8 13.4 +36 10 0.341 0.739 30 6.4 Lyn Aug 18 8 29.1 +37 28 0.361 0.723 30 6.4 Lyn Aug 19 8 43.7 +38 30 0.381 0.707 30 6.4 Lyn Aug 20 8 57.2 +39 17 0.403 0.691 30 6.4 Lyn Aug 21 9 09.7 +39 52 0.426 0.676 30 6.4 Lyn Aug 22 9 21.1 +40 16 0.450 0.661 30 6.5 Lyn Aug 23 9 31.6 +40 32 0.474 0.646 30 6.5 Lyn Aug 24 9 41.1 +40 41 0.499 0.631 30 6.5 Lyn Aug 25 9 49.8 +40 44 0.525 0.617 30 6.5 LMi Aug 26 9 57.7 +40 40 0.552 0.604 30 6.5 LMi Aug 27 10 04.9 +40 33 0.579 0.591 31 6.5 LMi Aug 28 10 11.5 +40 21 0.606 0.578 31 6.5 LMi Aug 29 10 17.5 +40 06 0.634 0.566 31 6.5 UMa Aug 30 10 23.0 +39 47 0.662 0.555 31 6.5 UMa Aug 31 10 28.0 +39 25 0.691 0.545 31 6.6 UMa Sep 01 10 32.6 +39 01 0.720 0.535 31 6.6 LMi -------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL NOTE: Many subscribers reported getting multiple copies of last week's AstroAlert about Comet Hoenig. 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          &n= bsp; NEW COMET IN THE DAWN SKY

Another new comet, even brighter th= an Comet Hoenig
(announced last week), can now be seen by observers wi= th
large binoculars in the Northern Hemisphere. It is low in
the ea= stern sky around the time morning twilight begins.

According to ca= lculations by Brian G. Marsden, published
by the Central Bureau for As= tronomical Telegrams on IAU
Circular 7948 (August 3rd), this comet wil= l pass through
perihelion around September 9th. It will then be midway=
between the Earth's orbit and the Sun. This comet is
traveling in = a near-parabolic orbit inclined 59 degrees
to the ecliptic. Further de= tails about the discovery are
available from the Central Bureau's subs= cription service
(visit http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html ).
Unfortunately, as this comet gets closer to perihelion
its elonga= tion angle from the Sun decreases, making it
harder to observe. On Aug= ust 8th, for example, at the
start of morning twilight, the comet is 1= 6 degrees
above the eastern horizon for an observer at latitude
40 = degrees north. By the 21st it is only 10 degrees
above the northeaster= n horizon as twilight begins.
The second and third weeks of August app= ear to offer the
best viewing prospects for this object, which is not<= BR>likely to become brighter than 6th magnitude.

While it carries = the designation C/2002 O6, this comet's
name has not yet been official= ly announced. Japanese
astronomer Masayuki Suzuki was among the first = to spot
it on all-sky images taken in late July with the SOHO
space= craft's SWAN solar-wind camera. Unlike the many
other SOHO comets, thi= s one was detected 90 degrees from
the Sun and is not a Sun-grazer at = all. As reported on
IAU Circular 7944 (August 1st), Alan Hale in Cloud= croft,
New Mexico, confirmed it visually with an 8-inch (20-cm)
tel= escope and J. Broughton in Queensland, Australia,
obtained CCD images = with a 10-inch reflector.

The following ephemeris, based on Marsde= n's preliminary
orbital elements, gives the comet's right ascension an= d
declination (equinox 2000.0) at 0h Universal Time on each
date, i= ts distance from the Earth (delta) and Sun (r) in
astronomical units (= where 1 a.u. is 149,600,000 km),
elongation angle, predicted magnitude= , and the
constellation through which it is passing.


Roger = W. Sinnott
Senior Editor
Sky & Telescope


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   =             &= nbsp;       COMET 2002 O6

Date =       R.A.    Dec.  &nb= sp; delta    r   Elong. Mag. Const.
(0h UT)&n= bsp;   h  m     o  '  &= nbsp; a.u.   a.u.    o    &n= bsp;      
Aug 05    4 3= 9.3  -03 09   0.279  0.942   67  = 7.0   Eri
Aug 06    4 54.4  +00 33 = ;  0.270  0.925   63   6.8   Ori<= BR>Aug 07    5 10.5  +04 30   0.263  0= .908   59   6.7   Ori
Aug 08  =   5 27.6  +08 35   0.259  0.891   55&n= bsp;  6.6   Ori
Aug 09    5 45.5  += 12 42   0.258  0.873   51   6.5 &= nbsp; Tau
Aug 10    6 04.1  +16 45   0.2= 59  0.856   47   6.4   Ori
Aug 11&n= bsp;   6 23.2  +20 36   0.264  0.839 &= nbsp; 43   6.3   Gem
Aug 12    6 42= .5  +24 10   0.271  0.822   39   = 6.3   Gem
Aug 13    7 01.7  +27 22 =   0.281  0.805   37   6.3   GemAug 14    7 20.7  +30 10   0.293  0.= 789   34   6.3   Gem
Aug 15  &= nbsp; 7 39.1  +32 33   0.307  0.772   33&nb= sp;  6.3   Gem
Aug 16    7 56.7  +3= 4 32   0.323  0.755   31   6.3 &n= bsp; Lyn
Aug 17    8 13.4  +36 10   0.34= 1  0.739   30   6.4   Lyn
Aug 18&nb= sp;   8 29.1  +37 28   0.361  0.723 &n= bsp; 30   6.4   Lyn
Aug 19    8 43.= 7  +38 30   0.381  0.707   30   6= .4   Lyn
Aug 20    8 57.2  +39 17 &= nbsp; 0.403  0.691   30   6.4   LynAug 21    9 09.7  +39 52   0.426  0.6= 76   30   6.4   Lyn
Aug 22  &n= bsp; 9 21.1  +40 16   0.450  0.661   30&nbs= p;  6.5   Lyn
Aug 23    9 31.6  +40= 32   0.474  0.646   30   6.5 &nb= sp; Lyn
Aug 24    9 41.1  +40 41   0.499=   0.631   30   6.5   Lyn
Aug 25&nbs= p;   9 49.8  +40 44   0.525  0.617 &nb= sp; 30   6.5   LMi
Aug 26    9 57.7=   +40 40   0.552  0.604   30   6.= 5   LMi
Aug 27   10 04.9  +40 33   = 0.579  0.591   31   6.5   LMi
Aug 2= 8   10 11.5  +40 21   0.606  0.578 &nb= sp; 31   6.5   LMi
Aug 29   10 17.5 = ; +40 06   0.634  0.566   31   6.5&nbs= p;  UMa
Aug 30   10 23.0  +39 47   0.662=   0.555   31   6.5   UMa
Aug 31&nbs= p;  10 28.0  +39 25   0.691  0.545   3= 1   6.6   UMa
Sep 01   10 32.6  +39= 01   0.720  0.535   31   6.6 &nb= sp; LMi
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------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C7D.CEE1D380-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 13:13:56 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75KDt2D015248 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA04420 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:00:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe7.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.87]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04416 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:00:11 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.86] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: CSICOP in the News and On The Air Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:59:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23C99.186EE9A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 20:00:11.0418 (UTC) FILETIME=[B4C4DFA0:01C23CBA] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23C99.186EE9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Karr Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 3:51 PM To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: CSICOP in the News and On The Air Special Pre Message: Paul Kurtz will be on the nationally syndicated "Je= rry Strout" Show at 7:30 pm Eastern time (4:30 pm Pacific). The "Jerry Strout= " Show has the widest distribution in the Pacific North West. Check your listings >From Kevin Christopher, CSICOP Director of Public Relations press@csicop.org Amherst, NY (August 6, 2002)-- It's easy for skeptics to feel beleaguered when faced with the flood of credulous reporting in print, on the radio a= nd on TV. That's why I think it's important to let you know about some of th= e great media coverage CSICOP has been getting lately. In anticipation of the new Hollywood movie, "Signs," CSICOP has been on a marathon crop circle media blitz over the past eight days; In addition, t= he past three weeks have kept Paul Kurtz, Joe Nickell and other CSICOP staff busy on studio phone lines for morning and afternoon talk radio shows acr= oss the United States. The CSICOP Announcement List recently tallied several interviews Paul Kurtz has given to media worldwide. Adding to this the media successes of the Burbank skeptics conference in June, which included taped interviews of dozens of CSICOP fellows by BBC Radio and a production company for The Learning Channel, it becomes clear that CSICOP and Skeptical Inquirer have been effectively getting the word out on a slew of paranormal and junk-science claims. I can also guarantee that in coming weeks, we'll be announcing even better news about our medi= a outreach. Here's a list of some of the great coverage we've enjoyed in the past few weeks: U.S. NATIONAL TELEVISION: August 2, 2002 CNBC "The News with Brian Williams" 7:00 PM EDT (GMT - 4 hr) Joe Nickell interviewed on crop circles. Joe, Ben Radford and Kevin Christopher demonstrate the techniques to create crop circles. NEWSPAPER CROP-CIRCLE MEDIA BLITZ: (Boston, Indianapolis, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, New Jersey State, National) July 28, 2002 New York Daily News "HARVESTING A HOAX: The new movie 'Signs' exploits the corny crop-circle phenomenon" by Jami Bernard http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/index.html?ts=3D1028300309 (FEE f= or FULL ARTICLE) August 1, 2002 Boston Globe "CIRCULAR LOGIC: CROP FORMATIONS MAY BE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY, BUT THE MEDIA ARE BETTING THEY'LL MAKE SENSE AT THE CASH REGISTER" by Vanessa E. Jones, Globe Staff http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=3Ddoc&p_docid=3D0= F5252BF 5A9ADAFB&p_docnum=3D1 August 1, 2002 Indianapolis Star "Mystery or mischief? Crop circle phenomenon preys on our imagination." By John J. Shaughnessy" http://www.indystar.com/article.php?cropcircles01.html August 1, 2002 Salt Lake Tribune "Film Opening Triggers Memories of Utah's Crop Circles" By Vince Horiuchi http://www.sltrib.com/08012002/thursday/758144.htm August 1, 2002 San Francisco Chronicle "Cereal spin doctors Crop circles: Precursors to a close encounter with ET or merely catering = to the public's appetite for 'occult metaphors'?" by Rick DelVecchio SF Chronicle Staff Writer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/2002/= 08/01 /MN42887.DTL August 2, 2002 MSNBC.com "It's harvest time for crop-circle hype" by Alan Boyle http://www.msnbc.com/news/787696.asp August 2, 2002 Denver Post "Circular argument crops up yet again Skeptics, believers continue debate" By Michael Booth, Denver Post Staff Writer http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E769052,00.html?sea= rch =3Dfilter SUMMER RADIO BLITZ: Paul Kurtz, Joe Nickell and other CSICOP staff have been guests on the following radio stations: July 18, 2002 WKVL Knoxville, TN July 22, 2002 KXNA Fayetteville, AR July 22, 2002 KXEL Waterloo, IA July 24, 2002 KTKT Tucson, AZ July 25, 2002 WROW Albany, NY July 26, 2002 "Hilly Rose Show" Sirius Satellite Radio July 29, 2002 WGCH Greenwich, CT July 30, 2002 WFOB Fostoria, OH July 31, 2002 WASO New Orleans, LA August 1, 2002 KOA "Mike Rosen Show" Denver, CO August 2, 2002 KGO Radio: Morning Show hosted by Ed Baxter San Francisco, CA August 2, 2002 WTNT Washington, DC ### ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23C99.186EE9A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Karr
Sent: Monday, A= ugust 05, 2002 3:51 PM
To: C= SICOP-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
= Subject: CSICOP in the News and On The Air
 
Spe= cial Pre Message:  Paul Kurtz will be on the nationally syndicated "= Jerry
Strout" Show at 7:30 pm Eastern time (4:30 pm Pacific). The "Jer= ry Strout"
Show has the widest distribution in the Pacific North West.= Check your
listings



From Kevin Christopher,
CSICOP = Director of Public Relations
press@csicop.org

Amherst, NY (Augu= st 6, 2002)-- It's easy for skeptics to feel beleaguered
when faced wi= th the flood of credulous reporting in print, on the radio and
on TV. = That's why I think it's important to let you know about some of the
gr= eat media coverage CSICOP has been getting lately.

In anticipation= of the new Hollywood movie, "Signs," CSICOP has been on a
marathon cr= op circle media blitz over the past eight days; In addition, the
past = three weeks have kept Paul Kurtz, Joe Nickell and other CSICOP staff
b= usy on studio phone lines for morning and afternoon talk radio shows acro= ss
the United States. The CSICOP Announcement List recently tallied se= veral
interviews Paul Kurtz has given to media worldwide.

Addin= g to this the media successes of the Burbank skeptics conference in
Ju= ne, which included taped interviews of dozens of CSICOP fellows by BBCRadio and a production company for The Learning Channel, it becomes clea= r
that CSICOP and Skeptical Inquirer have been effectively getting the= word
out on a slew of paranormal and junk-science claims. I can also = guarantee
that in coming weeks, we'll be announcing even better news a= bout our media
outreach.

Here's a list of some of the great cov= erage we've enjoyed in the past few
weeks:

U.S. NATIONAL TELEVI= SION:

August 2, 2002
CNBC
"The News with Brian Williams" 7:0= 0 PM EDT (GMT - 4 hr)
Joe Nickell interviewed on crop circles. Joe, Be= n Radford and Kevin
Christopher demonstrate the techniques to create c= rop circles.



NEWSPAPER CROP-CIRCLE MEDIA BLITZ: (Boston, I= ndianapolis, New York, Salt
Lake City, San Francisco, New Jersey State= , National)

July 28, 2002
New York Daily News
"HARVESTING A = HOAX:
The new movie 'Signs' exploits the corny crop-circle phenomenon"=
by Jami Bernard
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/index.html= ?ts=3D1028300309 (FEE for
FULL ARTICLE)


August 1, 2002
B= oston Globe
"CIRCULAR LOGIC:
CROP FORMATIONS MAY BE SHROUDED IN MYS= TERY, BUT THE MEDIA ARE BETTING
THEY'LL MAKE SENSE AT THE CASH REGISTE= R"
by Vanessa E. Jones, Globe Staff
http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-sea= rch/we/Archives?p_action=3Ddoc&p_docid=3D0F5252BF
5A9ADAFB&p_d= ocnum=3D1


August 1, 2002
Indianapolis Star
"Mystery or m= ischief?
Crop circle phenomenon preys on our imagination."
By John = J. Shaughnessy"
http://www.indystar.com/article.php?cropcircles01.html=


August 1, 2002
Salt Lake Tribune
"Film Opening Triggers= Memories of Utah's Crop Circles"
By Vince Horiuchi
http://www.sltr= ib.com/08012002/thursday/758144.htm


August 1, 2002
San Fran= cisco Chronicle
"Cereal spin doctors
Crop circles: Precursors to a = close encounter with ET or merely catering to
the public's appetite fo= r 'occult metaphors'?"
by Rick DelVecchio SF Chronicle Staff Writerhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/2002= /08/01
/MN42887.DTL


August 2, 2002
MSNBC.com
"It's ha= rvest time for crop-circle hype"
by Alan Boyle
http://www.msnbc.com= /news/787696.asp


August 2, 2002
Denver Post
"Circular ar= gument crops up yet again
Skeptics, believers continue debate"
By M= ichael Booth, Denver Post Staff Writer
http://www.denverpost.com/Stori= es/0,1413,36%257E53%257E769052,00.html?search
=3Dfilter


SUM= MER RADIO BLITZ:

Paul Kurtz, Joe Nickell and other CSICOP staff ha= ve been guests on the
following radio stations:

July 18, 2002WKVL
Knoxville, TN

July 22, 2002
KXNA
Fayetteville, AR<= BR>
July 22, 2002
KXEL
Waterloo, IA

July 24, 2002
KTKT=
Tucson, AZ

July 25, 2002
WROW
Albany, NY

July 26,= 2002
"Hilly Rose Show"
Sirius Satellite Radio

July 29, 2002=
WGCH
Greenwich, CT

July 30, 2002
WFOB
Fostoria, OH
July 31, 2002
WASO
New Orleans, LA

August 1, 2002
KO= A
"Mike Rosen Show"
Denver, CO

August 2, 2002
KGO Radio: = Morning Show hosted by Ed Baxter
San Francisco, CA

August 2, 20= 02
WTNT
Washington, DC
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23C99.186EE9A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 13:37:02 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75Kb12D009424 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA04500 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:21:41 -0400 (EDT) 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 QAA04496 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:21:07 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.86] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Secrecy News -- 08/05/02 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:20:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C9C.043AC3C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 20:21:07.0070 (UTC) FILETIME=[A13229E0:01C23CBD] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C9C.043AC3C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Aftergood, Steven Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 2:41 PM To: secrecy_news@lists.fas.org Subject: Secrecy News -- 08/05/02 SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2002, Issue No. 72 August 5, 2002 ** CONGRESSMEN VOICE "CONCERN" OVER SCIENCE PAPER ** ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY ** SHELBY A LEAK SUSPECT? ** DETAINEES AND "THE RIGHT TO KNOW" CONGRESSMEN VOICE "CONCERN" OVER SCIENCE PAPER Publication of a controversial scientific paper that described the synthesis of an infectious polio virus from mail order components has prompted several members of Congress to introduce a resolution expressing "serious concern" about the paper, which appeared July 11 in Science Magazine online, and calling for tighter controls on the publication of certain scientific research. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Dave Weldon and seven others on July 26, would urge the scientific community to ensure that information that may be used by terrorists is not made widely available. It would further call upon the executive branch to reexamine its classification policies in light of the recent polio virus paper, which was funded by DARPA. "The executive branch should examine all policies, including national security directives, relevant to the classification or publication of federally funded research to ensure that, although the free exchange of information is encouraged, information that could be useful in the development of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons is not made accessible to terrorists or countries of proliferation concern," according to the draft resolution. See the text of House Resolution 514 here: http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/hres514.html The relevant "national security directive" is National Security Decision Directive 189, which declared that "It is the policy of this Administration that, to the maximum extent possible, the products of fundamental research remain unrestricted." That 1985 directive remains in effect. See: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-189.htm Although the House resolution arguably overstated the significance of the Science paper as a blueprint for manufacturing other viruses, it noted correctly that "the principle that the article demonstrated could have been demonstrated by using a harmless bacterial virus." In other words, the paper was intended to be provocative. And now it has provoked. The House resolution, and other consequences of the polio virus paper, are discussed in a news story and an exchange of letters in the August 2 issue of Science Magazine. In response to penetrating criticism of the paper's publication from Stanford researcher Steven M. Block, Science editor Donald Kennedy defended the decision to publish. "Sticking one's head in the sand and hoping that unpleasant realities will go away has never been a fruitful approach to science or to public policy," he wrote. ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY The National Academy of Sciences has newly published online a 1991 report on "Estimating the Size of the Soviet Economy." This concerns an old dispute about the widely criticized methodology used by the Central Intelligence Agency to assess Soviet economic strength in the late cold war years. The text of the report is posted here: http://www.nap.edu/books/NI000462/html/index.html SHELBY A LEAK SUSPECT? Sen. Richard Shelby, the uncompromising foe of any and all leaks of classified information, may be a suspect in the leaking of classified communications intercepts to the press, according to U.S. News and World Report. His staff rejected that allegation as "silly." Sen. Shelby was seen talking to a CNN reporter shortly before CNN broadcast its story about the secret intercepts, said the U.S. News Washington Whispers column this week. That CNN story triggered an ongoing hunt for congressional leakers. See: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020812/whispers/12whisplead.htm DETAINEES AND "THE RIGHT TO KNOW" The nature of the public's legal claim of access to government information was the subject of a brief but interesting analysis in last Friday's federal court ruling which directed the government to disclose the names of most September 11 detainees. "It has long been recognized that the public has a First Amendment right of access to criminal proceedings, civil proceedings, and to 'receive information and ideas' pertaining to the conduct of public affairs. [...] This right derives from the core purpose of the First Amendment, which is to ensure 'freedom of communication on matters relating to the functioning of government'," wrote Judge Gladys Kessler. "However, the First Amendment is not coterminous with FOIA, and it does not 'mandate a right of access' to all 'government information'." Accordingly, Judge Kessler granted most of the information about detainees that was requested under FOIA but did not grant access requested on First Amendment grounds to dates and locations of the detainees' arrest (pp. 41-44). See the August 2 ruling here: http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/01-2500.pdf The Department of Justice promptly issued a statement criticizing the new ruling which, it said, "impedes one of the most important federal law enforcement investigations in history, harms our efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the heinous attacks of September 11, and increases the risk of future terrorist threats to our nation." See: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/08/doj080202.html The phrase "The Right to Know" was coined by Associated Press executive editor Kent Cooper, according to a New York Times editorial on January 23, 1945 (as noted by author Harold L. Cross in his 1953 book "The Public's Right to Know," p. xi). _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federati= on of American Scientists. To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to secrecy_news-request@lists.fa= s.org with "subscribe" in the body of the message. To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a blank email to secrecy_news-remove@lists.fas.org OR email your request to saftergood@fas.org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood@fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C9C.043AC3C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Aftergood, Steven
Sent: Mo= nday, August 05, 2002 2:41 PM
To= : secrecy_news@lists.fas.org
Subject: Secrecy News -- 08/05/02
 
SECRECY NEW= S
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No.= 72
August 5, 2002


** CONGRESSMEN VOICE "CONCERN" OVER SCIE= NCE PAPER
** ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY
** SHELBY A = LEAK SUSPECT?
** DETAINEES AND "THE RIGHT TO KNOW"


CONGRESS= MEN VOICE "CONCERN" OVER SCIENCE PAPER

Publication of a controvers= ial scientific paper that described the
synthesis of an infectious pol= io virus from mail order components has
prompted several members of Co= ngress to introduce a resolution
expressing "serious concern" about th= e paper, which appeared July 11
in Science Magazine online, and callin= g for tighter controls on the
publication of certain scientific resear= ch.

The resolution, introduced by Rep. Dave Weldon and seven other= s on
July 26, would urge the scientific community to ensure that
in= formation that may be used by terrorists is not made widely
available.=

It would further call upon the executive branch to reexamine its<= BR>classification policies in light of the recent polio virus paper,
w= hich was funded by DARPA.

"The executive branch should examine all= policies, including national
security directives, relevant to the cla= ssification or publication of
federally funded research to ensure that= , although the free exchange
of information is encouraged, information= that could be useful in the
development of chemical, biological, or n= uclear weapons is not made
accessible to terrorists or countries of pr= oliferation concern,"
according to the draft resolution.

See th= e text of House Resolution 514 here:

     http= ://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/hres514.html

The relevant "nation= al security directive" is National Security
Decision Directive 189, wh= ich declared that "It is the policy of this
Administration that, to th= e maximum extent possible, the products of
fundamental research remain= unrestricted."  That 1985 directive
remains in effect.  See= :

     http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsd= d-189.htm

Although the House resolution arguably overstated the si= gnificance of
the Science paper as a blueprint for manufacturing other= viruses, it
noted correctly that "the principle that the article demo= nstrated
could have been demonstrated by using a harmless bacterial vi= rus."

In other words, the paper was intended to be provocative.&nb= sp; And now it
has provoked.

The House resolution, and other co= nsequences of the polio virus paper,
are discussed in a news story and= an exchange of letters in the
August 2 issue of Science Magazine.
=
In response to penetrating criticism of the paper's publication from<= BR>Stanford researcher Steven M. Block, Science editor Donald Kennedy
= defended the decision to publish.

"Sticking one's head in the sand= and hoping that unpleasant realities
will go away has never been a fr= uitful approach to science or to
public policy," he wrote.


= ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY

The National Academy of = Sciences has newly published online a 1991
report on "Estimating the S= ize of the Soviet Economy."  This concerns
an old dispute about t= he widely criticized methodology used by the
Central Intelligence Agen= cy to assess Soviet economic strength in the
late cold war years.
<= BR>The text of the report is posted here:

    = http://www.nap.edu/books/NI000462/html/index.html


SHELBY A LE= AK SUSPECT?

Sen. Richard Shelby, the uncompromising foe of any and= all leaks of
classified information, may be a suspect in the leaking = of classified
communications intercepts to the press, according to U.S= . News and
World Report.

His staff rejected that allegation as = "silly."

Sen. Shelby was seen talking to a CNN reporter shortly be= fore CNN
broadcast its story about the secret intercepts, said the U.S= . News
Washington Whispers column this week.  That CNN story trig= gered an
ongoing hunt for congressional leakers.  See:

htt= p://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020812/whispers/12whisplead.htm

DETAINEES AND "THE RIGHT TO KNOW"

The nature of the public's leg= al claim of access to government
information was the subject of a brie= f but interesting analysis in
last Friday's federal court ruling which= directed the government to
disclose the names of most September 11 de= tainees.

"It has long been recognized that the public has a First = Amendment
right of access to criminal proceedings, civil proceedings, = and to
'receive information and ideas' pertaining to the conduct of pu= blic
affairs. [...] This right derives from the core purpose of the Fi= rst
Amendment, which is to ensure 'freedom of communication on matters=
relating to the functioning of government'," wrote Judge Gladys
Ke= ssler.

"However, the First Amendment is not coterminous with FOIA,= and it
does not 'mandate a right of access' to all 'government
inf= ormation'."

Accordingly, Judge Kessler granted most of the informa= tion about
detainees that was requested under FOIA but did not grant a= ccess
requested on First Amendment grounds to dates and locations of t= he
detainees' arrest (pp. 41-44).  See the August 2 ruling here:<= BR>
     http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/01-2500.pdf
The Department of Justice promptly issued a statement criticizing t= he
new ruling which, it said, "impedes one of the most important feder= al
law enforcement investigations in history, harms our efforts to bri= ng
to justice those responsible for the heinous attacks of September 1= 1,
and increases the risk of future terrorist threats to our nation."<= BR>See:

     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/= 08/doj080202.html

The phrase "The Right to Know" was coined by Ass= ociated Press
executive editor Kent Cooper, according to a New York Ti= mes editorial
on January 23, 1945 (as noted by author Harold L. Cross = in his 1953
book "The Public's Right to Know," p. xi).

________= _______________________________________
Secrecy News is written by Ste= ven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists.
=
To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to secrecy_news-request@list= s.fas.org with "subscribe" in the body of the message.

To UNSUBSCR= IBE, send a blank email to secrecy_news-remove@lists.fas.org

OR em= ail your request to saftergood@fas.org

Secrecy News is archived at= :
     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.h= tml

_______________________
Steven Aftergood
Project on Gove= rnment Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
web:  &n= bsp; www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
email:  saftergood@fas.org
voi= ce:  (202) 454-4691
------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23C9C.043AC3C0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 13:37:35 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75KbY2D017776 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA04520 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:25:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe26.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.106]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04516 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:25:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:24:45 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.86] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Observing Brown Dwarfs and More Support for Martian Meteorite Microlife Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:24:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23C9C.87F76F60" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 20:24:45.0822 (UTC) FILETIME=[239511E0:01C23CBE] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23C9C.87F76F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable THE DAY IN SPACE ________________ In today's space news from SpaceRef: -- First Ground-Based Mid-Infrared Observations of Brown Dwarfs http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8956 A team of European astronomers have observed eight Brown Dwarfs with the = TIMMI2 infrared sensitive instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla. Fr= om two of these, mid-infrared radiation is detected - for the first time ever from such ob= jects with a ground-based telescope. -- Researchers Publish Latest Results in Continuing Search for Ancient Ma= rtian Life http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8952 In the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian meteorite, researc= hers have presented new evidence confirming that 25 percent of the magnetic material in the = meteorite was produced by ancient bacteria on Mars. STATUS REPORTS ______________ For more status reports click here: http://www.spaceref.com/news/statusreports.html National Environmental Policy Act; Mars Exploration Rover-2003 Project http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6141 Stardust Status Report August 2, 2002 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6138 Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02 - 07/31/02 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6137 Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Frosted Crater http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6133 The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6126 PRESS RELEASES ______________ Australian-American duo shows black holes in collision http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8946 Scientists Detect "Smoking Gun" of Colliding Black Holes http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8945 Black Holes' Fatal Attraction Triggers Galaxies' Change of Heart http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8941 ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C23C9C.87F76F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
THE DAY IN SPA= CE
________________
In today's space news from SpaceRef:

-- = First Ground-Based Mid-Infrared Observations of Brown Dwarfs
http://ww= w.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8956

A team of European astr= onomers have observed eight Brown Dwarfs with the TIMMI2
infrared sens= itive instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla.  From two o= f these,
mid-infrared radiation is detected - for the first time ever = from such objects with a
ground-based telescope.

--= Researchers Publish Latest Results in Continuing Search for Ancient Mart= ian Life
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8952

In= the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian  meteorite, rese= archers have presented
new evidence confirming  that 25 percent o= f the magnetic material in the meteorite was
produced by ancient bacte= ria on Mars.

STATUS REPORTS
______________

F= or more status reports click here:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/status= reports.html

National Environmental Policy Act; Mars Exploration R= over-2003 Project
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6141<= BR>
Stardust Status Report August 2, 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/n= ews/viewsr.html?pid=3D6138

Cassini Significant Events for 07/25/02= - 07/31/02
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6137
Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Frosted Crater
http://www.spaceref.com/new= s/viewsr.html?pid=3D6133

The Fate of Pluto's Atmosphere
http://www.space= ref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6126

PRESS RELEASES=
______________

Australian-American duo shows black holes in co= llision
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8946

Sci= entists Detect "Smoking Gun" of Colliding Black Holes
http://www.space= ref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8945

Black Holes' Fatal Attraction = Triggers Galaxies' Change of Heart
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr= .html?pid=3D8941

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------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23C9C.97E44740-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 13:38:42 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75Kcf2D015168 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA04557 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:26:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe121.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.114]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04553 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:26:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:26:21 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.86] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Search for ancient Martian life continues; Hubble sees 'hamburger' Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:25:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23C9C.C09B6790" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 20:26:21.0405 (UTC) FILETIME=[5C8DE0D0:01C23CBE] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23C9C.C09B6790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: NewsAlert Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 8:54 PM To: newsalert Subject: Search for ancient Martian life continues; Hubble sees 'hamburger' NEWSALERT: Sunday, August 4, 2002 @ 0331 GMT --------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now ** It's your last chance to preorder your Apollo 15 DVDs at a special discount price. Two- and six-disc editions of this unique DVD will be shipping soon! --> http://spaceflightnow.com/store/video/dvdapollo15c.html ** SEARCH FOR ANCIENT MARTIAN LIFE CONTINUES ----------------------------------------- In the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian meteorite, researchers have presented new evidence confirming that 25 percent of the magnetic material in the meteorite was produced by ancient bacteria on Mars. These latest results were published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/04marslife/ ASTRONOMERS FEAST ON AN INTERSTELLAR HAMBURGER ---------------------------------------------- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hamburger. The object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. It already has expelled large amounts of gas and dust and is on its way to becoming a colorful, glowing planetary nebula. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/03hamburger/ GREGORY CONFIRMED TO NO. 2 POST AT NASA --------------------------------------- The U.S. Senate late Thursday confirmed Frederick D. Gregory as NASA Deputy Administrator. Gregory, a veteran Space Shuttle commander who previously served as the Associate Administrator for Space Flight, is set to become the agency's first African-American deputy. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/04gregory/ NO BUGS PLEASE, THIS IS A CLEAN PLANET! --------------------------------------- When packing for a trip towards another planet, there are some things, such as microorganisms, that you do not want to include in your 'luggage'. For example, what if extraterrestrial life is finally detected on Mars, and scientists realize afterwards that such life is actually terrestrial? http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/03bugs/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE NEW! Astronomy Now presents Hubble: the space telescope's view of the cosmos. A collection of the best images from the world's premier space observatory. U.S. Store: http://spaceflightnow.com/store/books/hubble.html Worldwide Store: http://spaceflightnow.com/wwstore/books/hubble.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AOL USERS --------- The links below make it easier for AOL users to reach our stories. SEARCH FOR ANCIENT MARTIAN LIFE CONTINUES ASTRONOMERS FEAST ON AN INTERSTELLAR HAMBURGER GREGORY CONFIRMED TO NO. 2 POST AT NASA NO BUGS PLEASE, THIS IS A CLEAN PLANET! ASTRONOMY NOW STORE ----------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: newsalert-off@astrolists.com ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23C9C.C09B6790 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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In the latest study of a 4.5 billion-year-old M= artian meteorite,
researchers have presented new evidence confirming t= hat 25 percent of
the magnetic material in the meteorite was produced = by ancient
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ASTRONO= MERS FEAST ON AN INTERSTELLAR HAMBURGER
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograp= h of a strange
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------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C23C9C.C09B6790-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Mon Aug 5 13:41:16 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g75KfE2D009417 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:41:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA04584 for bioastro-list; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:29:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe136.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.129]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04580 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:29:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:28:51 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.86] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: [ApolloArchive] Andrew Chaikin's new book "Space" Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:28:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23C9D.19E2C820" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2002 20:28:51.0023 (UTC) FILETIME=[B5BBC5F0:01C23CBE] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23C9D.19E2C820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Kipp Teague Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:05 AM To: ProjectApollo@yahoogroups.com; ApolloArchive@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ApolloArchive] Andrew Chaikin's new book "Space" Andrew Chaikin's new space photo book is now available in the U.K. and =20 Canada. It will be published in September in the United States. The nam= e =20 of the book, a 256-page hardcover, is "Space: The Final Frontier: A Histo= ry =20 of Space Exploration in Photographs" and it includes a foreword by =20 astronaut James Lovell. Visit the first link (Amazon.co.uk) for a few =20 sample pages: United Kingdom / Amazon.co.uk (now available): http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842224980/retrowebcom Canada / Amazon.ca (now available): http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842224980/retroweb02-20 U.S. / Amazon.com (to be published Sept. 2002): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842224980/kippteaguesretro Book Description SPACE A History of Space Exploration in Photographs Foreword by Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 "If the spaceship had been invented before the camera, mankind's voyages =20 into the void would not have been nearly as exciting, inspiring, or cool.= =20 Fortunately, we don't have to take somebody's word that space looks even =20 more glorious than the mind can imagine or words can describe. The =20 photographs in this book capture a vision of the Heavens and our Earth wi= th =20 a crystal clarity which we are lucky enough to see with our own eyes." =E2=80=93 TOM HANKS "The immensity...the beauty...the challenge...the triumphs and the =20 tragedies... all are captured in Andy Chaikin's elegant photo history, SP= ACE." - NEIL ARMSTRONG In this rapidly developing and highly technological age, it is easy take =20 the miracle of space exploration for granted. Yet just fifty years ago th= e =20 idea of a man setting foot on the Moon was the stuff of dreams; indeed it= =20 is only forty years since the first American earth orbit. In Space: A =20 History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Andrew Chaikin, =20 internationally renowned space expert and best selling author, has select= ed =20 300 colour and black and white photographs from the finest American, =20 Russian and European sources to provide a chronological history of the =20 space race and beyond. Among the events captured are the momentous flight of Yuri Gagarin, the =20 early Mercury spaceflights, the historic Apollo 11 mission, and the long =20 lifetime of the Russian Mir Space station, as well as stunning photograph= s =20 taken by satellite craft such as Viking and the Hubble Space Telescope. =20 Space is split into themes, from Dreams of Space to The Twenty-First =20 Century, yet maintains a chronological timeline so it remains accessible =20 and coherent. Andrew Chaikin introduces each chapter with an informed =20 overview that brings to life the photographs he has selected. Space is the most comprehensive celebration of space photography by the =20 world's foremost space historian, Andrew Chaikin. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ApolloArchive-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/= =20 ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23C9D.19E2C820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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To: ProjectApollo@yahoogroups.com; ApolloArchive@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ApolloArchive] Andrew Chaik= in's new book "Space"
 

Andrew Chaikin's new spa= ce photo book is now available in the U.K. and
Canada.  It will = be published in September in the United States.  The name
of the= book, a 256-page hardcover, is "Space: The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs" and it includes a foreword by
a= stronaut James Lovell.  Visit the first link (Amazon.co.uk) for a fe= w
sample pages:

United Kingdom / Amazon.co.uk (now available):=
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842224980/retrowebcom
Canada / Amazon.ca (now available):
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos= /ASIN/1842224980/retroweb02-20

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Book Description
SPACE
A History of Space Expl= oration in Photographs
Foreword by Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 1= 3
"If the spaceship had been invented before the camera, mankind's voy= ages
into the void would not have been nearly as exciting, inspiring,= or cool.
Fortunately, we don't have to take somebody's word that spa= ce looks even
more glorious than the mind can imagine or words can de= scribe. The
photographs in this book capture a vision of the Heavens = and our Earth with
a crystal clarity which we are lucky enough to see= with our own eyes."
=E2=80=93 TOM HANKS

"The immensity...the b= eauty...the challenge...the triumphs and the
tragedies... all are cap= tured in Andy Chaikin's elegant photo history, SPACE."
- NEIL ARMSTRON= G

In this rapidly developing and highly technological age, it is e= asy take
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early Mercury spac= eflights, the historic Apollo 11 mission, and the long
lifetime of th= e Russian Mir Space station, as well as stunning photographs
taken by= satellite craft such as Viking and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space= is split into themes, from Dreams of Space to The Twenty-First
Centu= ry, yet maintains a chronological timeline so it remains accessible
a= nd coherent. Andrew Chaikin introduces each chapter with an informed
= overview that brings to life the photographs he has selected.
Space is= the most comprehensive celebration of space photography by the
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------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23C9D.19E2C820-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Tue Aug 6 08:13:17 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g76FDF2D015696 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA05945 for bioastro-list; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:50:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe58.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.200]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05941 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:50:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:49:39 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.79] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: [Spaceref-daily] SpaceRef Newsletter - 6 August 2002 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:48:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23D36.DF091D40" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2002 14:49:39.0962 (UTC) FILETIME=[7DF80DA0:01C23D58] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23D36.DF091D40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: spaceref-daily-admin@apollo.aterra.com Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:44 AM To: spaceref-daily@apollo.aterra.com Subject: [Spaceref-daily] SpaceRef Newsletter - 6 August 2002 SpaceRef - Your Space Reference http://www.spaceref.com/ ___________________________________________________________ THE DAY IN SPACE =20 ________________ =20 In today's space news from SpaceRef: -- First journey for Europe's first Moon-mapping instrument =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8968 =20 An instrument that will map the entire surface of the Moon and determine = the minerals and =20 elements in its rocks is due to be delivered to the European Space Agency= (ESA) this week. =20 The D-CIXS instrument is a tiny imaging X-ray spectrometer the size of a = toaster and =20 weighing less than 5 kilograms. =20 -- Satellites Reveal Mystery of Large Change in Earth's Gravity Field =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8967 =20 Satellite data collected since 1998 from the U.S./French ocean-observing = satellite =20 Topex/Poseidon, indicate the bulge in Earth's gravity field at the equato= r is growing, and =20 scientists think that the ocean may hold the answer to the mystery of how= the changes in the =20 trend of Earth's gravity are occurring. =20 -- Old fuel, new engine: NASA Space Launch Initiative's next generation r= eusable launch =20 vehicle may fly on kerosene =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8961 =20 Kerosene - almost as common to American life as gasoline - is being consi= dered as a fuel =20 for two main engine candidates for a second generation reusable launch ve= hicle, now in =20 development by the Space Launch Initiative. -- AQUA Spacecraft Enters Safe Mode =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6142 =20 On Monday, July 29, 2002 the Ayp(Hentered Earth Pointing Safe Mode and s= ignaled the EOC =20 via it's "911 Alarm". Aqua is currently in Earth pointing mode and all in= struments are in "safe" =20 mode. =20 STATUS REPORTS =20 ______________ =20 For more status reports click here: =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/statusreports.html =20 Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #3171 - 6 Aug 2002 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6162 =20 Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #3170 - 5 Aug 2002 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6161 =20 Individual Trip Aviation Weather Forecast Service =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6160 =20 July 15 - August 11, 2002 The Next Four Weeks on Galileo =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6159 =20 NASA Launch Services Request for Proposal - Open Season =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6158 =20 Request for Information (RFI) Pertaining to Proposed NASA Nuclear Systems= Initative =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6157 =20 NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) Support =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6156 =20 Near-Term Beamed Energy Propulsion Feasability Study =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6155 =20 Databook Support: Pluto Kuiper Belt Mission =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6154 =20 Notice of Intent to Negotiate a Collaboration Agreement Related to the NA= SA Mars =20 Exploration Rover-2003 Project =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6153 =20 Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 5 Aug 2002 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6150 =20 ISS On-Orbit Status 5 Aug 2002 =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6149 =20 Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Promethei Terra =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6148 =20 Mars Global Surveyor Weekly Weather Report 5 Aug 2002 - Solar Conjunction= =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6147 =20 National Environmental Policy Act; Mars Exploration Rover-2003 Project =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6141 =20 ___________________________________________________ =20 Do you use a Palm Pilot or other hand held device? =20 If so try the SpaceRef AvantGo Channel and take =20 the news wherever you go. =20 http://www.spaceref.com/gomobile.html ___________________________________________________ =20 PRESS RELEASES =20 ______________ =20 For more press releases click here: =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/press.html =20 Open Forum Meeting Concerning NASA's Procurement Policies =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8969 =20 JSC Team Named NASA Software of the Year Award Co-winner =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8966 =20 NASA Researchers Help Local Law Enforcement Agencies Catch Crime Suspects= =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8965 =20 Planetary Society Awards Three Scholarships =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8964 =20 Space Law Pre-Symposium Seminar added to International Space Symposium Ag= enda =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8963 =20 Sponsors and Exhibitors Support International Space Symposium =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8962 =20 NASDA Report No. 121 Now Available Online =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8960 =20 Results of the initial development phase of the project for space launche= r system Onega =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8959 =20 Shuttle motor test, crew visit is success =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8958 =20 Status of ISS Expedition Subject of August 8 Briefing =20 http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8957 =20 _______________________________________________________________ To remove yourself from this mailing list click the link below; http://www.spaceref.com/goremove.html _______________________________________________________________ SpaceRef is a privately held company based out of Reston, Virginia, U.S.A. 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----- Original Message -----
From: spaceref-daily-admin@apollo.aterra.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:44 AM
To: spaceref-daily@apollo.aterra.com
Subject: [Spaceref-daily] SpaceRef News= letter - 6 August 2002
 
SpaceRef - Your Space Refer= ence
http://www.spaceref.com/
_____________________________________= ______________________

THE DAY IN SPACE
________________
I= n today's space news from SpaceRef:

-- First journey for Europe's = first Moon-mapping instrument
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.htm= l?pid=3D8968

An instrument that will map the entire surface of th= e Moon and determine the minerals and
elements in its rocks is due to= be delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) this week.
The D-CIX= S instrument is a tiny imaging X-ray spectrometer the size of a toaster a= nd
weighing less than 5 kilograms.


-- Satellites Reveal M= ystery of Large Change in Earth's Gravity Field
http://www.spaceref.c= om/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8967

Satellite data collected since 199= 8 from the U.S./French ocean-observing satellite
Topex/Poseidon, indi= cate the bulge in Earth's gravity field at the equator is growing, and scientists think that the ocean may hold the answer to the mystery of h= ow the changes in the
trend of Earth's gravity are occurring.

-- Old fuel, new engine: NASA Space Launch Initiative's next generat= ion reusable launch
vehicle may fly on kerosene
http://www.spacer= ef.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8961

Kerosene - almost as common to= American life as gasoline - is being considered as a fuel
for two ma= in engine candidates for a second generation reusable launch vehicle, now= in
development by the Space Launch Initiative.


-- AQUA Sp= acecraft Enters Safe Mode
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pi= d=3D6142

On Monday, July 29, 2002  the Ayp(Hentered Earth Po= inting Safe Mode and signaled the EOC
via it's "911 Alarm". Aqua is c= urrently in Earth pointing mode and all instruments are in "safe"
mod= e. 

STATUS REPORTS
______________

For more statu= s reports click here:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/statusreports.html=

Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #3171 - 6 Aug 2002
http:= //www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6162

Hubble Space Teles= cope Daily Report #3170 - 5 Aug 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/news/vie= wsr.html?pid=3D6161

Individual Trip Aviation Weather Forecast Ser= vice
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6160

July= 15 - August 11, 2002 The Next Four Weeks on Galileo
http://www.space= ref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6159

NASA Launch Services Request = for Proposal - Open Season
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?p= id=3D6158

Request for Information (RFI) Pertaining to Proposed NA= SA Nuclear Systems Initative
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html= ?pid=3D6157

NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) Support
h= ttp://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6156

Near-Term Beam= ed Energy Propulsion Feasability Study
http://www.spaceref.com/news/v= iewsr.html?pid=3D6155

Databook Support: Pluto Kuiper Belt Mission=
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6154

Notice o= f Intent to Negotiate a Collaboration Agreement Related to the NASA Mars =
Exploration Rover-2003 Project
http://www.spaceref.com/news/views= r.html?pid=3D6153

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical= Activity 5 Aug 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6= 150

ISS On-Orbit Status 5 Aug 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/ne= ws/viewsr.html?pid=3D6149

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Promethei Te= rra
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6148

Mars = Global Surveyor Weekly Weather Report 5 Aug 2002 - Solar Conjunction
= http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6147

National Envi= ronmental Policy Act; Mars Exploration Rover-2003 Project
http://www.= spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3D6141


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Do you use a Palm Pilot or other hand= held device?
If so try the SpaceRef AvantGo Channel and take
the= news wherever you go.
http://www.spaceref.com/gomobile.html
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PRESS RELEASES ______________

For more press releases click here:
http://ww= w.spaceref.com/news/press.html

Open Forum Meeting Concerning NASA= 's Procurement Policies
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D= 8969

JSC Team Named NASA Software of the Year Award Co-winner http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8966

NASA Researc= hers Help Local Law Enforcement Agencies Catch Crime Suspects
http://= www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8965

Planetary Society Aw= ards Three Scholarships
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D= 8964

Space Law Pre-Symposium Seminar added to International Space= Symposium Agenda
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8963=

Sponsors and Exhibitors Support International Space  Sympos= ium
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8962

NASDA= Report No. 121 Now Available Online
http://www.spaceref.com/news/vie= wpr.html?pid=3D8960

Results of the initial development phase of t= he project for space launcher system Onega
http://www.spaceref.com/ne= ws/viewpr.html?pid=3D8959

Shuttle motor test, crew visit is succe= ss
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8958

Status= of ISS Expedition Subject of August 8 Briefing
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23E25.F1887840-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Aug 7 12:57:12 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g77JvBCt002216 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01264 for bioastro-list; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:44:30 -0400 (EDT) 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 PAA01251; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:43:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:42:50 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.131] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:42:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23E29.12F78DB0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2002 19:42:50.0490 (UTC) FILETIME=[9D275DA0:01C23E4A] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23E29.12F78DB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: Space Environment Center Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:17 PM To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #02- 32 2002 August 06 at 10:37 a.m. MDT (2002 August 06 1637 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For July 29-August 4 Space weather ranged from minor to strong levels. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts occurred on July 29, 31, and August 2 due to moderate-sized solar flares. A category R3 (strong) radio blackout occurred on August 3 at 1:07 p.m. MDT (2002 August 03 1907 UTC) due to a major solar flare. A category R2 (moderate) radio blackout occurred on August 4 at 3:55 a.m. MDT (2002 August 04 0955 UTC), also due to a major solar flare. Category G1(minor) to G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm conditions occurred on August 2. Category G1 conditions also occurred on August 1 and August 3 - 4. The geomagnetic storms were due to multiple CME passages. 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 August 7-13 Space weather is expected to decrease to minor levels. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts are possible during the period. There is a slight chance for brief category G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm conditions during August 7 - 8. No 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. For more information, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather Advisories Web site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127. The NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at Barbara.McGehan@noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288. ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23E29.12F78DB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Space Environment Center
Sent:= Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:17 PM
To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov
Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook
 Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Cent= er
Boulder, Colorado, USA

SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #02- 3= 2
2002 August 06 at 10:37 a.m. MDT (2002 August 06 1637 UTC)

**= ** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For July 29-August 4
Spac= e weather ranged from minor to strong levels. Isolated category R1
(mi= nor) radio blackouts occurred on July 29, 31, and August 2 due to
mode= rate-sized solar flares. A category R3 (strong) radio blackout
occurre= d on August 3 at 1:07 p.m. MDT (2002 August 03 1907 UTC) due to
a majo= r solar flare. A category R2 (moderate) radio blackout occurred
on Aug= ust 4 at 3:55 a.m. MDT (2002 August 04 0955 UTC), also due to a
major = solar flare. Category G1(minor) to G2 (moderate) geomagnetic
storm con= ditions occurred on August 2. Category G1 conditions also
occurred on = August 1 and August 3 - 4. The geomagnetic storms were due
to multiple= CME passages. 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 August= 7-13
Space weather is expected to decrease to minor levels. Isolated = category
R1 (minor) radio blackouts are possible during the period. Th= ere is a
slight chance for brief category G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm=
conditions during August 7 - 8. No solar radiation storms are
expe= cted.

Data used to provide space weather services are contributed = by NOAA,
USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Se= rvices
and other observatories, universities, and institutions. For mo= re
information, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather
A= dvisories Web site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127.
T= he NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at
Barbara.McGehan@n= oaa.gov or (303) 497-6288.
------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23E29.12F78DB0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Wed Aug 7 13:03:55 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g77K3sCt028436 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA01310 for bioastro-list; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:51:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe93.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.235]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01306 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:51:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:32 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.131] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 7, 2002 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:50:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23E2A.2099E3E0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2002 19:50:32.0258 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0639220:01C23E4B] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23E2A.2099E3E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today in Science/Astronomy: * Superfast VASIMR Rocket in Funding Limbo http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/vasimr_rocket_020807-1= .html Trimming travel time between Earth and various space targets is crucial t= o keeping human and robotic surveys of the solar system prospering into t= he 21st Century. * New Simulation Builds Milky Way from Dawn of Universe http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/milkyway_simulation_020807.html It might have taken Nature a few billion years to build the Milky Way, bu= t Lisa Wright and her colleagues did it in three months. That's how long = it took their new computer simulation to create our home galaxy, starting= with nothing but the foggy matter of the newborn universe and some physi= cs assumptions. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Astronotes: Russian Run-in with Space Debris? http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html Space surveillance experts at the U.S. Air Force Space Command near Color= ado Springs, Colorado noticed a new object near Russia's Cosmos 539. It a= ppears a chunk of space junk knocked off a piece of the 30-year old space= craft. Radar scans back in May first detected the fragment breaking free = of the Russian satellite. * NASA's Aqua Satellite Generates First 3-D Storm Data http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/aqua_images_020806.html Early images from NASA's Aqua satellite, released today, provide a unique= 3-D view of a tropical cyclone and show the orbiting craft's Atmospheric= Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is working as expected. * New Image Gallery: Mars Base of the Future? http://www.space.com/spaceviews/ The stunning art of John Frassanito and Associates offer these views of a= possible future Mars expedition. ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 7, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be mostly moderate over the next three days= . There is a very slight chance, however, that one of the regions behind = west limb could produce another major flare or proton producing event. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly unsettled for the next= three days. There is a possibility, however, for some isolated active pe= riods Wednesday as a coronal hole will be rotating into favorable positio= n at that time. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 150, and the solar wind speed recently cloc= ked in at 445 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.7 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 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23E2A.2099E3E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Today in Scien= ce/Astronomy:

* Superfast VASIMR Rocket in Funding Limbo
http:/= /www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/vasimr_rocket_020807-1.html<= BR>
Trimming travel time between Earth and various space targets is cr= ucial to keeping human and robotic surveys of the solar system prospering= into the 21st Century.

* New Simulation Builds Milky = Way from Dawn of Universe
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/milkyw= ay_simulation_020807.html

It might have taken Nature a few billion= years to build the Milky Way, but Lisa Wright and her colleagues did it = in three months. That's how long it took their new computer simulation to= create our home galaxy, starting with nothing but the foggy matter of th= e newborn universe and some physics assumptions.

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

Today in SpaceFlight:

* Astronotes: Russ= ian Run-in with Space Debris?
http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.h= tml

Space surveillance experts at the U.S. Air Force Space Command= near Colorado Springs, Colorado noticed a new object near Russia's Cosmo= s 539. It appears a chunk of space junk knocked off a piece of the 30-yea= r old spacecraft. Radar scans back in May first detected the fragment bre= aking free of the Russian satellite.

* NASA's Aqua Satellite Gener= ates First 3-D Storm Data
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/aqua_i= mages_020806.html

Early images from NASA's Aqua satellite, release= d today, provide a unique 3-D view of a tropical cyclone and show the orb= iting craft's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is working as expected.=

* New Image Gallery: Mars Base of the Future?
http://www.space= .com/spaceviews/

The stunning art of John Frassanito and Associate= s offer these views of a possible future Mars expedition.

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

SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (August 7, 2= 002)

3-Day Solar Forecast
Solar activity is expected to be most= ly moderate over the next three days. There is a very slight chance, howe= ver, that one of the regions behind west limb could produce another major= flare or proton producing event.

3-Day Aurora Forecast
Earth's= geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly unsettled for the next three = days. There is a possibility, however, for some isolated active periods W= ednesday as a coronal hole will be rotating into favorable position at th= at time.

Solar Data
The current sunspot number is 150, and the = solar wind speed recently clocked in at 445 kilometers per second.
The solar wind density was 3.7 protons per cubic centimeter.

(Spe= ed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.)
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html

 ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C23E2A.2099E3E0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 12:41:50 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78JfnCt018274 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA03089 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:28:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe76.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.218]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03085 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:28:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:27:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Mars Global Surveyor - 2002 Solar Conjunction Sampler Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:27:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23EF0.1F8B2100" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 19:27:48.0904 (UTC) FILETIME=[AE2E0280:01C23F11] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23EF0.1F8B2100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:46 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Mars Global Surveyor - 2002 Solar Conjunction Sampler http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/8_2002_releases/index.html Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) 2002 Solar Conjunction Sampler MGS MOC Releases MOC2-316 to MOC2-319, 8 August 2002 The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) was turned off o= n July 31, 2002, and it will remain off until at least August 19, 2002. Dur= ing this time, Mars is behind the Sun relative to Earth, and communication wi= th the spacecraft is extremely limited (for several days, there will be no communication at all). MOC is off during this time because any images it might acquire could not be transmitted to Earth, and the twice-weekly targeting schedules can not be sent to the spacecraft. Solar Conjunction is the term used to describe the period when the Sun is between Earth and Mars---from the Earth, Mars appears to move towards, an= d eventually merge with, the Sun. Solar Conjunction comes around about ever= y 25 months, the first solar conjunction for MGS occurred in May 1998, the second in June/July 2000, the third in August 2002. Each time, the MOC wa= s turned off and safely returned to service after the conjunction period ended. With the MOC "on vacation," the MOC Operations Team can also take a short breather, having commanded over 125,000 images over the past 4+ years. However, "short" is the operative word, as in a few days the team will be hard at work preparing for the MOC turn-on later in the month. The pictur= es shown here (click on icons, below) are examples of some of the things the MOC team has been seeing in the past few months leading up to Solar Conjunction, including continued monitoring of mid-latitude gullies, dust devils, and chance observations of unusual landforms. [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] MOC2-316 MOC2-317 MOC2-318 MOC2-319 Meridiani Crater Newton Gullies Dust Devil "Inca City" ------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23EF0.1F8B2100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:46 PM
<= B>To: undisclosed-recipients:;
= Subject: Mars Global Surveyor - 2002 Solar Conjunction Sampler
 
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/8_2002_releases/i= ndex.html

         &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;      Mars Global Surveyor
  &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;           Mars Orbit= er Camera (MOC)
         =             &= nbsp; 2002 Solar Conjunction Sampler

     = ;       MGS MOC Releases MOC2-316 to MOC2-3= 19, 8 August 2002

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Came= ra (MOC) was turned off on
July 31, 2002, and it will remain off until= at least August 19, 2002. During
this time, Mars is behind the Sun re= lative to Earth, and communication with
the spacecraft is extremely li= mited (for several days, there will be no
communication at all). MOC i= s off during this time because any images it
might acquire could not b= e transmitted to Earth, and the twice-weekly
targeting schedules can n= ot be sent to the spacecraft.

Solar Conjunction is the term used t= o describe the period when the Sun is
between Earth and Mars---from th= e Earth, Mars appears to move towards, and
eventually merge with, the = Sun. Solar Conjunction comes around about every
25 months, the first s= olar conjunction for MGS occurred in May 1998, the
second in June/July= 2000, the third in August 2002. Each time, the MOC was
turned off and= safely returned to service after the conjunction period
ended.
With the MOC "on vacation," the MOC Operations Team can also take a shor= t
breather, having commanded over 125,000 images over the past 4+ year= s.
However, "short" is the operative word, as in a few days the team w= ill be
hard at work preparing for the MOC turn-on later in the month. = The pictures
shown here (click on icons, below) are examples of some o= f the things the
MOC team has been seeing in the past few months leadi= ng up to Solar
Conjunction, including continued monitoring of mid-lati= tude gullies, dust
devils, and chance observations of unusual landform= s.

           [I= mage]            [= Image]        [Image]   = ;    [Image]

      &n= bsp;    MOC2-316       =    MOC2-317        MOC2-318&= nbsp;     MOC2-319
     &= nbsp; Meridiani Crater   Newton Gullies    Dust = Devil   "Inca City"

------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C23EF0.1F8B2100-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 12:44:10 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78Ji9Ct031575 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA03107 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:31:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe47.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.127]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03103 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:31:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: One small step ... but only on an hospitable planet! Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:30:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23EF0.92EE5040" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 19:31:01.0168 (UTC) FILETIME=[20C72B00:01C23F12] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23EF0.92EE5040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: science.webmaster@esa.int Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:32 AM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: One small step ... but only on an hospitable planet! Around the world, there is renewed interest in sending a manned mission to other planets in our Solar System. What conditions await future astronauts? Space science provides many clues. Before leaving Earth, scientists want to use robotic spacecraft to find out more about the conditions that human travellers will face once they reach some far-off destination. A flotilla of planetary exploration missions is already providing us with invaluable scientific data about other worlds. Read more at: http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=30357 ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23EF0.92EE5040 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: science.webmaster@esa.int
Sent= : Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:32 AM
To: ljk4@msn.com
Su= bject: One small step ... but only on an hospitable planet!
 


Around the world, there is renewed interest in send= ing a
manned mission to other planets in our Solar System. What
con= ditions await future astronauts? Space science provides
many clues. Be= fore leaving Earth, scientists want to use
robotic spacecraft to find = out more about the conditions
that human travellers will face once the= y reach some far-off
destination. A flotilla of planetary exploration = missions
is already providing us with invaluable scientific data
ab= out other worlds.


Read more at:


ht= tp://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=3D1&cid=3D1&oid=3D303= 57

------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C23EF0.92EE5040-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 12:51:38 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78JpbCt016327 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA03129 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:36:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe85.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.227]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03125 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:36:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:35:36 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: S&T's SkyWatcher's Bulletin for August 7th Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:35:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23EF1.2E8CE020" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 19:35:36.0856 (UTC) FILETIME=[C519D180:01C23F12] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23EF1.2E8CE020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: bulletins@SkyandTelescope.com Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:32 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: S&T's SkyWatcher's Bulletin for August 7th ========================================================================= * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's SKYWATCHER'S BULLETIN - August 7, 2002 * * * ========================================================================= Welcome to S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin. More information on the items below is available on our Web site, SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided. Clear skies! ========================================================================= THE PERSEIDS ARE COMING The Perseids, the most dependable of all meteor showers, reach maximum activity in a moonless sky early next week. The shower should peak late on Sunday and Monday nights (the early morning hours of Monday and Tuesday). > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/meteors/article_649_1.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIRA AT MAXIMUM? This famous long-period variable star should be at or near its maximum brightness of 2nd or 3rd magnitude in the constellation Cetus, the Whale. According to Janet A. Mattei of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Mira's maximum should occur on or around August 5th, give or take a few weeks. For details, including a finder chart, see: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/variablestars/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TWO COMETS IN THE NORTHERN SKY Comet Hoenig passes through the northern circumpolar sky during August and September while remaining near 9th magnitude. Meanwhile even though Comet C/2002 O6 is two magnitudes brighter than Comet Hoenig, it's more difficult to see as it's low in the eastern sky around the time morning twilight begins. More information about both objects can be found on the Comets page of S&T's Web site. > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/comets/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT'S UP TONIGHT? For a daily summary of what's happening in the night sky, be sure to visit "This Week's Sky at a Glance" at: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance/article_110_1.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STALKING THE WILD ECLIPSE (Advertisement) Antarctic Solar Eclipse Expedition November 13-26, 2003 Explore remote mountain summits, hike pristine snowfields, and experience nearly 2 minutes of totality from the bottom of the world. This is a once-in-a-lifetime travel experience, limited to just 38 expedition members. > http://www.tq-international.com/antarctica/Antarctica.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2002 Sky Publishing Corp. S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin is provided as a free service to the astronomical community by the editors of SKY & TELESCOPE magazine. This bulletin may not be redistributed or republished in any form without written permission from Sky Publishing; send e-mail to permissions@SkyandTelescope.com or call +1 617-864-7360. More information about astronomical observing is available on our Web site at http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your address, unsubscribe from S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin, or subscribe to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin, which highlights the latest discoveries from the world's astronomical observatories, go to this address: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/shopatsky/emailsubscribe.asp ======================================================================== ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23EF1.2E8CE020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: bulletins@SkyandTelescope.com
= Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:32 PM
To: ljk4@msn.com
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* * * SKY & TELESCOPE's SKYWATCHER'S BULLETIN - August = 7, 2002 * * *

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Welcome to S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin. More infor= mation on the items
below is available on our Web site, SkyandTelescop= e.com, at the URLs
provided. Clear skies!
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THE PERSEIDS ARE COMING=

The Perseids, the most dependable of all meteor showers, reach ma= ximum
activity in a moonless sky early next week. The shower should pe= ak late on
Sunday and Monday nights (the early morning hours of Monday= and Tuesday).

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/m= eteors/article_649_1.asp

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MIRA AT MAXIMUM?

This famou= s long-period variable star should be at or near its maximum
brightnes= s of 2nd or 3rd magnitude in the constellation Cetus, the Whale.
Accor= ding to Janet A. Mattei of the American Association of Variable Star
O= bservers, Mira's maximum should occur on or around August 5th, give ortake a few weeks. For details, including a finder chart, see:

>= ; http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/variablestars/

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<= BR>TWO COMETS IN THE NORTHERN SKY

Comet Hoenig passes through the = northern circumpolar sky during August and
September while remaining n= ear 9th magnitude. Meanwhile even though Comet
C/2002 O6 is two magnit= udes brighter than Comet Hoenig, it's more
difficult to see as it's lo= w in the eastern sky around the time morning
twilight begins. More inf= ormation about both objects can be found on the
Comets page of S&T= 's Web site.

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/com= ets/

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WHAT'S UP TONIGHT?

For a daily summary of what'= s happening in the night sky, be sure to visit
"This Week's Sky at a G= lance" at:

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance/art= icle_110_1.asp

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------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23EF1.2E8CE020-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 13:10:33 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78KAWCt005482 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA03201 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:53:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe137.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.130]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03197 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:53:05 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Horseflies and Meteors Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:52:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23EF3.A0E67CB0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 19:53:05.0464 (UTC) FILETIME=[361EB380:01C23F15] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23EF3.A0E67CB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:17 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Horseflies and Meteors http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07aug_horseflies.htm =20 Horseflies and Meteors NASA Science News August 7, 2002 Like bugs streaking down the side window of a moving car, colorful Persei= d Earthgrazers could put on a remarkable show before midnight on August 12t= h and 13th. Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess. The next time that happens to you, instead of feeling grossed out, try thinking of the experience as an astronomy lesson. Your car is Earth. The bugs are tiny flakes of comet dust. The carnage on your windshield ... it= 's a meteor shower. Kids love the analogy; indeed, it's a good one. Earth, like a speeding car, races around the Sun sweeping up everything i= n its path. There are no insects in space, but there are plenty of small asteroids and bits of comet dust. They hit Earth's atmosphere--splat!--an= d disintegrate as fiery streaks of light called meteors. Beginning this Sunday evening, August 11th, lots of meteors will appear o= ver Earth's northern hemisphere when our planet plows through a dense swarm o= f dust shed by periodic comet Swift-Tuttle. The disintegrating specks will unleash a beautiful meteor shower called the Perseids, which peaks on Aug= ust 12th and 13th. Coincidentally, many of those specks, which scientists call meteoroids, w= ill be about the size of tiny insects--perhaps as small as a flea or a mite. They make vivid streaks across the sky not because they're big, but becau= se they are fast-moving. Perseid meteoroids hit our atmosphere traveling 59 km/s (132,000 mph). Like bugs, meteoroids accumulate mostly on the front windshield. In this case, we mean the front windshield of our planet. Earth's windshield is t= he atmosphere. The atmosphere protects us from the solar wind and assorted b= its of space debris much as a car's windshield deflects the elements from its passengers. Earth's front windshield is the early morning sky. Earth circles the Sun dawn-side first, scooping up whatever lies on that side of the planet. Because Earth rotates once a day, everyone gets a daily turn looking out = the front windshield. It's overhead around 6 a.m. local time. Those dark hour= s just before sunrise are usually the best for meteor watching. That's why most experts suggest looking for Perseids just before dawn. No matter where you live, the shower will climax when Earth's "front windshield" is overhead. But Earth, like a car, has many windows; the front isn't the only one. Wh= at about the others? Rear windows tend to be dull. Not many bugs accumulate on the rear pane o= f a car and, likewise, not many meteoroids catch up to Earth from behind. Earth's "rear window," the early evening sky around 6 p.m., is not a good place to look for shooting stars. Side windows (the ones to the left and right of passengers in cars) are m= ore interesting. Zooming down a bug-infested country lane, side windows don't collect many insects. But the ones they do collect are worth examining. B= ugs that strike side windows do so at a shallow angle; they leave remarkable streaks, long and colorful. This happens to meteors, too. Go outside on Sunday, August 11th during th= e hours just after 9 p.m. The constellation Perseus--the source of the Perseids--will lie low in the northeastern sky. Meteors streaming from Perseus then will skim the atmosphere horizontally, much like a bug skimm= ing the side window of an automobile. Astronomers call such shooting stars "Earthgrazers." They leave colorful, long-lasting trails. "These meteors are extremely long," says Robert Lunsford, secretary gener= al of the International Meteor Organization. "I've never been able to captur= e an Earthgrazer on film. Being shy, they tend to hug the horizon rather th= an shooting overhead where most cameras are aimed." "There are exceptions," he added. "The most spectacular Earthgrazer I eve= r saw was a Leonid. I was facing east when a vivid orange streak crawled ov= er the hill low in the east. It climbed high [and traversed the southern sky= ]. The event lasted at least 5 seconds--an eternity for a meteor watcher." "Earthgrazers are rarely numerous," cautions Bill Cooke, a member of the Space Environments team at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "But even if you only see a few, you're likely to remember them." If you don't spot any on Sunday night, he added, try again after nightfal= l on Monday, August 12th. The shower will still be going strong and Earthgrazers will be possible then, too. Perseid Earthgrazers: shy, remarkable, long, colorful. And no gooey resid= ue. Catch some if you can! Editor's note: This story offers a casual definition of Earthgrazer -- i.= e., any meteor that skims more or less horizontally through the atmosphere an= d leaves a long, colorful trail. Meteor scientists use a more precise definition: "We say that an Earthgrazer is a meteor that comes from a poi= nt that is below the horizon -- usually between 0 and 10 degrees below," not= es Bill Cooke. ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23EF3.A0E67CB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:17 PM
= To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Horseflies and Meteors
 
http://sci= ence.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07aug_horseflies.htm
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Hors= eflies and Meteors
NASA Science News
August 7, 2002

Like bug= s streaking down the side window of a moving car, colorful Perseid
Ear= thgrazers could put on a remarkable show before midnight on August 12thand 13th.

Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield.
Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast=
moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess= .

The next time that happens to you, instead of feeling grossed ou= t, try
thinking of the experience as an astronomy lesson. Your car is = Earth. The
bugs are tiny flakes of comet dust. The carnage on your win= dshield ... it's
a meteor shower.

Kids love the analogy; indeed= , it's a good one.

Earth, like a speeding car, races around the Su= n sweeping up everything in
its path. There are no insects in space, b= ut there are plenty of small
asteroids and bits of comet dust. They hi= t Earth's atmosphere--splat!--and
disintegrate as fiery streaks of lig= ht called meteors.

Beginning this Sunday evening, August 11th, lot= s of meteors will appear over
Earth's northern hemisphere when our pla= net plows through a dense swarm of
dust shed by periodic comet Swift-T= uttle. The disintegrating specks will
unleash a beautiful meteor showe= r called the Perseids, which peaks on August
12th and 13th.

Coi= ncidentally, many of those specks, which scientists call meteoroids, will=
be about the size of tiny insects--perhaps as small as a flea or a mi= te.
They make vivid streaks across the sky not because they're big, bu= t because
they are fast-moving. Perseid meteoroids hit our atmosphere = traveling 59
km/s (132,000 mph).

Like bugs, meteoroids accumula= te mostly on the front windshield. In this
case, we mean the front win= dshield of our planet. Earth's windshield is the
atmosphere. The atmos= phere protects us from the solar wind and assorted bits
of space debri= s much as a car's windshield deflects the elements from its
passengers= .

Earth's front windshield is the early morning sky. Earth circles= the Sun
dawn-side first, scooping up whatever lies on that side of th= e planet.
Because Earth rotates once a day, everyone gets a daily turn= looking out the
front windshield. It's overhead around 6 a.m. local t= ime. Those dark hours
just before sunrise are usually the best for met= eor watching.

That's why most experts suggest looking for Perseids= just before dawn. No
matter where you live, the shower will climax wh= en Earth's "front
windshield" is overhead.

But Earth, like a ca= r, has many windows; the front isn't the only one. What
about the othe= rs?

Rear windows tend to be dull. Not many bugs accumulate on the = rear pane of a
car and, likewise, not many meteoroids catch up to Eart= h from behind.
Earth's "rear window," the early evening sky around 6 p= .m., is not a good
place to look for shooting stars.

Side windo= ws (the ones to the left and right of passengers in cars) are more
int= eresting. Zooming down a bug-infested country lane, side windows don'tcollect many insects. But the ones they do collect are worth examining. = Bugs
that strike side windows do so at a shallow angle; they leave rem= arkable
streaks, long and colorful.

This happens to meteors, to= o. Go outside on Sunday, August 11th during the
hours just after 9 p.m= . The constellation Perseus--the source of the
Perseids--will lie low = in the northeastern sky. Meteors streaming from
Perseus then will skim= the atmosphere horizontally, much like a bug skimming
the side window= of an automobile. Astronomers call such shooting stars
"Earthgrazers.= " They leave colorful, long-lasting trails.

"These meteors are ext= remely long," says Robert Lunsford, secretary general
of the Internati= onal Meteor Organization. "I've never been able to capture
an Earthgra= zer on film. Being shy, they tend to hug the horizon rather than
shoot= ing overhead where most cameras are aimed."

"There are exceptions,= " he added. "The most spectacular Earthgrazer I ever
saw was a Leonid.= I was facing east when a vivid orange streak crawled over
the hill lo= w in the east. It climbed high [and traversed the southern sky].
The e= vent lasted at least 5 seconds--an eternity for a meteor watcher."
"Earthgrazers are rarely numerous," cautions Bill Cooke, a member of the=
Space Environments team at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "But eve= n if
you only see a few, you're likely to remember them."

If yo= u don't spot any on Sunday night, he added, try again after nightfall
= on Monday, August 12th. The shower will still be going strong and
Eart= hgrazers will be possible then, too.

Perseid Earthgrazers: shy, re= markable, long, colorful. And no gooey residue.
Catch some if you can!=

Editor's note: This story offers a casual definition of Earthgraz= er -- i.e.,
any meteor that skims more or less horizontally through th= e atmosphere and
leaves a long, colorful trail. Meteor scientists use = a more precise
definition: "We say that an Earthgrazer is a meteor tha= t comes from a point
that is below the horizon -- usually between 0 an= d 10 degrees below," notes
Bill Cooke.
------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C23EF3.A0E67CB0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 13:20:17 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78KKGCt020609 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA03250 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:07:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe27.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.107]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03246 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:07:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:07:12 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Discovery May Be Saskatchewan's Largest Meteorite Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:07:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23EF5.A2865F20" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 20:07:12.0476 (UTC) FILETIME=[2EFA79C0:01C23F17] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23EF5.A2865F20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:17 AM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Discovery May Be Saskatchewan's Largest Meteorite http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/news/story.asp?id=3D{1D50AB85-921E-4460-A= B26-10235A1A9C7B} Discovery May Be Saskatchewan's Largest Meteorite Scott Foster The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon - Canada) August 06, 2002 REGINA -- Scientists have discovered what could be Saskatchewan's largest= known meteorite. Between 40 and 50 years ago, a fireball of cosmic rock created a sonic bo= om as it pierced the Earth's atmosphere and crashed just south of Prince Albert= , said Martin Beech, an astronomy professor at the University of Regina. The discovery was made after Beech and Brent Shelest, a geology student at the University of Regina, unearthed details of 15 new meteorite fragme= nts recovered by farmers in the Red Deer Hill area. The isolated fragment findings remained unreported for years. But that changed when area residents became aware of the Prairie Meteorite Search project, a meteori= te recovery effort that has Shelest on a summer quest in search of "odd rock= s." Full story here: http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/news/story.asp?id=3D{1D50AB85-921E-4460-A= B26-10235A1A9C7B} ------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23EF5.A2865F20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Full story here:

http://www.canada.co= m/saskatoon/news/story.asp?id=3D{1D50AB85-921E-4460-AB26-10235A1A9C7B}
------=_NextPart_001_000B_01C23EF5.A2865F20-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 13:30:25 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78KUOCt007472 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA03301 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:14:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe135.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.128]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03297 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:14:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:13:57 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Stardust Spacecraft Reaches For Cosmic Dust Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:13:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23EF6.93464C90" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 20:13:57.0629 (UTC) FILETIME=[2077EAD0:01C23F18] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23EF6.93464C90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:16 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Stardust Spacecraft Reaches For Cosmic Dust 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: Martha J. Heil (818) 354-0850 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2002 STARDUST SPACECRAFT REACHES FOR COSMIC DUST NASA's Stardust spacecraft, on a mission to collect and return the first samples from a comet, began yesterday to collect tiny specks of solid matter, called interstellar dust grains, that permeate the galaxy. "If you look at the Milky Way on a dark night you may see a black band stretching along the center. The band is interstellar dust blocking the light from distant stars. These are the particles that Stardust will be collecting," said Dr. Don Brownlee, an astronomy professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the principal investigator of the Stardust mission. This dust, passing through the solar system like a wind, is made of particles smaller than one-hundredth the width of a human hair. The particles are made of varying amounts of most of the elements in the periodic table. The Stardust mission will use its special formulation of aerogel, the world's lightest solid, to try to capture these small solid particles as the spacecraft travels in the same direction as the dust stream until December 9, 2002. "Stardust's tennis-racket-shaped particle collector has shoulder and wrist joints that will point one side of the aerogel collector material into the dust stream to collect interstellar dust," said Tom Duxbury, the project's manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "When Stardust encounters comet Wild 2 in early 2004, the reverse side of the collector will trap particles from the gas and dust escaping from the inside of the comet. When the dust samples return to Earth in 2006, we will extract and analyze the particles," The Stardust mission collects both ancient and young dust. Comets are made of interstellar particles that clumped together with ices more than 4.5 billion years ago. When the spacecraft flies past comet Wild 2, it will attempt to collect ancient dust samples stored for billions of years in, effectively, a deep freeze. The mission began yesterday collecting a younger type of stardust: the free-flowing interstellar dust that was produced by the current generation of stars. Comparing the ancient and newer types of dust may provide clues to the evolutionary changes in the galaxy and the composition of the early galaxy. This is the second and final time Stardust will collect these dust particles. It previously collected samples during a six-week period in 2000. Comet Wild 2 is a particularly good example of preserved interstellar dust because its path through space brings it no closer to the Sun than Mars' orbit, about 228 million kilometers (about 141 million miles) from the Sun. Before 1974, the closest Wild 2 came to the Sun was Jupiter, Brownlee said. NASA's Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft both detected a stream of dust particles flowing between stars and into the solar system. The particles did not come from the Sun, but from another direction that showed their origin was outside the solar system. Interstellar dust may have played a role in bringing the building blocks of life -- carbon and other organic materials -- to the young Earth. Similarly, comet impacts may have also brought these elements to Earth. Brownlee expects to find a lot of carbon in the interstellar dust particles. "When Earth-like planets form, comets and interstellar grains may bring carbon and organic material," he said. The interstellar dust stream differs from the solar wind in that the solar wind is made of individual atoms, while the interstellar dust is made of small particles of rocks with complex compositions. Stardust, a part of NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost, highly focused science missions, was built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics and Operations, Denver, Colo. and is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. More information on the Stardust mission is available at http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov . #### ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23EF6.93464C90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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http://www.jp= l.nasa.gov

Contact: Martha J. Heil  (818) 354-0850

FOR= IMMEDIATE RELEASE          =   August 6, 2002

STARDUST SPACECRAFT REACHES FOR COSMIC DUST<= BR>
     NASA's Stardust spacecraft, on a mission = to collect and return
the first samples from a comet, began yesterday = to collect tiny
specks of solid matter, called interstellar dust grain= s, that
permeate the galaxy.

     "If you l= ook at the Milky Way on a dark night you may see a
black band stretchi= ng along the center. The band is interstellar
dust blocking the light = from distant stars. These are the
particles that Stardust will be coll= ecting," said Dr. Don Brownlee,
an astronomy professor at the Universi= ty of Washington, Seattle,
and the principal investigator of the Stard= ust mission.

     This dust, passing through t= he solar system like a wind, is
made of particles smaller than one-hun= dredth the width of a human
hair. The particles are made of varying am= ounts of most of the
elements in the periodic table. The Stardust miss= ion will use its
special formulation of aerogel, the world's lightest = solid, to try
to capture these small solid particles as the spacecraft= travels in
the same direction as the dust stream until December 9, 20= 02.

     "Stardust's tennis-racket-shaped part= icle collector has
shoulder and wrist joints that will point one side = of the aerogel
collector material into the dust stream to collect inte= rstellar
dust," said Tom Duxbury, the project's manager at NASA's Jet<= BR>Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.  "When Stardust encounter= s
comet Wild 2 in early 2004, the reverse side of the collector willtrap particles from the gas and dust escaping from the inside of thecomet. When the dust samples return to Earth in 2006, we will
extract= and analyze the particles,"

     The Stardust= mission collects both ancient and young dust.
Comets are made of inte= rstellar particles that clumped together
with ices more than 4.5 billi= on years ago. When the spacecraft
flies past comet Wild 2, it will att= empt to collect ancient dust
samples stored for billions of years in, = effectively, a deep
freeze.

     The missio= n began yesterday collecting a younger type of
stardust: the free-flow= ing interstellar dust that was produced by
the current generation of s= tars. Comparing the ancient and newer
types of dust may provide clues = to the evolutionary changes in the
galaxy and the composition of the e= arly galaxy. This is the second
and final time Stardust will collect t= hese dust particles. It
previously collected samples during a six-week= period in 2000.

     Comet Wild 2 is a partic= ularly good example of preserved
interstellar dust because its path th= rough space brings it no
closer to the Sun than Mars' orbit, about 228= million kilometers
(about 141 million miles) from the Sun. Before 197= 4, the closest
Wild 2 came to the Sun was Jupiter, Brownlee said.
<= BR>     NASA's Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft both de= tected a
stream of dust particles flowing between stars and into thesolar system. The particles did not come from the Sun, but from
anot= her direction that showed their origin was outside the solar
system.
     Interstellar dust may have played a role i= n bringing the
building blocks of life -- carbon and other organic mat= erials --
to the young Earth. Similarly, comet impacts may have also b= rought
these elements to Earth. Brownlee expects to find a lot of carb= on
in the interstellar dust particles. "When Earth-like planets form,<= BR>comets and interstellar grains may bring carbon and organic
materia= l," he said.

     The interstellar dust stream= differs from the solar wind in
that the solar wind is made of individ= ual atoms, while the
interstellar dust is made of small particles of r= ocks with
complex compositions.

     Stardu= st, a part of NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost,
highly focused sci= ence missions, was built by Lockheed Martin
Astronautics and Operation= s, Denver, Colo. and is managed by JPL
for NASA's Office of Space Scie= nce, Washington, D.C. JPL is a
division of the California Institute of= Technology in Pasadena.
More information on the Stardust mission is a= vailable at

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov .

####

------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C23EF6.93464C90-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 13:30:40 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78KUdCt023478 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA03330 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:18:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe28.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.108]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03324 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:18:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:17:42 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: U.S. Military Considers Coordinated Clearinghouse to Monitor and Respond to Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:17:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23EF7.19DBBAB0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 20:17:42.0177 (UTC) FILETIME=[A64F3910:01C23F18] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23EF7.19DBBAB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:57 AM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: U.S. Military Considers Coordinated Clearinghouse to Monitor and= Respond to Asteroid, Comet Threat http://space.com/news/asteroid_watch_020805.html U.S. Military Considers Coordinated Clearinghouse to Monitor and Respond = to Asteroid, Comet Threat By Leonard David space.com 05 August 2002 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO -- The U.S. Space Command is reviewing a plan = to create a clearinghouse that gathers and analyzes data regarding impending Earth impacts from asteroids or comets. The information node would also assess possible damage stemming from an incoming object. Such a clearinghouse, if established, would merge military and civilian talent t= o help minimize damage and loss of life due to a strike from space. Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Space, Air and Information Group undertook the study here, labeling it the Natural Impac= t Warning Clearinghouse Concept of Operations. The report's range of findings and recommendations are now under consideration by high level officials within the U.S. Space Command, the organization that funded the work. Full story here: http://space.com/news/asteroid_watch_020805.html ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23EF7.19DBBAB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:57 AM
<= B>To: undisclosed-recipients:;
= Subject: U.S. Military Considers Coordinated Clearinghouse to Moni= tor and Respond to Asteroid, Comet Threat
 

http= ://space.com/news/asteroid_watch_020805.html

U.S. Military Conside= rs Coordinated Clearinghouse to Monitor and Respond to
Asteroid, Comet= Threat
By Leonard David
space.com
05 August 2002

COLORAD= O SPRINGS, COLORADO -- The U.S. Space Command is reviewing a plan to
c= reate a clearinghouse that gathers and analyzes data regarding impending<= BR>Earth impacts from asteroids or comets. The information node would als= o
assess possible damage stemming from an incoming object. Such a
c= learinghouse, if established, would merge military and civilian talent to=
help minimize damage and loss of life due to a strike from space.
=
Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Space, Air an= d
Information Group undertook the study here, labeling it the Natural = Impact
Warning Clearinghouse Concept of Operations.

The report'= s range of findings and recommendations are now under
consideration by= high level officials within the U.S. Space Command, the
organization = that funded the work.

Full story here:

http://space.com/new= s/asteroid_watch_020805.html
------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23EF7.19DBBAB0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Thu Aug 8 13:37:26 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78KbPCt009026 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id QAA03389 for bioastro-list; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:24:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe33.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.113]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03385 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:24:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:23:38 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.173] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Was the speed of light once faster? Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:23:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000E_01C23EF7.EDF7F610" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2002 20:23:38.0456 (UTC) FILETIME=[7AAB1580:01C23F19] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C23EF7.EDF7F610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Speed of light has changed, claims Macquarie physicist http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8991 Australian theoretical physicist, Professor Paul Davies, has proposed tha= t one of the so-called "constants" of the universe -- the speed of light -- has in fac= t slowed over time, a revelation that will cause a rethink of many of our accepted laws of phys= ics as well as our "understanding" of the beginning of the universe. -- X-ray Arcs Tell The Tale of Giant Eruption http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8981 Long ago, a giant eruption occurred in a nearby galaxy and plunged it int= o turmoil. Now NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the remains of that explosi= on in the form of two enormous arcs of hot gas. This discovery can help astronomers better = understand the cause and effect of violent outbursts from the vicinity of supermassive b= lack holes in the centers of many so-called "active" galaxies. TODAY'S CALENDAR EVENTS _______________________ NAC SSAC Structure and Evolution of the Universe Subcommittee Meeting http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1691 5th International Mars Society Conference http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1568 Workshop On Gamma Ray Bursts Across the Spectrum http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1567 Conference: The IGM/Galaxy Connection http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1566 ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C23EF7.EDF7F610 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Speed of light= has changed, claims Macquarie physicist

Australian theoretical physi= cist, Professor Paul Davies, has proposed that one of the
so-called "c= onstants" of the universe -- the speed of light -- has in fact slowed ove= r time, a
revelation that will cause a rethink of many of our accepted= laws of physics as well as our
"understanding" of the beginning of th= e universe.


-- X-ray Arcs Tell The Tale of Giant Eruption
h= ttp://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3D8981

Long ago, a gia= nt eruption occurred in a nearby galaxy and plunged it into turmoil. Now<= BR>NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the remains of that expl= osion in the form of
two enormous arcs of hot gas. This discovery can = help astronomers better understand the
cause and effect of violent out= bursts from the vicinity of supermassive black holes in the
centers of= many so-called "active" galaxies.



TODAY'S CALENDAR EVENTS=
_______________________

NAC SSAC Structure and Evolution of th= e Universe Subcommittee Meeting
http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calen= dar.html?pid=3D1691

5th International Mars Society Conference
h= ttp://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1568

Workshop = On Gamma Ray Bursts Across the Spectrum
http://www.spaceref.com/calend= ar/calendar.html?pid=3D1567

Conference: The IGM/Galaxy Connection<= BR>http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3D1566


<= /DIV> ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C23EF7.EDF7F610-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 9 07:37:26 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79EbPCt032560 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA05101 for bioastro-list; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:14:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe23.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.103]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05088; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:11:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:11:00 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.53] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: ETI Altruism Radio Program this Sunday night Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:10:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C23F8D.080AF670" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2002 14:11:00.0971 (UTC) FILETIME=[96FB5BB0:01C23FAE] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C23F8D.080AF670 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EXTRATERRESTRIAL ALTRUISM =20 The SETI Institute=E2=80=99s Interstellar Message Group Leader, psycholog= ist Dr. Douglas Vakoch, will be co-hosting the weekly radio program =E2=80= =9CAre We Alone?=E2=80=9D this Sunday evening, August 11, from 9-10 pm ES= T. =20 Vakoch will discuss the SETI Institute=E2=80=99s work in encoding concept= s of altruism in interstellar messages, a project supported by a grant fr= om the John Templeton Foundation. During the second half of the program,= Vakoch will be joined by Dr. Albert Harrison, Professor of Psychology at= the University of California, Davis, to discuss the likelihood that extr= aterrestrial intelligence would be altruistic. =20 Listeners can call toll-free at 1-800-510-TALK during the show to partici= pate. The program can be heard live through the program=E2=80=99s web si= te: http://www.radioamerica.org/listen.html ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C23F8D.080AF670 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

EXT= RATERRESTRIAL ALTRUISM

The SETI Institute=E2= =80=99s Interstellar Message Group Leader, psychologist Dr. Douglas Vakoc= h, will be co-hosting the weekly ra= dio program =E2=80=9CAre We Alone?=E2=80=9D this Sunday evening, August 1= 1, from 9-10 pm EST. 

Vakoch will dis= cuss the SETI Institute=E2=80=99s work in encoding concepts of altruism i= n interstellar messages, a project supported by a grant from the John Tem= pleton Foundation.  During = the second half of the program, Vakoch will be joined by Dr. Albert Harri= son, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, to d= iscuss the likelihood that extraterrestrial intelligence would be altruis= tic. 

<= SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">Listeners can call toll-free at 1= -800-510-TALK during the show to participate.  The program can be heard live through the program=E2=80= =99s web site:

http://www.radioamerica.org/listen.html

 

 



= ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C23F8D.080AF670-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 9 07:38:22 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79EcLCt003384 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA05159 for bioastro-list; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:22:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe39.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.119]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05143; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:19:50 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.53] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Weekend Meteor Watch (and more) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:19:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23F8E.40B22D80" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2002 14:19:50.0433 (UTC) FILETIME=[D290D910:01C23FAF] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23F8E.40B22D80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: SpaceWeather.com Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:48 PM To: SpaceWeather.com Subject: Weekend Meteor Watch (and more) Space Weather News for August 8, 2002 http://www.spaceweather.com METEOR SHOWER: The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is still days away, but sky watchers are already seeing plenty of shooting stars. In recent days, 15 to 25 meteors per hour have streaked across the northern sky during the hours just before dawn. Activity should intensify--perhaps impressively so--on August 12th and 13th when the shower peaks. VENUS AND THE MOON: The planet Venus is so bright this week you can see it before nightfall. On Sunday evening, August 11th, the slender crescent Moon will glide by Venus. Together the pair will be truly eye-catching. Visit spaceweather.com for more information about these events, including a movie of two bright Perseid meteors recorded on August 8th. ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23F8E.40B22D80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: SpaceWeather.com
Sent: Thu= rsday, August 08, 2002 2:48 PM
T= o: SpaceWeather.com
Subject:= Weekend Meteor Watch (and more)
 
Space Weather= News for August 8, 2002
http://www.spaceweather.com

METEOR SHO= WER: The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is still days
away, = but sky watchers are already seeing plenty of shooting stars.  Inrecent days, 15 to 25 meteors per hour have streaked across the northern=
sky during the hours just before dawn. Activity should intensify--per= haps
impressively so--on August 12th and 13th when the shower peaks.
VENUS AND THE MOON: The planet Venus is so bright this week you can= see it
before nightfall. On Sunday evening, August 11th, the slender = crescent
Moon will glide by Venus. Together the pair will be truly eye= -catching.

Visit spaceweather.com for more information about these= events, including
a movie of two bright Perseid meteors recorded on A= ugust 8th.

------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C23F8E.40B22D80-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 9 07:47:12 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79ElACt012458 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA05192 for bioastro-list; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:26:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe25.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.105]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05188 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:26:17 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.53] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Horseflies and Meteors Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:26:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23F8F.2A3C18D0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2002 14:26:17.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[B98DFF00:01C23FB0] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23F8F.2A3C18D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: NASA Science News Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:00 PM To: NASA Science News Subject: Horseflies and Meteors NASA Science News for August 7, 2002 Like bugs streaking down the side window of a moving car, colorful Persei= d Earthgrazers could put on a remarkable show before midnight on August 12t= h and 13th. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07aug_horseflies.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_000A_01C23F8F.2A3C18D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: NASA Science News
Sent: We= dnesday, August 07, 2002 5:00 PM
To: NASA Science News
Subje= ct: Horseflies and Meteors
 
NASA Science News f= or August 7, 2002

Like bugs streaking down the side window of a mo= ving car, colorful Perseid
Earthgrazers could put on a remarkable show= before midnight on August 12th
and 13th.

FULL STORY at

= http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07aug_horseflies.htm?list662745

This is a free service.

Tell a kid you know about NASA K= ids Club -- they collect virtual trading cards, trade them online, have t= heir own e-mail account, and participate in great learning activities for= extra club points. Go to http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Club/Login/SignUp.asp= ?sng for more info.

If you need to get in touch with us directly, = please go to
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------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C23F8F.2A3C18D0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 9 07:58:35 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79EwYCt018536 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA05269 for bioastro-list; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:39:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe136.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.129]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05259; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:37:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:37:20 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.53] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Where would science be if we never saw the stars? Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:37:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23F90.B51C81A0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2002 14:37:20.0039 (UTC) FILETIME=[442E0370:01C23FB2] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23F90.B51C81A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Where would science be if we'd never seen the stars? http://www.newscientist.com/exc/enews.jsp?id=ns99992648 ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23F90.B51C81A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Where would sc= ience be if we'd never seen the stars?
 

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------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C23F90.B51C81A0-- From owner-bioastro@setileague.org Fri Aug 9 11:28:13 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g79ISCCt013303 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA05674 for bioastro-list; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:13:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-bioastro@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe46.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.126]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05670 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:13:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:12:55 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.126] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI bioastro: Fw: Late Afternoon at Taruntius (ESO PR Photos 19a-c/02) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:12:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.2201 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23FAE.CECBFE50" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2002 18:12:55.0480 (UTC) FILETIME=[624DAB80:01C23FD0] Sender: owner-bioastro@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C23FAE.CECBFE50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: esonews@eso.org Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:05 PM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Late Afternoon at Taruntius (ESO PR Photos 19a-c/02) Dear subscribers, we have today published a PR Photo release with a splendid VLT image of a small area of the Moon, cf. http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-19-02.html It was made with the NACO Adaptive Optics camera and is one of the sharpest photos ever made of the Moon from the ground. The comprehensive text describes the circumstances of this exposure and some of the lunar formations seen. There are also several links to other sites with images and information about the Moon. Kind regards, The ESO EPR Dept. ---- Information from the European Southern Observatory ESO Press Photos 19a-c/02 9 August 2002 [ESO= ] For immediate release -----------------------------------------------------------------------= - Late Afternoon at Taruntius Amazingly Sharp VLT Image of Lunar Landscape [ESO PR Photo 19a/02] ESO PR Photo 19a/02 [Preview - JPEG: 400 x 440 pix - 64k] [Full-Res - JPEG: 964 x 1060 pix - 544k] Caption: PR Photo 19a/02 shows a small area of the lunar surface, on the rim of the 56-km crater Taruntius. This formation is located some 6deg No= rth of the lunar equator and near the intersection of Mare Tranquillitatis an= d Mare Foecunditatis in the Eastern hemisphere. It is late in the lunar "day" and the Sun is low above the western horizon. The long shadows greatly enhance the visibility of shallow surface formations. The largest crater in the field (at the top) is named Cameron and measures about 10 k= m across [1]. This photo (in near-infrared light at wavelength 2.3 micron) = was obtained in the morning of April 30, 2002, with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) adaptive optics (AO) camera mounted on the ESO VLT 8.2-m YEPUN telescope at the Paranal Observatory. The on-line AO image corrections were achieve= d by guiding on an illuminated lunar peak, just outside the field shown. This image is "raw", i.e. it has only been subjected to "background subtraction" and cosmetic removal of a few "bad" pixels. Some of the slopes in direct sunlight are overexposed. With angular resolution of about 0.07 arcsec - corresponding to 130 metres at the distance of the Moon - it is undoubtedly one of the sharpest images of the lunar surface, ever obtained with a ground-based telescope. In this reproduction, the North direction is about 10deg to the left of the top, with West to the left. The size of the field is about 25 x 25 arcsec^2; when taking into account the viewing angle, this corresponds to approximately 60 x 45 km^2= . The pixel size is that recorded by NACO, 0.027 arcsec, or approx. 50 metres on the Moon. Thirty-three years after the first manned landing on the Moon, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained what may be the sharpest image of the lunar surface ever recorded from the ground, cf. PR Photo 19a/02. It was made with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) adaptive optics camera mounted on the ESO VLT 8.2-m YEPUN telescope at the Paranal Observatory. The photo shows an area about 700 km from the Apollo XI landing site. The location is in the Eastern hemisphere, just North of the lunar equator, and right between two of the major "seas", Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity) and Mare Foecunditatis (Sea of Fertility). The field-of-view measures about 60 x 45 km^2 (taking into account the foreshortening because of the viewing angle [2]), with part of a sunlit, 10-km wide crater named Cameron [1] surrounded by a comparatively level terrain, bordered by some hills and, not least, with an incredible number of smaller craters. The site of this NACO photo is situated at the rim of an older, rather eroded 56-km crater, Taruntius [1]. A small part of the multiple walls of that crater are seen in the upper right corner and also to the left of the bottom centre of PR Photo 19a/02. The centre of Taruntius is near the lower right corner of the photo. The rather flat terrain to the left in the photo corresponds to an "opening" in the crater walls. At the time of the exposure, the Sun was approximately 7deg above the Western horizon to the left [2], and the shadows are therefore quite prominent, approx. 8 times longer than the elevation of the corresponding peaks and hills. The nominal image sharpness is 0.07 arcsec, or about 130 metres on the lunar surface (in the N-S direction). Elevation differences of a few tens of metres only are therefore visible by the shadows they cast. The VLT image represents what an astronaut (with normal eye acuity of 1 arcmin) would see from 400 km above the surface. Lunar surface formations [ESO PR Photo 19b/02] ESO PR Photo Caption: PR Photo 19b/02 is a 19b/02 computer-processed version of PR Photo 19a/02, in which the lunar surface is now viewed directly "fr= om [Preview - JPEG: 462 x 400 pix - above