archive: Re: SETI Upsilon Andromedae System from APOD
Re: SETI Upsilon Andromedae System from APOD
GRIGOROPOULOS KONSTA ( (no email) )
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:32:21 -0700
Larry Klaes wrote:
>
> Check out the really nice artwork by Lynette Cook:
>
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990416.html
>
> Upsilon Andromedae: An Extra-Solar System
>
> Drawing Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook
>
> Explanation: Yesterday, astronomers announced the discovery
> of the first system of planets around a normal star other than
> our Sun.
>
> Previously, only single planet star systems had been found.
> Subtle changes in the wobble of Upsilon Andromedae, a Sun-like
> star in the constellation of Andromeda, allowed astronomers
> led by R. Paul Butler (AAO) and Geoffrey W. Marcy (SFSU /UCB)
> to make the breakthrough.
>
> This star system is quite different from our own Solar System, however. All
> three detected planets have masses near or above Jupiter.
>
> The discovery implies that multiple-planet systems are quite
> common, increasing speculation that life-bearing planets similar
> to Earth may one day be found.
>
> The drawing above is an artist's depiction of the Upsilon
> Andromedae system and its innermost planet. This planet
> orbits unexpectedly close to its parent star.
>
> http://www.spaceart.org/~lcook/space.html
ATHENS 16/4/1999
Dear friends from USA
More than one year, we took yours letters about seti.New worlds
and planets has found everyday in earth history.But in this point we
have some questions to ask.....
1) did you know than more, than 20 days our neighbours in Servia, are
targets of your Air force?
2) yesterday they attack in a civilian convoy and the result is 57
civilians died.Did you TV canels say those thinks or not?
3) For how more weeks, they still bombing the Balkan teritory?
PLEASE Mr.LARRY answer because we want make SETI and not war.
If you want war make it, in LA OK MA NC NY TX ecc ecc.
With best regards ATTIKA AMATEURS ASTRONOMERS OF
ATHENS GREECE the country were Astronomy born
4000 years ago.