From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 07:27:04 PDT
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Looking for Carbonates in Dry Places
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article290.html
A research team claims it has found carbonates in dust around two dying stars, where water cannot exist. If the finding is confirmed, astronomers may have to re-think some assumptions about the presence of water during the formation of our own solar system. But both the discovery and its implications are in question.
Beyond Pluto: Ice Planet
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article289.html
The Hubble Telescope astronomers have found beyond Pluto, a distant object with the volume of all the asteroids combined. Unlike the long-contested 'Planet X', this candidate is one of a myriad of exotic, comet-like worlds (otherwise known as 'Kuiper Belt Objects', or KBOs). Approximately half the size of Pluto, the icy world-- 2002 LM60, dubbed "Quaoar" (pronounced kwa-whar) by its discoverers,-- is the farthest object in the solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope.
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