From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 06:33:21 PDT
Project Phoenix and the New Search System
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_backus_021024.html
Ten years ago, NASA began a targeted search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Arecibo Observatory. Using technology, the Targeted Search System (TSS), largely developed by the SETI Institute, humanity's most sophisticated SETI program began. One year later, the search was terminated by a budget-conscious US Congress. Fortunately, the Institute secured the long-term loan of the equipment from NASA. Then with private funding, doubled the size and capability of the TSS, adding the unique ability to immediately test possible signals using two widely separated telescopes. Since 1995, under the name of Project Phoenix, Institute scientists and engineers have conducted the world's most sensitive and comprehensive SETI program.
* Astronotes: Black Hole Eats Star, Grad Student Watches in Amazement
http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html
Graduate student Feng Ma of the University of Texas at Austin didn't expect to see a black hole swallow a star when he pointed a telescope at the next quasar on a list of about 60 he's studying. Ma is examining these bright galaxies, anchored by black holes, to see how they change over time.
* Smallest Known Extrasolar Planet Possibly Found
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/epsilon_planet_021023.html
New research reveals what could be the smallest planet ever found outside our solar system in a long, Pluto-like orbit around its star.
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