SETI public: WASP Prepares to Search for 1,000 New Exoplanets

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WASP Prepares to Search for a Thousand New Planets

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11649

"Construction has now started in La Palma on the first of three new cameras designed to look for planets
outside our own solar system. To date about a hundred of these planets have been found by teams of scientists
from around the world using various techniques, but the ambitious new WASP project hopes to find over a
thousand new planets similar to Jupiter! "

-- Astronomers "weigh" pulsar's planets

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11654

"For the first time, the planets orbiting a pulsar have been "weighed" by measuring precisely variations in the
time it takes them to complete an orbit, according to a team of astronomers >from the California Institute of
Technology and Pennsylvania State University."

Mars Picture of the Day: Old Arabian Crater
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9305

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report # 3372
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9304

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Grooved Terrain
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9303

Mars Picture of the Day: Gullies in Terraced Crater Wall
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9298

Electron nanodiffraction technique offers atomic resolution imaging
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11651

XMM-Newton satellite uncovers X-ray emission and X-ray pulsar in Andromeda
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11644

RHESSI's Lucky Break May Lead to Secret of Ultimate Explosions
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11641

Conference: The Riddle of Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=1883

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