From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 05:49:53 PST
>From: "Astrobiology Magazine"<astronaut_at_astrobio.net>
>To: ljk4_at_msn.com
>Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:33:18 -0800
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>EANA Budapest Blog
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1773.html
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>The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) brings the various
>voices from Europe together to discuss astrobiology issues and missions.
>Scientists from the 17 member nations - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
>France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain,
>Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom - recently met
>in Budapest, Hungary. This blog by Astrobiology Magazine's Leslie Mullen
>provides an overview of the workshop.
>
>Engineering Aliens
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1772.html
>
>What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow?
>What if that alien didn't come from another world but rather was created in
>a laboratory right here on Earth and functioned differently from other
>Earth life?
>
>Lichen Cosmonauts?
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1771.html
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>One of the main focuses in the search for living organisms on other planets
>and the possibilities for transfer of life between planets currently
>centres on bacteria, due to the organism's simplicity and the possibility
>of it surviving an interplanetary journey exposed to the harsh space
>environment. This focus may develop to encompass more advanced organisms
>following the results of an ESA experiment on the recent Foton-M2 mission
>where it was discovered that lichens are very adept at surviving in open
>space.
>
>Surfing Saturn's Gravity
>http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1770.html
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>By watching a distant star as it passed behind Saturn's outer rings,
>Cornell University astronomers on NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn
>have found the most direct evidence to date of patterns, called
>gravitational wakes, within the planet's outer rings.
>
>Tuesday, November 15
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