From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 1 08:35:08 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g61FZ6511142; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id LAA19641 for public-list; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:19:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from mail.spacetech.com (mail.spacetech.com [209.105.152.147]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19637 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:18:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from screamer ([192.168.1.99]) by mail.spacetech.com (Merak 4.2.1) with SMTP id HRD73753; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: <000901c22112$c5c20530$6301a8c0@screamer> Reply-To: "Gary Hoffman" From: "Gary Hoffman" To: "James Brown" , "David Woolley" , References: <200206302249.g5UMnrf00206@djwhome.demon.co.uk> <001501c2208f$68359770$6301a8c0@screamer> <008401c220c5$99a097c0$ab7ba8c0@zeke> Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:20:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Good Point !! :) Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brown" To: "Gary Hoffman" ; "David Woolley" ; Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:07 AM Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > I guess I would call a nuclear explosion a natural source Gary. After all > its not supernatural source. In fact if you consider the number of stars > and the possible number of planets around them there must be civilizations > ending themselves with a good regularity through nuclear blasts. Not much > chance of contact through... > James Brown > Jim@SETI.Net, www.SETI.Net > W6KYP, Argus Station: DM12jw > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Hoffman" > To: "David Woolley" ; > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 4:39 PM > Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > > > > Well... I would not call a nuclear explosion a natural source of energy. > > Admittedly, when you do detonate a nuclear blast, its pretty huge. > > However, as a signaling method, it lacks charm. > > > > Doppler shift of a signal always applies, given that the signal originates > > "out there" somewhere. > > > > Finally, we know that lightning produces energy far above the water > hole... > > some of which we can see as visible light. > > > > Now, it may well be that *most* of the energy is low frequency... and that > > is > > what I would like to know about. > > > > Gary, AA2IZ > > Argus FN12ir > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Woolley" > > To: > > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:49 PM > > Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > > > > > > > > > > > > Well....There is probably no natural source of radiation that is as > > strong > > > > as a lightning bolt. > > > > > > I doubt that. > > > > > > > > There are (at least) two problems: > > > > > > > > 1. Does anyone have a spectrum plot of a lightning bolt....we > need > > to > > > > see what one "looks" like, and where the energy content is greatest. > > > > > > I'd suggest looking at some of the material on nuclear explosion EMP > > > protection. From what I remember, they say that EMP is faster than > > > lightening, but still extends much less than start of the waterhole. > > > www.fas.org rings a bell. I think you are thinking of most of the > energy > > > below 10MHz. > > > > > > > 2. Does anyone know the duration of a typical bolt ? We would > need > > > > to integrate for the proper length of time, and check for doppler > shift, > > all > > > > very > > > > rapidly. > > > > > > The proportionate frequency range means that Doppler is just not an > issue. > > > > > > [ For Dr Shuch, it seems that either public should be duplicated to > > > the argus list, or there really shouldn't be an argus list, as almost > > > everyone multi/cross posts both lists. ] > > > > > From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 1 08:40:45 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g61Fej529164; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id LAA20056 for public-list; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from mail.spacetech.com (mail.spacetech.com [209.105.152.147]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20052 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from screamer ([192.168.1.99]) by mail.spacetech.com (Merak 4.2.1) with SMTP id HRD73753; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:30:00 -0400 Message-ID: <001301c22113$ebd11a80$6301a8c0@screamer> Reply-To: "Gary Hoffman" From: "Gary Hoffman" To: "David Woolley" , References: <200207010623.g616NCh00381@djwhome.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:28:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Woolley" To: Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:23 AM Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > > > > Well... I would not call a nuclear explosion a natural source of energy. > > Admittedly, when you do detonate a nuclear blast, its pretty huge. > > However, as a signaling method, it lacks charm. > > You missed the point. Protection against nuclear electromagnetic pulse > effects also provides protection against lightning, but the two effects > are not quite the same (EMP is much faster). As a result the public > literature on protecting from nuclear EMP also tends to provide information > on the nature of lightning EMP. > Ok....I certainly accept the above point. On the other hand... if the spectrum is quite different due to the differing nature of the two events, then I would think we would turn our focus away from Nuclear, and towards lightning as far as the data are concerned. > > Doppler shift of a signal always applies, given that the signal originates > > "out there" somewhere. > > But it is not worth worrying about when the signal bandwidth is much greater > than any conceivable Doppler shift, and the uncertainties in the duration of > each pulse in the sequence is uncertain. > I accept that a wide band signal makes it hard to measure the doppler shift. My point was that it is indeed hard to measure the doppler shift... which was why I pointed out the desireability of finding a way to measure it. To say that this may not be simple understates the problem. Still, given that there will be peaks in the spectrum, it should be possible. > > Finally, we know that lightning produces energy far above the water hole... > > some of which we can see as visible light. > > See my first reply. The optical pulse is produced by thermal, and possibly > ionisation effects, not by the EMP mechanism. It almost certainly has a > hot body spectrum and therefore power drops off rapidly in the microwave > region. > Perhaps it does. We need the correct spectral data. But...if it produces visible light...by whatever mechanism... then it has energy far above the microwave region... by deffinition. Gary AA2IZ Argus FN12ir From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 1 12:48:14 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g61JmD525838; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA02106 for public-list; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lea.hamradio.si (lea.hamradio.si [193.2.132.72]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02095 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:38:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from linux (mc@s57uuu.ampr.org [44.150.1.137]) by lea.hamradio.si (8.9.3/8.9.3/18.10.1999) with SMTP id VAA31957 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:37:28 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lea.hamradio.si: Host mc@s57uuu.ampr.org [44.150.1.137] claimed to be linux Message-ID: <3D20B1A5.15FD4127@hamradio.si> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:46:45 +0000 From: Marko Cebokli X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: public@setileague.org Subject: Re: SETI public: New Detection strategy References: <200207010623.g616NCh00381@djwhome.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Hello! Besides the ionosphere (what about the interstellar medium?) problem I think there are some other difficulties with alien ligthning detection: Lightning is not THAT powerful after all, especially in terms of ERP, since it radiates quasi isotropicaly. If a lightning bolt produces 1GW of RF (which I doubt), you could 'outshout' it more than ten times with a microwave oven connected to the Arecibo dish. A planet-wide chorus of bolts that could provide TW or higher power will smear out the signature and make it harder to separate from other natural noise. Because it is a noise-type natural signal, it will be much harder to distinguish from other natural signals than a narrowband beacon anyway. This is not to say that one should not even THINK in this direction, just that it will be difficult. There could be planets out there with 'super lightning', churning out millions of times more power than earthly thunderstorms (but do you think anybody would like to LIVE there? :-) Marko Cebokli From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 1 17:18:31 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g620IU527372; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id UAA14782 for public-list; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:08:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from imo-r10.mx.aol.com (imo-r10.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.106]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14778 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:08:50 -0400 (EDT) From: MarcusJohn@aol.com Received: from MarcusJohn@aol.com by imo-r10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.21.) id j.fc.1a2c04be (30960); Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:08:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:08:12 EDT Subject: Re: SETI public: Lightening detection: To: david@djwhome.demon.co.uk, public@setileague.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_fc.1a2c04be.2a5248ec_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk --part1_fc.1a2c04be.2a5248ec_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These airborne receivers are totally self contained, not involving any equipment outside the airplane. They get range and bearing from the electromagnetic signal alone, along with a direction finding receiver. There is no ground based equipment involved. John. In a message dated 07/01/2002 2:51:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, david@djwhome.demon.co.uk writes: > > Getting range as well as bearing requires timing the sound to > electromagnetic > delay, or active radar of the ionization column, if done from a single > point. > > It seems much more likely that any small device is really just a data > receiver, > receiving data obtained by measuring differential arrival times at a number > of ground stations. > --part1_fc.1a2c04be.2a5248ec_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These airborne receivers are totally self contained, not involving any equipment outside the airplane. They get range and bearing from the electromagnetic signal alone, along with a direction finding receiver. There is no ground based equipment involved.

John.



In a message dated 07/01/2002 2:51:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, david@djwhome.demon.co.uk writes:



Getting range as well as bearing requires timing the sound to electromagnetic
delay, or active radar of the ionization column, if done from a single point.

It seems much more likely that any small device is really just a data receiver,
receiving data obtained by measuring differential arrival times at a number
of ground stations.


 --part1_fc.1a2c04be.2a5248ec_boundary-- From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 1 18:31:33 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g621VW511571; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id UAA15303 for public-list; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:18:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from imo-r05.mx.aol.com (imo-r05.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.101]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15298 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:18:50 -0400 (EDT) From: MarcusJohn@aol.com Received: from MarcusJohn@aol.com by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.21.) id s.18d.a0990d3 (30960); Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:17:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <18d.a0990d3.2a524b25@aol.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:17:41 EDT Subject: Re: SETI public: New Detection strategy To: s57uuu@hamradio.si, public@setileague.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_18d.a0990d3.2a524b25_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk --part1_18d.a0990d3.2a524b25_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lightening has a very characteristic EM signature. A bolt actually consists of about 100 flashes. This creates a modulation to the signal that is hard to miss. It sounds noisy on the Ham Radio, but in the time domain it quite reproducible. Something about this signature is what gives the airborne "Strike Finder" its range signal, and the direction finding equipment is what gives it the bearing info (or azumuth, I guess, for the astronomers out there). > > > Because it is a noise-type natural signal, it will be much harder to > distinguish from other natural signals than a narrowband beacon anyway. > > --part1_18d.a0990d3.2a524b25_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lightening has a very characteristic EM signature. A bolt actually consists of about 100 flashes. This creates a modulation to the signal that is hard to miss. It sounds noisy on the Ham Radio, but in the time domain it quite reproducible. Something about this signature is what gives the airborne "Strike Finder" its range signal, and the direction finding equipment is what gives it the bearing info (or azumuth, I guess, for the astronomers out there).



Because it is a noise-type natural signal, it will be much harder to
distinguish from other natural signals than a narrowband beacon anyway.



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------=_NextPart_001_0001_01C22206.0DEC3FD0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Jul 2 17:51:05 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g630p4518037; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id UAA24055 for public-list; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:42:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe134.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.127]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24051; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:42:19 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.104] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" , "volcor" Subject: SETI public: Let's do a SETI version of this... Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:42:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000A_01C22208.F25EFF70" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jul 2002 00:42:19.0264 (UTC) FILETIME=[7C81B000:01C2222A] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C22208.F25EFF70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:34 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: 2002 Comet Awards Announced http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0217.html Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Press Release No.: 02-17 For Release: July 1, 2002 2002 COMET AWARDS ANNOUNCED Cambridge, MA -- Want some quick money in these days of WorldCom and Enron? Go and find a comet! An annual award of several thousand dollars for discoveries of comets by amateur astronomers has just been announced for the fourth consecutive year. 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Yeung's discovery image was obtained on 2002 January 21, but he reported the object initially as stellar in appearance and it was given a minor-planet (rather than cometary) designation; CCD images taken by Timothy Spahr at the SAO station on Mount Hopkins in Arizona in early May showed that P/2002 BV was indeed cometary with a faint tail, and Yeung's object was announced as a comet on May 9 (IAU Circular 7896). The brightest comet of the bunch, C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) , became a faint naked-eye object this past March and April for northern-hemisphere observers, and is of special interest because it is the first return of this comet to the inner solar system in 341 years, since it was last observed in 1661. Carefully made observations in February and March 1661 by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius have allowed astronomers to confirm that the two apparitions belong to the same comet, though for centuries it was speculated erroneously that the 1661 comet might be identical with a comet seen in 1532. Comet C/2002 C1 is now the comet with the longest orbital period that has been definitely seen at two or more returns to perihelion (closest approach to the sun). The famous Halley's comet orbits the sun roughly once every 76 years. In 2001, there were only two recipients of the Award, for their independent visual discoveries of a single comet (Albert Jones of New Zealand and Syogo Utsunomiya). Of the 20 Award recipients in the first four years, twelve have been for visual discoveries, seven for discoveries from CCD images, and one for a discovery from a photograph. The countries with the most recipients so far are the United States (5), Japan (4), and Australia (4). In years when there are no eligible comet discoverers, the Award is made instead to amateur astronomers judged by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) to have made important contributions toward observing comets or promoting an interest in the study of comets. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists organized into seven research divisions study the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe. For more information: http://cfa -www.harvard.edu/iau/special/EdgarWilson.html http://cfa-www.harva rd.edu/iau/Headlines.html http://cfa-www.ha rvard.edu/iauc/06900/06936.ht ml David A. Aguilar Director of Public Affairs Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 617-495-7462 daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu Christine Lafon Public Affairs Specialist Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phone: 617-495-7463, Fax: 617-495-7016 clafon@cfa.harvard.edu ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C22208.F25EFF70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
<= DIV> 
=
----- Original Message -----
From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:34 PM
T= o: undisclosed-recipients:;
= Subject: 2002 Comet Awards Announced
 
http://cf= a-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0217.html

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for= Astrophysics
Press Release No.: 02-17
For Release: July 1, 2002
           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp; 2002 COMET AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Cambridge, MA -- Want some quick m= oney in these days of WorldCom and
Enron? Go and find a comet! An annu= al award of several thousand dollars
for discoveries of comets by amat= eur astronomers has just been announced
for the fourth consecutive yea= r.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts,=
has announced the recipients of the 2002 Edgar Wilson Award for thediscovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June 10= .
The award was set aside as part of the will bequeathed by the latebusinessman Edgar Wilson of Lexington, Kentucky, and administered by th= e
SAO. The following seven discoverers will receive plaques and a cash=
award:

    * Vance Avery Petriew of Regina, Sas= katchewan, Canada, for his visual
      disco= very of comet P/2001 Q2 on 2001 August 18.
    * Kaoru = Ikeya of Mori, Shuchi, Shizuoka, Japan, and Daqing Zhang,
  =     Kaifeng, Henan province, China, for their independent = visual
      discoveries of comet C/2002 C1 o= n 2002 February 1.
    * Douglas Snyder of Palominas, A= rizona, and Shigeki Murakami of
      Matsuno= yama, Niigata, Japan, for their independent visual discoveries
 &= nbsp;    of comet C/2002 E2 on 2002 March 11.
 &nb= sp;  * Syogo Utsunomiya of Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan, for h= is
      visual discovery of comet C/2002 F1 = on 2002 March 18.
    * William Kwong Yu Yeung of Benso= n, Arizona for his
      charge-coupled-devic= e (CCD) electronic-camera discovery of comet
    &= nbsp; P/2002 BV.

Observers Ikeya and Utsunomiya have had their nam= es attached to comets
previously. Comet C/2002 F1 was Utsunomiya's thi= rd named comet; he also
won the Edgar Wilson Award in 2001 for C/2000 = W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones). Ikeya
became world-famous in the 1960s for a st= ring of five comet discoveries
between 1963 and 1967, with comet C/196= 5 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) becoming likely
the brightest comet of the last cent= ury -- visible in broad daylight to
the unaided eye as it skimmed clos= ely by the sun's surface in October
1965.

At the beginning of t= he 17th century, Johannes Kepler thought there were
more comets in the= skies than there were fish in the seas. Many other
people then still = clung to the view of malevolent visitors bent on
mischief prowling thr= ough the earth's atmosphere, whereby comets were seen
as harbingers of= doom, creators of earthquakes, disasters, famine, defeat
in battles a= nd deaths of kings. Going back to ancient times, the sudden
appearance= of comets, their enormous size, and their just-as-sudden
departures r= aised superstitious fears wherever they were observed.

Hundreds of= comets were observed and recorded before the invention of the
telesco= pe in 1609, and the number of discoveries soared when
better-quality t= elescopes came into use in the 18th century. Armed with
small instrume= nts that pale in comparison to ones available to amateur
astronomers t= oday, the race to discover new comets and gain recognition
and fame be= gan.

Nicknamed the "Ferret of Comets" by the King of France in the= 1760s,
Charles Messier became one of the most famous comet hunters of= all time.
He just missed the recovery of Halley's comet in December 1= 758 at its
first predicted return, but for the next fifteen years, nea= rly all comet
discoveries were made by Messier. It was rumored that he= may have been
even more upset over the discovery of a comet by a riva= l while he was
attending his dying wife than he was over her death.
Nearly two hundred years have passed since the comet discoveries of<= BR>Messier. Today amateur astronomers continue to discover new comets tha= t
may bear their names for eternity. Fighting increasing light polluti= on and
competition from sophisticated professional observatories, the = challenges
and rewards have become even greater. There have been numer= ous comet
awards over the centuries, but the Wilson Award is currently= the largest
publicly known award.

The six visual discoveries o= f this past year involved four different
comets and represent the most= new comets discovered by visual observers
since 1994. Automated CCD s= earches with large professional telescopes have
dominated comet discov= ery since 1998. Utsunomiya's discovery was made with
large 25x150 bino= culars (having lenses with diameters of 6 inches). The
other discoveri= es were all made with moderate-sized reflecting telescopes
having mirr= ors with diameters ranging from 10 to 20 inches.

Yeung's discovery= image was obtained on 2002 January 21, but he reported
the object ini= tially as stellar in appearance and it was given a
minor-planet (rathe= r than cometary) designation; CCD images taken by
Timothy Spahr at the= SAO station on Mount Hopkins in Arizona in early May
showed that P/20= 02 BV was indeed cometary with a faint tail, and Yeung's
object was an= nounced as a comet on May 9 (IAU Circular 7896).

The brightest com= et of the bunch, C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) , became a faint
naked-eye ob= ject this past March and April for northern-hemisphere
observers, and = is of special interest because it is the first return of
this comet to= the inner solar system in 341 years, since it was last
observed in 16= 61. Carefully made observations in February and March 1661
by the Poli= sh astronomer Johannes Hevelius have allowed astronomers to
confirm th= at the two apparitions belong to the same comet, though for
centuries = it was speculated erroneously that the 1661 comet might be
identical w= ith a comet seen in 1532. Comet C/2002 C1 is now the comet with
the lo= ngest orbital period that has been definitely seen at two or more
retu= rns to perihelion (closest approach to the sun). The famous Halley's
c= omet orbits the sun roughly once every 76 years.

In 2001, there we= re only two recipients of the Award, for their
independent visual disc= overies of a single comet (Albert Jones of New
Zealand and Syogo Utsun= omiya). Of the 20 Award recipients in the first
four years, twelve hav= e been for visual discoveries, seven for discoveries
from CCD images, = and one for a discovery from a photograph. The countries
with the most= recipients so far are the United States (5), Japan (4), and
Australia= (4). In years when there are no eligible comet discoverers, the
Award= is made instead to amateur astronomers judged by the Central Bureau
f= or Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) to have made important contributions
= toward observing comets or promoting an interest in the study of comets.<= BR>
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard-Smithsonian= Center
for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Sm= ithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observator= y. CfA
scientists organized into seven research divisions study the or= igin,
evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.

For more in= formation:

http://cfa -www.harvard.edu/iau/special/EdgarWilson.htm= l
http://cfa-www.harva rd.edu/iau/Headlines.html
http://cfa-www.ha = rvard.edu/iauc/06900/06936.ht ml

David A. Aguilar
Director of P= ublic Affairs
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
617-495-7= 462
daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu

Christine Lafon
Public Affairs = Specialist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: 617-4= 95-7463, Fax: 617-495-7016
clafon@cfa.harvard.edu
------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C22208.F25EFF70-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Jul 2 18:01:56 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6311t500517; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id UAA24545 for public-list; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:51:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24537; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:51:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust177.tnt3.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([65.238.106.177] helo=office) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17PYMH-0000b2-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:51:04 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020702205000.006987f0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:50:00 -0400 To: "LARRY KLAES" , "setipublic" , "volcor" From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: SETI public: Re: Volcor: Let's do a SETI version of this... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk At 08:42 PM 7/2/02 -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote: > Let's do a SETI version of this... And how are we going to come up with the $ for the cash awards?? -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Jul 2 19:55:11 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g632tA502225; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id WAA00209 for public-list; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:48:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe8.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.88]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00199; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:48:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:48:05 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [209.181.133.35] From: "Lee Kitchens" To: "LARRY KLAES" , "Public" , "Volcor" Subject: SETI public: Re: Volcor: Let's do a SETI version of this... Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:48:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1900 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22201.7750F060" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jul 2002 02:48:05.0980 (UTC) FILETIME=[0EB329C0:01C2223C] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22201.7750F060 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This email was addressed to "Volcor". This is Not a "Volcor" issue. Ple= ase keep station non-technical and non-admin issues strictly to the setip= ublic email address. Thanks, Lee, hardware. =20 ----- Original Message ----- From: LARRY KLAES Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:48 PM To: setipublic; volcor Subject: Volcor: Let's do a SETI version of this... =20 =20 =20 ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:34 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: 2002 Comet Awards Announced =20 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0217.html Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Press Release No.: 02-17 For Release: July 1, 2002 2002 COMET AWARDS ANNOUNCED Cambridge, MA -- Want some quick money in these days of WorldCom and Enron? Go and find a comet! An annual award of several thousand dollars for discoveries of comets by amateur astronomers has just been announced for the fourth consecutive year. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced the recipients of the 2002 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June 10. The award was set aside as part of the will bequeathed by the late businessman Edgar Wilson of Lexington, Kentucky, and administered by the SAO. The following seven discoverers will receive plaques and a cash award: * Vance Avery Petriew of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, for his visual discovery of comet P/2001 Q2 on 2001 August 18. * Kaoru Ikeya of Mori, Shuchi, Shizuoka, Japan, and Daqing Zhang, Kaifeng, Henan province, China, for their independent visual discoveries of comet C/2002 C1 on 2002 February 1. * Douglas Snyder of Palominas, Arizona, and Shigeki Murakami of Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan, for their independent visual discoveri= es of comet C/2002 E2 on 2002 March 11. * Syogo Utsunomiya of Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan, for his visual discovery of comet C/2002 F1 on 2002 March 18. * William Kwong Yu Yeung of Benson, Arizona for his charge-coupled-device (CCD) electronic-camera discovery of comet P/2002 BV. Observers Ikeya and Utsunomiya have had their names attached to comets previously. Comet C/2002 F1 was Utsunomiya's third named comet; he also won the Edgar Wilson Award in 2001 for C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones). Ikey= a became world-famous in the 1960s for a string of five comet discoveries between 1963 and 1967, with comet C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) becoming likely the brightest comet of the last century -- visible in broad daylight to the unaided eye as it skimmed closely by the sun's surface in October 1965. At the beginning of the 17th century, Johannes Kepler thought there were more comets in the skies than there were fish in the seas. Many other people then still clung to the view of malevolent visitors bent on mischief prowling through the earth's atmosphere, whereby comets were see= n as harbingers of doom, creators of earthquakes, disasters, famine, defeat in battles and deaths of kings. Going back to ancient times, the sudden appearance of comets, their enormous size, and their just-as-sudden departures raised superstitious fears wherever they were observed. Hundreds of comets were observed and recorded before the invention of the telescope in 1609, and the number of discoveries soared when better-quality telescopes came into use in the 18th century. Armed with small instruments that pale in comparison to ones available to amateur astronomers today, the race to discover new comets and gain recognition and fame began. Nicknamed the "Ferret of Comets" by the King of France in the 1760s, Charles Messier became one of the most famous comet hunters of all time. He just missed the recovery of Halley's comet in December 1758 at its first predicted return, but for the next fifteen years, nearly all comet discoveries were made by Messier. It was rumored that he may have been even more upset over the discovery of a comet by a rival while he was attending his dying wife than he was over her death. Nearly two hundred years have passed since the comet discoveries of Messier. Today amateur astronomers continue to discover new comets that may bear their names for eternity. Fighting increasing light pollution an= d competition from sophisticated professional observatories, the challenges and rewards have become even greater. There have been numerous comet awards over the centuries, but the Wilson Award is currently the largest publicly known award. The six visual discoveries of this past year involved four different comets and represent the most new comets discovered by visual observers since 1994. Automated CCD searches with large professional telescopes hav= e dominated comet discovery since 1998. Utsunomiya's discovery was made wit= h large 25x150 binoculars (having lenses with diameters of 6 inches). The other discoveries were all made with moderate-sized reflecting telescopes having mirrors with diameters ranging from 10 to 20 inches. Yeung's discovery image was obtained on 2002 January 21, but he reported the object initially as stellar in appearance and it was given a minor-planet (rather than cometary) designation; CCD images taken by Timothy Spahr at the SAO station on Mount Hopkins in Arizona in early May showed that P/2002 BV was indeed cometary with a faint tail, and Yeung's object was announced as a comet on May 9 (IAU Circular 7896). The brightest comet of the bunch, C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) , became a fain= t naked-eye object this past March and April for northern-hemisphere observers, and is of special interest because it is the first return of this comet to the inner solar system in 341 years, since it was last observed in 1661. Carefully made observations in February and March 1661 by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius have allowed astronomers to confirm that the two apparitions belong to the same comet, though for centuries it was speculated erroneously that the 1661 comet might be identical with a comet seen in 1532. Comet C/2002 C1 is now the comet wit= h the longest orbital period that has been definitely seen at two or more returns to perihelion (closest approach to the sun). The famous Halley's comet orbits the sun roughly once every 76 years. In 2001, there were only two recipients of the Award, for their independent visual discoveries of a single comet (Albert Jones of New Zealand and Syogo Utsunomiya). Of the 20 Award recipients in the first four years, twelve have been for visual discoveries, seven for discoverie= s from CCD images, and one for a discovery from a photograph. The countries with the most recipients so far are the United States (5), Japan (4), and Australia (4). In years when there are no eligible comet discoverers, the Award is made instead to amateur astronomers judged by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) to have made important contributions toward observing comets or promoting an interest in the study of comets. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists organized into seven research divisions study the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe. For more information: http://cfa -www.harvard.edu/iau/special/EdgarWilson.html http://cfa-www.harva rd.edu/iau/Headlines.html http://cfa-www.ha rvard.edu/iauc/06900/06936.ht ml David A. Aguilar Director of Public Affairs Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 617-495-7462 daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu Christine Lafon Public Affairs Specialist Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phone: 617-495-7463, Fax: 617-495-7016 clafon@cfa.harvard.edu ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22201.7750F060 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 =
----- Original Message -----
From: LARRY KL= AES
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, = 2002 5:48 PM
To: setipublic;= volcor
Subject: Volcor: Let= 's do a SETI version of this...
 
 
=
 
----- Original Message ----- From:<= /B> baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:34 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
<= B>Subject: 2002 Comet Awards Announced
 
http://= cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0217.html

Harvard-Smithsonian Center f= or Astrophysics
Press Release No.: 02-17
For Release: July 1, 2002<= BR>
           =             &= nbsp; 2002 COMET AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Cambridge, MA -- Want some quick= money in these days of WorldCom and
Enron? Go and find a comet! An an= nual award of several thousand dollars
for discoveries of comets by am= ateur astronomers has just been announced
for the fourth consecutive y= ear.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of the<= BR>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusett= s,
has announced the recipients of the 2002 Edgar Wilson Award for the=
discovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June = 10.
The award was set aside as part of the will bequeathed by the late=
businessman Edgar Wilson of Lexington, Kentucky, and administered by = the
SAO. The following seven discoverers will receive plaques and a ca= sh
award:

    * Vance Avery Petriew of Regina, S= askatchewan, Canada, for his visual
      dis= covery of comet P/2001 Q2 on 2001 August 18.
    * Kaor= u Ikeya of Mori, Shuchi, Shizuoka, Japan, and Daqing Zhang,
 &nbs= p;    Kaifeng, Henan province, China, for their independen= t visual
      discoveries of comet C/2002 C1= on 2002 February 1.
    * Douglas Snyder of Palominas,= Arizona, and Shigeki Murakami of
      Matsu= noyama, Niigata, Japan, for their independent visual discoveries
 = ;     of comet C/2002 E2 on 2002 March 11.
 &= nbsp;  * Syogo Utsunomiya of Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan, for= his
      visual discovery of comet C/2002 F= 1 on 2002 March 18.
    * William Kwong Yu Yeung of Ben= son, Arizona for his
      charge-coupled-dev= ice (CCD) electronic-camera discovery of comet
    = ;  P/2002 BV.

Observers Ikeya and Utsunomiya have had their n= ames attached to comets
previously. Comet C/2002 F1 was Utsunomiya's t= hird named comet; he also
won the Edgar Wilson Award in 2001 for C/200= 0 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones). Ikeya
became world-famous in the 1960s for a = string of five comet discoveries
between 1963 and 1967, with comet C/1= 965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) becoming likely
the brightest comet of the last ce= ntury -- visible in broad daylight to
the unaided eye as it skimmed cl= osely by the sun's surface in October
1965.

At the beginning of= the 17th century, Johannes Kepler thought there were
more comets in t= he skies than there were fish in the seas. Many other
people then stil= l clung to the view of malevolent visitors bent on
mischief prowling t= hrough the earth's atmosphere, whereby comets were seen
as harbingers = of doom, creators of earthquakes, disasters, famine, defeat
in battles= and deaths of kings. Going back to ancient times, the sudden
appearan= ce of comets, their enormous size, and their just-as-sudden
departures= raised superstitious fears wherever they were observed.

Hundreds = of comets were observed and recorded before the invention of the
teles= cope in 1609, and the number of discoveries soared when
better-quality= telescopes came into use in the 18th century. Armed with
small instru= ments that pale in comparison to ones available to amateur
astronomers= today, the race to discover new comets and gain recognition
and fame = began.

Nicknamed the "Ferret of Comets" by the King of France in t= he 1760s,
Charles Messier became one of the most famous comet hunters = of all time.
He just missed the recovery of Halley's comet in December= 1758 at its
first predicted return, but for the next fifteen years, n= early all comet
discoveries were made by Messier. It was rumored that = he may have been
even more upset over the discovery of a comet by a ri= val while he was
attending his dying wife than he was over her death.<= BR>
Nearly two hundred years have passed since the comet discoveries o= f
Messier. Today amateur astronomers continue to discover new comets t= hat
may bear their names for eternity. Fighting increasing light pollu= tion and
competition from sophisticated professional observatories, th= e challenges
and rewards have become even greater. There have been num= erous comet
awards over the centuries, but the Wilson Award is current= ly the largest
publicly known award.

The six visual discoveries= of this past year involved four different
comets and represent the mo= st new comets discovered by visual observers
since 1994. Automated CCD= searches with large professional telescopes have
dominated comet disc= overy since 1998. Utsunomiya's discovery was made with
large 25x150 bi= noculars (having lenses with diameters of 6 inches). The
other discove= ries were all made with moderate-sized reflecting telescopes
having mi= rrors with diameters ranging from 10 to 20 inches.

Yeung's discove= ry image was obtained on 2002 January 21, but he reported
the object i= nitially as stellar in appearance and it was given a
minor-planet (rat= her than cometary) designation; CCD images taken by
Timothy Spahr at t= he SAO station on Mount Hopkins in Arizona in early May
showed that P/= 2002 BV was indeed cometary with a faint tail, and Yeung's
object was = announced as a comet on May 9 (IAU Circular 7896).

The brightest c= omet of the bunch, C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) , became a faint
naked-eye = object this past March and April for northern-hemisphere
observers, an= d is of special interest because it is the first return of
this comet = to the inner solar system in 341 years, since it was last
observed in = 1661. Carefully made observations in February and March 1661
by the Po= lish astronomer Johannes Hevelius have allowed astronomers to
confirm = that the two apparitions belong to the same comet, though for
centurie= s it was speculated erroneously that the 1661 comet might be
identical= with a comet seen in 1532. Comet C/2002 C1 is now the comet with
the = longest orbital period that has been definitely seen at two or more
re= turns to perihelion (closest approach to the sun). The famous Halley'scomet orbits the sun roughly once every 76 years.

In 2001, there = were only two recipients of the Award, for their
independent visual di= scoveries of a single comet (Albert Jones of New
Zealand and Syogo Uts= unomiya). Of the 20 Award recipients in the first
four years, twelve h= ave been for visual discoveries, seven for discoveries
from CCD images= , and one for a discovery from a photograph. The countries
with the mo= st recipients so far are the United States (5), Japan (4), and
Austral= ia (4). In years when there are no eligible comet discoverers, the
Awa= rd is made instead to amateur astronomers judged by the Central Bureaufor Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) to have made important contributionstoward observing comets or promoting an interest in the study of comets= .

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard-Smithsoni= an Center
for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the = Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observat= ory. CfA
scientists organized into seven research divisions study the = origin,
evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.

For more = information:

http://cfa -www.harvard.edu/iau/special/EdgarWilson.h= tml
http://cfa-www.harva rd.edu/iau/Headlines.html
http://cfa-www.h= a rvard.edu/iauc/06900/06936.ht ml

David A. Aguilar
Director of= Public Affairs
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
617-495= -7462
daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu

Christine Lafon
Public Affair= s Specialist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: 617= -495-7463, Fax: 617-495-7016
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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22201.7750F060-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Jul 2 21:10:16 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g634AF520885; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id XAA03609 for public-list; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:59:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe83.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.225]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03598; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:59:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:59:05 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.126] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "volcor" Subject: SETI public: Re: Let's do a SETI version of this... Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:59:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22224.7010A020" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jul 2002 03:59:05.0359 (UTC) FILETIME=[F97CD1F0:01C22245] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22224.7010A020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" How about one of those millionaire businessmen who gave millions to The SETI Institute for their next generation project? We could name the SETI League amateur SETI project after them as an incentive and get them lots of publicity. It can also be rightly touted as an educational project. Instead of just hoping that amateur astronomers will do their own SETI thing, we can give them financial rewards and/or other incentives (such as equipment) to participate. In this era, I don't see how else we can do it, and I don't think the number of member observatories has risen in a while. How else can we have even a chance of detection without enough active observatories? I know SETI League funds are tight, which is why I suggest the outside financial help. Surely some rich technologist out there would like to help foster the interest (and purchase) of those who would buy his merchandise while contributing to science. Lee, I am including this in Volcor because the coordinators could help promote this project. I would also like to say I have seen very little activity on the Volcor list as of late anyway. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. H. Paul Shuch Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:59 PM To: LARRY KLAES; setipublic; volcor Subject: SETI public: Re: Volcor: Let's do a SETI version of this... At 08:42 PM 7/2/02 -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote: > Let's do a SETI version of this... And how are we going to come up with the $ for the cash awards?? -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22224.7010A020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
How about one = of those millionaire businessmen who gave
millions to The SETI= Institute for their next generation project?
 
We could name the SETI League amateur SETI project after
th= em as an incentive and get them lots of publicity.  It can
also be rightly touted as an educational project.
 
Instead of just hoping that amateur astronomers will do
their own SETI thing, we can give them financial rewards
and= /or other incentives (such as equipment) to participate.
In th= is era, I don't see how else we can do it, and I don't
think t= he number of member observatories has risen in a
while.  = How else can we have even a chance of detection
without enough= active observatories?
 
I know SETI League fu= nds are tight, which is why I suggest
the outside financial he= lp.  Surely some rich technologist out
there would like = to help foster the interest (and purchase)
of those who would = buy his merchandise while contributing
to science.
=  
Lee, I am including this in Volcor because the coordina= tors
could help promote this project.  I would also like = to say I
have seen very little activity on the Volcor list as = of late
anyway.
 
Larry
=  
 
----- Original Message ---= --
From: Dr. H. Paul Shuch
<= B>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:59 PM
To: LARRY KLAES; setipublic; volcor
Subject: SETI public: Re: Volcor: Let's do a SETI = version of this...
 
At 08:42 PM 7/2/02 -0400, LARRY= KLAES wrote:
> Let's do a SETI version of this...

And how a= re we going to come up with the $ for the cash awards??
--------------= ------------------
H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS    =
Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc.
433 Liberty Street, PO B= ox 555
Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA
voice (201) 641-1770;  fax (2= 01) 641-1771
n6tx@setileague.org   www.setileague.org
Pro= ject Argus station FN11LH

"We Know We're Not Alone!"
------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C22224.7010A020-- From owner-public@setileague.org Wed Jul 3 09:22:33 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g63GMW531490; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA08189 for public-list; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:11:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe64.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.206]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08185 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:10:53 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.251] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "James Brown" , "Gary Hoffman" , "David Woolley" , "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Nukes for ASETI - Re: New Detection strategy Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:10:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0011_01C2228A.AA8CF170" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jul 2002 16:10:53.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[34EA3A00:01C222AC] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C2228A.AA8CF170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Check the article "Detectability of Extraterrestrial Activities" by =20 Guillermo Lemarchand (1992) under the section on X-ray Radiation. http://www.coseti.org/lemarch1.htm If we exploded in space all the nuclear bombs we had in 1989, the x-ray pulse could be detected by our current technology for a distance of about 190 light years. The famous Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, wrote a description in 1971 of using a thermonuclear explosion in space to get the attention of ETI. You can read it here: http://lnfm1.sai.msu.su/SETI/eng/articles/sakharov.html Between this and Project Orion, I find these much better uses for nuclear bombs than aiming them at each other. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: James Brown Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:20 AM To: Gary Hoffman; David Woolley; public@setileague.org Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy I guess I would call a nuclear explosion a natural source Gary. After al= l its not supernatural source. In fact if you consider the number of stars and the possible number of planets around them there must be civilization= s ending themselves with a good regularity through nuclear blasts. Not muc= h chance of contact through... James Brown Jim@SETI.Net, www.SETI.Net W6KYP, Argus Station: DM12jw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Hoffman" To: "David Woolley" ; Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > Well... I would not call a nuclear explosion a natural source of energy= . > Admittedly, when you do detonate a nuclear blast, its pretty huge. > However, as a signaling method, it lacks charm. > > Doppler shift of a signal always applies, given that the signal origina= tes > "out there" somewhere. > > Finally, we know that lightning produces energy far above the water hole... > some of which we can see as visible light. > > Now, it may well be that *most* of the energy is low frequency... and t= hat > is > what I would like to know about. > > Gary, AA2IZ > Argus FN12ir > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Woolley" > To: > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:49 PM > Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy > > > > > > > > Well....There is probably no natural source of radiation that is as > strong > > > as a lightning bolt. > > > > I doubt that. > > > > > > There are (at least) two problems: > > > > > > 1. Does anyone have a spectrum plot of a lightning bolt....we need > to > > > see what one "looks" like, and where the energy content is greatest= . > > > > I'd suggest looking at some of the material on nuclear explosion EMP > > protection. From what I remember, they say that EMP is faster than > > lightening, but still extends much less than start of the waterhole. > > www.fas.org rings a bell. I think you are thinking of most of the energy > > below 10MHz. > > > > > 2. Does anyone know the duration of a typical bolt ? We would need > > > to integrate for the proper length of time, and check for doppler shift, > all > > > very > > > rapidly. > > > > The proportionate frequency range means that Doppler is just not an issue. > > > > [ For Dr Shuch, it seems that either public should be duplicated to > > the argus list, or there really shouldn't be an argus list, as almost > > everyone multi/cross posts both lists. ] > > ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C2228A.AA8CF170 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Check the arti= cle "Detectability of Extraterrestrial Activities" by
Guiller= mo Lemarchand (1992) under the section on X-ray Radiation.
&nb= sp;
 
If w= e exploded in space all the nuclear bombs we had in 1989,
the = x-ray pulse could be detected by our current technology
for a = distance of about 190 light years.
 
The famou= s Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet
hydro= gen bomb, wrote a description in 1971 of using a thermonuclear
explosion in space to get the attention of ETI.  You can read it he= re:
 
 
Between this and Project Orio= n, I find these much better uses
for nuclear bombs than aiming= them at each other.
 
Larry
 =
 
----- Original Message -----
From: James Brown<= /DIV>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 = 2:20 AM
To: Gary Hoffman; Da= vid Woolley; public@setileague.org
= Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy
=
 
I guess I would call a nuclear explosion a natural sourc= e Gary.  After all
its not supernatural source.  In fact if = you consider the number of stars
and the possible number of planets ar= ound them there must be civilizations
ending themselves with a good re= gularity through nuclear blasts.  Not much
chance of contact thro= ugh...
James Brown
Jim@SETI.Net, www.SETI.Net
W6KYP, Argus Stati= on: DM12jw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Hoffman" &l= t;ghoffman@spacetech.com>
To: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.dem= on.co.uk>; <public@setileague.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 200= 2 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy<= BR>

> Well... I would not call a nuclear explosion a natural so= urce of energy.
> Admittedly, when you do detonate a nuclear blast,= its pretty huge.
> However, as a signaling method, it lacks charm.=
>
> Doppler shift of a signal always applies, given that the= signal originates
> "out there" somewhere.
>
> Finally= , we know that lightning produces energy far above the water
hole...> some of which we can see as visible light.
>
> Now, it= may well be that *most* of the energy is low frequency... and that
&g= t; is
> what I would like to know about.
>
> Gary, AA2I= Z
> Argus FN12ir
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:= "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
> To: <public= @setileague.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:49 PM
> S= ubject: Re: SETI public: Re: Argus: New Detection strategy
>
>= ;
> > >
> > > Well....There is probably no natura= l source of radiation that is as
> strong
> > > as a li= ghtning bolt.
> >
> > I doubt that.
> > >> > > There are (at least) two problems:
> > >
= > > >     1.  Does anyone have a spectr= um plot of a lightning bolt....we
need
> to
> > > se= e what one "looks" like, and where the energy content is greatest.
>= ; >
> > I'd suggest looking at some of the material on nuclea= r explosion EMP
> > protection.  From what I remember, they= say that EMP is faster than
> > lightening, but still extends m= uch less than start of the waterhole.
> > www.fas.org rings a be= ll.  I think you are thinking of most of the
energy
> > = below 10MHz.
> >
> > >     2.&nb= sp; Does anyone know the duration of a typical bolt ?  We would
n= eed
> > > to integrate for the proper length of time, and che= ck for doppler
shift,
> all
> > > very
> > = > rapidly.
> >
> > The proportionate frequency range= means that Doppler is just not an
issue.
> >
> > [ = For Dr Shuch, it seems that either public should be duplicated to
>= > the argus list, or there really shouldn't be an argus list, as almo= st
> > everyone multi/cross posts both lists. ]
>
><= BR>
------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C2228A.AA8CF170-- From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Jul 4 08:01:16 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g64F1F527772; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA11999 for public-list; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:52:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from plounts.uits.indiana.edu (plounts.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.73]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11894; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lear.ucs.indiana.edu (lear.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.5.208]) by plounts.uits.indiana.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id g64Eo11I027865; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:50:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (foxd@localhost) by lear.ucs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.2lear-imap3) with SMTP id JAA14788; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:49:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:49:54 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Boyd Fox X-Sender: foxd@lear.ucs.indiana.edu To: public@setileague.org cc: argus@setileague.org, volcor@setileague.org, volcor@setileage.org Subject: SETI public: KLEZ worm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Someone on earthlink.net is infected with the KLEZ worm. If anyone here is on earthlink please check your system. This is the variant that sends out emails with attachments that claim to make your system immune to KLEZ but actually infect your system with it. My email address is becoming close to unusable due to spam the worm has accidently signed me up for in the past and I would like to head this one off quickly. 73, Daniel Fox KF9ET From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Jul 4 10:40:23 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g64HeN519720; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id NAA19550 for public-list; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:28:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from isupportisp.com (jupiter.isisp.org [65.196.200.24]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19540 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:28:35 -0400 (EDT) From: milcom@SoftHome.net Received: from 66-81-117-101-modem.o1.com (milcom@66-81-117-101-modem.o1.com [66.81.117.101]) (authenticated) by isupportisp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g64HSKj19933; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:28:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:26:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: milcom@gtgs.ampr.org To: Daniel Boyd Fox cc: SETI Public Subject: Re: SETI public: KLEZ worm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Probably shouldn't be doing this publically, but thought there might be others that might benefit... Since all the KLEZ* seems to be using the same basic ext- ensions for the attachments (so far), what I've found works best is to create a 'filter' (I use procmail to toss my mail locally here (under Linux of course:)) and have added (with a little help from some nice folk on 'procmail' list) a segment to the script that looks for those attached ext's and if they don't match the mime-type statment in the header, they get tossed into oblivion! 73 - Bruce PS: Anyone know of any Surplus Az-El Drives that are avail at a reasonable cost that can handle a 200lb 10' dish ? I'm thinking along the lines of the DTC-IV, but can't afford anything that new, (well)used/surplus is target. Parabola is Surplus ~700 MHz Spotting Radar reflector. On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Daniel Boyd Fox wrote: > Someone on earthlink.net is infected with the KLEZ worm. -- Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges... [OS/2 Warp Kicks Window-Butt!] -= Always Has - Always Will =- From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Jul 4 10:42:26 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g64HgP512882; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id NAA19661 for public-list; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:30:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19570; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust30.tnt1.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([67.202.252.158] helo=office) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17QAPM-0006tr-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:28:45 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020704132731.018efdd0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:27:31 -0400 To: rcf@setileague.org From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: SETI public: cross-posting problem; remedy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk SETIzens, We are experiencing a problem with people cross-posting emails to multiple SETI League email lists simultaneously. If you receive this message more than once, it indicates that you are subscribed to more than one SETI League email list, so please pay attention: With the exception of broadcast messages such as this one, it is NOT a good policy to post messages to multiple Lists. Please review the charter of our lists at , and select the one list that best suits the intent of your message. When broadcast messages are in fact required, it is important to put the list names in the BCC: field, NOT in the TO: field. If you use TO:, and recipients click "Reply All", their response may go to lists to which they are not subscribed. Then they bounce back to me as "non-member submission," and require manual intervention. This has happened six times today already, and eats into the time I have available to server your membership needs. Remember, as a rule, to post each message to the MOST APPROPRIATE list. When you can't use a single list, use BCC. Thanks. Yours for SETI success, Paul -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jul 5 07:21:23 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g65ELM503929; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA04251 for public-list; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:05:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from julesburg.uits.indiana.edu (julesburg.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.75]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04241 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:05:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lear.ucs.indiana.edu (lear.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.5.208]) by julesburg.uits.indiana.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id g65E5fft024149; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:05:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (foxd@localhost) by lear.ucs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.2lear-imap3) with SMTP id JAA03455; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:05:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Boyd Fox X-Sender: foxd@lear.ucs.indiana.edu To: milcom@SoftHome.net cc: SETI Public Subject: Re: SETI public: KLEZ worm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Aside from getting email with the worm attached, the worm will spoof the email address it is coming from to others. And in the past some of these others have been addresses you email to to get spam. There for a while I was getting a lot of "thank you for subscribing to" emails from the most amazing sites. I think whoever was infected did realize it. Thanks! 73, Daniel Fox KF9ET On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 milcom@SoftHome.net wrote: > Probably shouldn't be doing this publically, but thought > there might be others that might benefit... > > Since all the KLEZ* seems to be using the same basic ext- > ensions for the attachments (so far), what I've found works > best is to create a 'filter' (I use procmail to toss my > mail locally here (under Linux of course:)) and have added > (with a little help from some nice folk on 'procmail' list) > a segment to the script that looks for those attached ext's > and if they don't match the mime-type statment in the header, > they get tossed into oblivion! > > 73 - Bruce > > PS: Anyone know of any Surplus Az-El Drives that are avail > at a reasonable cost that can handle a 200lb 10' dish ? > I'm thinking along the lines of the DTC-IV, but can't > afford anything that new, (well)used/surplus is target. > Parabola is Surplus ~700 MHz Spotting Radar reflector. > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Daniel Boyd Fox wrote: > > > Someone on earthlink.net is infected with the KLEZ worm. > > -- > Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges... > > [OS/2 Warp Kicks Window-Butt!] > -= Always Has - Always Will =- > > > > From owner-public@setileague.org Mon Jul 8 10:00:19 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g68H0I515248; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA04502 for public-list; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:47:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe7.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.87]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04491 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:47:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:47:08 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.3] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Fw: New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:46:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C2267D.82367650" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2002 16:47:08.0941 (UTC) FILETIME=[198223D0:01C2269F] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C2267D.82367650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:30 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/features/spain_dsn.html New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 8, 2002 Construction workers erecting steel components atop a new concrete chambe= r near Madrid, Spain, this summer are helping NASA study Mars and comets. They are building a big antenna for the Deep Space Network, which provide= s radio communications for spacecraft exploring the solar system. The netwo= rk operates clusters of skyward-facing dish antennas at sites in California, Spain and Australia. The antennas catch radioed information from spacecra= ft as near as Earth orbit and as far as more than twice the distance to Plut= o. They also send commands to the spacecraft. JPL administers the network fo= r NASA. The Spanish construction job has an important deadline. NASA needs this new antenna operating by the time an unprecedented peak i= n demand for deep-space communications hits in November 2003, said Jeffrey Osman, Deep Space Network antenna and microwave manager at JPL. During th= e following three months, three rovers and two orbiters from the United States, Europe and Japan will arrive at Mars, two other spacecraft will encounter comets, and a third comet mission will launch. That's on top of the continuing communication needs of many other missions. The new antenna will span 34 meters (112 feet) in diameter and will use a= n advanced design called "beam waveguide," which steers the gathered radio signals to a protected, underground electronics room. The design gives mo= re reliable operation than the older antenna design with processing gear up = in the dish. "Construction is on schedule," Osman said. "The concrete pedestal is in place. The steel is going up. The main reflector portion of the dish will= be lifted as a single piece later this year." The pedestal encloses the electronics room and will support more than 500 tons of antenna structure. Custom-made steel pieces for the antenna's giant dish and other component= s are being fabricated at the factory in Tarragona, Spain, of the project's prime contractor, Schwartz-Hautmont Construcciones Metalicas, S.A. This antenna is the biggest piece in about $54 million worth of improveme= nts NASA chose as priorities for increasing the Deep Space Network's capabilities by November 2003. It will become the network's sixth 34-meter, beam-waveguide antenna. Thre= e are at the network's Goldstone station near Barstow, Calif. The stations near Madrid and near Canberra, Australia, each have one already in operation. Each of the three stations also has a 70-meter (230 foot) ante= nna and several smaller ones. The stations take turns linking with various spacecraft as Earth's rotati= on puts the target spacecraft in view of each station in turn. Putting the new antenna at Madrid gives the biggest possible advantage fo= r handling the upcoming peak in communications needs, including pictures fr= om two advanced rovers from JPL that NASA plans to land on Mars in early 200= 4. This antenna will add about 70 hours of spacecraft-tracking time per week during the periods when Mars is in view of Madrid. That's a 33 percent increase from the station's capacity with its existing antennas. A coincidence of solar system geometry will intensify demand on network resources during the crunch period, Osman said: The comet encounters by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft in November 2003 and by NASA's Stard= ust spacecraft in January 2004 will happen in the same direction from Earth a= s Mars will be. That will minimize opportunities to have one station track = the comet missions while another tracks the Mars missions. So, the Madrid construction team keeps its work on schedule in order to h= ave the new antenna ready when needed. Week-to-week progress can be watched o= n the network's Web site, at http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/antennas/madrid-gallery.html. This month, workers will be installing a circular steel track above the concrete pedestal. The track will provide the precision surface for wheel= s the dish will ride on as it turns to find a distant spacecraft with excit= ing discoveries to report. ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C2267D.82367650 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: baalke@jpl.nasa.gov
Sent: = Monday, July 08, 2002 12:30 PM
T= o: undisclosed-recipients:;
= Subject: New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications
 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/features/spain_ds= n.html

New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary Communications
= Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 8, 2002

Construction workers ere= cting steel components atop a new concrete chamber
near Madrid, Spain,= this summer are helping NASA study Mars and comets.

They are buil= ding a big antenna for the Deep Space Network, which provides
radio co= mmunications for spacecraft exploring the solar system. The network
op= erates clusters of skyward-facing dish antennas at sites in California,Spain and Australia. The antennas catch radioed information from spacec= raft
as near as Earth orbit and as far as more than twice the distance= to Pluto.
They also send commands to the spacecraft. JPL administers = the network for
NASA.

The Spanish construction job has an impor= tant deadline.

NASA needs this new antenna operating by the time a= n unprecedented peak in
demand for deep-space communications hits in N= ovember 2003, said Jeffrey
Osman, Deep Space Network antenna and micro= wave manager at JPL. During the
following three months, three rovers a= nd two orbiters from the United
States, Europe and Japan will arrive a= t Mars, two other spacecraft will
encounter comets, and a third comet = mission will launch. That's on top of
the continuing communication nee= ds of many other missions.

The new antenna will span 34 meters (11= 2 feet) in diameter and will use an
advanced design called "beam waveg= uide," which steers the gathered radio
signals to a protected, undergr= ound electronics room. The design gives more
reliable operation than t= he older antenna design with processing gear up in
the dish.

"C= onstruction is on schedule," Osman said. "The concrete pedestal is in
= place. The steel is going up. The main reflector portion of the dish will= be
lifted as a single piece later this year."

The pedestal enc= loses the electronics room and will support more than 500
tons of ante= nna structure.

Custom-made steel pieces for the antenna's giant di= sh and other components
are being fabricated at the factory in Tarrago= na, Spain, of the project's
prime contractor, Schwartz-Hautmont Constr= ucciones Metalicas, S.A.

This antenna is the biggest piece in abou= t $54 million worth of improvements
NASA chose as priorities for incre= asing the Deep Space Network's
capabilities by November 2003.

I= t will become the network's sixth 34-meter, beam-waveguide antenna. Three=
are at the network's Goldstone station near Barstow, Calif. The stati= ons
near Madrid and near Canberra, Australia, each have one already in=
operation. Each of the three stations also has a 70-meter (230 foot) = antenna
and several smaller ones.

The stations take turns linki= ng with various spacecraft as Earth's rotation
puts the target spacecr= aft in view of each station in turn.

Putting the new antenna at Ma= drid gives the biggest possible advantage for
handling the upcoming pe= ak in communications needs, including pictures from
two advanced rover= s from JPL that NASA plans to land on Mars in early 2004.
This antenna= will add about 70 hours of spacecraft-tracking time per week
during t= he periods when Mars is in view of Madrid. That's a 33 percent
increas= e from the station's capacity with its existing antennas.

A coinci= dence of solar system geometry will intensify demand on network
resour= ces during the crunch period, Osman said: The comet encounters by
NASA= 's Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft in November 2003 and by NASA's Stardust<= BR>spacecraft in January 2004 will happen in the same direction from Eart= h as
Mars will be. That will minimize opportunities to have one statio= n track the
comet missions while another tracks the Mars missions.
=
So, the Madrid construction team keeps its work on schedule in order = to have
the new antenna ready when needed. Week-to-week progress can b= e watched on
the network's Web site, at
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.g= ov/dsn/antennas/madrid-gallery.html.

This month, workers will be i= nstalling a circular steel track above the
concrete pedestal. The trac= k will provide the precision surface for wheels
the dish will ride on = as it turns to find a distant spacecraft with exciting
discoveries to = report.
------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C2267D.82367650-- From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Jul 9 15:43:25 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g69MhO529119; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id SAA28366 for public-list; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:36:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe57.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.192]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28354 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:36:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:35:32 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [130.132.243.45] From: "David M. Ocame" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: microwave relay surplus dishes Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:34:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0010_01C22777.4F8C9540" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jul 2002 22:35:32.0873 (UTC) FILETIME=[EFA2C790:01C22798] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C22777.4F8C9540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I am in the process of finding out from the State of CT as to the = disposition of a bunch of old microwave relay system dishes that have = lain in an old tollplaza parking lot for the last I don't know how many = years. I have no idea what condition they are in. I have only been able = to see them from the highway as I pass through West Haven. THey look to = be of various sizes - I'd say 3 to 5 meters at the most (and 5 meters is = being generous) for the largest of them.=20 If I get the 'go ahead' and it doesn't cost one of my legs to obtain = some of them. And, if they are in decent condition, I have room for no = more than 2 or 3 of them on my property. If - and I say, if! - the = State says to take them all, is anyone else interested? I don't want to get anyone's hopes up (if that's possible given the = preceeding). I've barked up this particualr tree before, and haven't = gotten very far. But, it seems that I've gotten a bit farther than I = have in the past (that the Governor just declared a 'Ham week' in July = might have helped!). Interested parties should send an email to n1yvv@hotmail.com and I'll = keep you informed. Thanks, Dave Ocame, N1YVV ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C22777.4F8C9540 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi all,
 
I am in the process of finding out from = the State=20 of CT as to the disposition of a bunch of old microwave relay system = dishes that=20 have lain in an old tollplaza parking lot for the last I don't know how = many=20 years. I have no idea what condition they are in. I have only been able = to see=20 them from the highway as I pass through West Haven. THey look to be of = various=20 sizes - I'd say 3 to 5 meters at the most (and 5 meters is being = generous) for=20 the largest of them.
 
If I get the 'go ahead' and it doesn't = cost one of=20 my legs to obtain some of them. And, if they are in decent condition, I = have=20 room for no more than 2 or 3 of them on my property. If -  and = I say,=20 if! -  the State says to take them all, is anyone else=20 interested?
 
I don't want to get anyone's hopes up = (if that's=20 possible given the preceeding). I've barked up this particualr tree = before, and=20 haven't gotten very far. But, it seems that I've gotten a bit farther = than I=20 have in the past (that the Governor just declared a 'Ham week' in = July=20 might have helped!).
 
Interested parties should send an email = to n1yvv@hotmail.com and I'll keep = you=20 informed.
 
Thanks,
 
Dave Ocame, = N1YVV
------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C22777.4F8C9540-- From owner-public@setileague.org Wed Jul 10 09:10:43 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6AGAf525762; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id MAA14416 for public-list; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe15.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.32.95]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14410 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:01:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:00:40 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.144] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Another Saturn-like planet found Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:00:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0007_01C22809.66D35DA0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jul 2002 16:00:40.0568 (UTC) FILETIME=[F055AF80:01C2282A] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C22809.66D35DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Another Saturn-like planet found http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2118000/21183= 91.stm Astronomers hunting planets outside our Solar System detect their fifth gas giant with a mass slightly less than Saturn. ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C22809.66D35DA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Another Saturn= -like planet found

http://news.bbc.co.u= k/go/em/fr/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2118000/2118391.stm

As= tronomers hunting planets outside our Solar System detect their fifth
= gas giant with a mass slightly less than Saturn.


= ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C22809.66D35DA0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Wed Jul 10 11:30:52 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6AIUp520397; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id OAA21383 for public-list; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:23:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe73.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.215]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21373 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:23:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:22:32 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.139] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:22:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2281D.37D34330" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jul 2002 18:22:32.0652 (UTC) FILETIME=[C1EEA0C0:01C2283E] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2281D.37D34330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Space Environment Center Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:10 PM To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #02- 28 2002 July 09 at 02:31 p.m. MDT (2002 July 09 2031 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For July 1-7 Space weather increased to strong (category 3) levels during this first week of July. A category R3 (strong) radio blackout peaked at 8:13 p.m. MDT on July 2 (2002 July 03 0213 UTC). A category R2 (moderate) radio blackout reached its peak at 2:10 p.m. MDT on July 3 (2002 July 03 2010 UTC). Both blackouts were due to major solar flares from a sunspot group near the Sun=12s southwest limb. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts occurred during most days. A category S1 (minor) solar radiation storm occurred on July 7 following a moderate-sized, long-duration flare from just beyond the Sun=12s southwest limb. NOAA GOES satellites indicated the storm began at 12:30 p.m. MDT on July 7 (2002 July 07 1830 UTC) and continued as the period ended. There were no geomagnetic storms during the period. For a list of adverse system effects related to space weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales. Outlook For July 10-16 Space weather is expected to be at minor levels. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts are likely. There is a chance for category G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm conditions on July 13 due to increased solar wind velocities. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, =20 USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services =20 and other observatories, universities, and institutions. For more =20 information, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather =20 Advisories Web site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127. The NOAA Public Affairs contact is Barbara McGehan at =20 Barbara.McGehan@noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288. ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2281D.37D34330 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Space Environment Center
Sent:= Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:10 PM
To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov
Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook
 Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Cent= er
Boulder, Colorado, USA

SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #02- 2= 8
2002 July 09 at 02:31 p.m. MDT (2002 July 09 2031 UTC)

**** S= PACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For July 1-7
Space weather in= creased to strong (category 3) levels during this first
week of July. = A category R3 (strong) radio blackout peaked at 8:13 p.m.
MDT on July = 2 (2002 July 03 0213 UTC). A category R2 (moderate) radio
blackout rea= ched its peak at 2:10 p.m. MDT on July 3 (2002 July 03 2010
UTC). Both= blackouts were due to major solar flares from a sunspot
group near th= e Sun=12s southwest limb. Isolated category R1 (minor) radio
blackouts= occurred during most days. A category S1 (minor) solar
radiation stor= m occurred on July 7 following a moderate-sized,
long-duration flare f= rom just beyond the Sun=12s southwest limb. NOAA
GOES satellites indic= ated the storm began at 12:30 p.m. MDT on July 7
(2002 July 07 1830 UT= C) and continued as the period ended. There were
no geomagnetic storms= during the period. For a list of adverse system
effects related to sp= ace weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space
Weather Scales.
=
Outlook For July 10-16
Space weather is expected to be at minor le= vels. Isolated category R1
(minor) radio blackouts are likely. There i= s a chance for category G1
(minor) geomagnetic storm conditions on Jul= y 13 due to increased solar
wind velocities.

Data used to provi= de space weather services are contributed by NOAA,
USAF, NASA, NSF, U= SGS, the International Space Environment Services
and other observato= ries, universities, and institutions. For more
information, including= email services, see SEC's Space Weather
Advisories Web site http://s= ec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127.
The NOAA Public Affairs cont= act is Barbara McGehan at
Barbara.McGehan@noaa.gov or (303) 497-6288.=
------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C2281D.37D34330-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jul 12 07:51:06 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6CEp5500648; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id KAA28896 for public-list; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:43:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe130.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.123]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28888 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:42:45 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.92] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: BioAstronomy 2002 Report Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:42:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000D_01C22990.D2D159C0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jul 2002 14:42:45.0002 (UTC) FILETIME=[624E6EA0:01C229B2] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C22990.D2D159C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bioastronomy 2002: Scientists Look for Life http://www.space.com/searchforlife/bioastronomy_shostak_020711.html Seth Shostak, astronomer at the SETI Institute, is attending a week-long = conference on life in the universe being held in Australia. This is his f= irst report from the scene. ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C22990.D2D159C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Bioastronomy 2= 002: Scientists Look for Life

http://www.space.com/searchf= orlife/bioastronomy_shostak_020711.html

Seth Shostak, astronomer a= t the SETI Institute, is attending a week-long conference on life in the = universe being held in Australia. This is his first report from the scene= .

------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C22990.D2D159C0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Jul 13 12:51:17 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6DJpG515381; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA21553 for public-list; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:45:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21539; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:44:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust201.tnt3.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([65.238.106.201] helo=office) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17TSp2-0000os-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:44:53 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020713154305.0192f1b0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:43:05 -0400 To: n6tx@setileague.org From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: SETI public: posted on behalf of Argonaut Bill Baughman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk My Argus station has been down for a couple of months. I am now in the process of moving to an area where I won't have room to set up an Argus Station, or my C-Band Satellite antenna for that matter. If anyone within a responsible distance of Woodland Hills Calif. would like my Argus antenna equipment, I will give it away for free. I have a 10' dish, Argus feed horn and preamp with connectors which is for free. If someone wants my ICOM 8500, I may sell that if the price is reasonable, remember the ICOM cost about $1500 new. I bought it about 2.5 years ago.. If some is interested email me. Please post this on the appropriate SETI League board. Thank you, William Baughman thx9501@pacbell.net -------------------------------- H. 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From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Jul 13 13:02:56 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6DK2t500781; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id PAA22211 for public-list; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:57:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22207; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust201.tnt3.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([65.238.106.201] helo=office) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17TT0n-0004nt-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:57:02 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020713155511.015221a0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:55:11 -0400 To: public@setileague.org From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: SETI public: periodic invitation Cc: heather@setileague.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk SETIzens, Thanks for your participation on the SETI email discussion list. We in The SETI League appreciate your interest in the scientific search for intellegent life in the universe. This list is hosted by The SETI League, Inc., and is open to the general public. About half of you are members of the international, grass-roots, nonprofit SETI League, and we appreciate your support (although I hasten to add that membership is NOT a prerequisite to participating in the dialogs on this forum). Consider this my every-now-and-then invitation to the rest of you, to take the next step and become a member of The SETI League. Our membership currently stands at roughly 1325 people from all walks of life, residing in 62 countries and all 50 of the US States. 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And in any case, please keep participating in this open forum -- we value your ideas. Regards, Paul -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Jul 13 14:22:29 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6DLMT515810; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id RAA26031 for public-list; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:17:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26018; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:17:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 1cust201.tnt3.loyalsock.pa.da.uu.net ([65.238.106.201] helo=office) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17TUGL-0002Xq-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:17:10 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20020713171502.01924a44@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: drseti@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:15:02 -0400 To: rcf@setileague.org From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Subject: SETI public: ARRL web article Cc: heather@setileague.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk SETIzens, See for a nice writeup about The SETI League. -------------------------------- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, FBIS Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc. 433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555 Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA voice (201) 641-1770; fax (201) 641-1771 n6tx@setileague.org www.setileague.org Project Argus station FN11LH "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Jul 13 18:24:05 2002 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6E1O4516049; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) id VAA07513 for public-list; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:15:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (oe81.pav0.hotmail.com [64.4.33.223]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07502 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:14:47 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.156.255] From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Subject: SETI public: Earth-sized exoplanet confirmed? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:14:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0005.1700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C22AB2.44A00C00" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jul 2002 01:14:47.0285 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8295A50:01C22AD3] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C22AB2.44A00C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Go to Daniel Fischer's Cosmic Mirror Issue 240 (July 12, 2002) for the details and relevant links to this news item: =20 http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/240.html I hope ARGUS members will aim their instruments at this region of the sky and report any results. Earth-sized exoplanet confirmed? The announcement in 1999 (see Update # 130 story 3) had caused both excit= ement and skepticism: Did slight deviations in the light curve of a micro= lensing event really hint at the effects of a planet around the lensing s= tar that has by far the lowest mass of all extrasolar planets ever announ= ced? After three more years of analysis and model checks the observers of= the event known as MACHO 98-BLG-35 are certain now: A star with one or t= wo Earth-mass planets fits the data far better than a star without any pl= anets. =20 =BBThe estimated probability for explaining the data on MACHO 98-BLG-35 w= ithout a planet is < 1 percent,=AB the astronomers based in New Zealand a= nd Japan now conclude: =BBThe best planetary model has a planet of mass ~= 0.4 to 1.5 Earth masses at a projected radius of either ~1.5 or ~2.3 AU,= =AB as several solutions remain viable. And it is also clear that =BBJupi= ter-mass planets can be excluded with projected radii from as wide as abo= ut 30 AU to as close as around 0.5 AU=AB - if there is an exo-Earth circl= ing around the lensing star, it may be alone. (Bond & al., Mon. Not. R. A= stron. Soc. 333 [June 11, 2002] 71-83) =20 The least massive exoplanetary object ever imaged =20 could be S Ori 70 - if the faint dot of light is really a member of the y= oung star cluster Sigma Orionis where already numerous =BBfree-floating=AB= bodies with masses below even that of brown dwarfs have been discovered = (see Update # 206 story 3 sidebar 2). Assuming a membership of the object= to the cluster with its age of only 3 million years, which is indicated = by IR photometry and spectroscopy, the mass of S Ori 70 is just 2 to 8 Ju= piter masses, with 3 Jupiters the most likely value. The discoverers call= it a =BBfree-floating methane dwarf=AB though =BBsub-brown dwarf=AB woul= d be another accepted term. =20 H3+ ions shining in a protoplanetary disk: evidence for a forming Jupiter= ? The ring around the star HD 141569 had already caused excitement when it = was first imaged by the HST (see Update # 117), and now there are surpris= ing spectroscopic observations from it as: There is infrared emission fro= m CO as well as from H3+. The CO comes only from distances from the star = of at least 17 AU, confirming the impression that the interior of the rin= g has already been cleared out by planetary formation. But H3+ cannot coe= xist with CO, and its emission has so far only been seen from the atmosph= eres of the gas planets in the solar system: Could it be that its emissio= n from the HD 141569 system is indicating the ongoing formation of a gian= t proto-Jupiter? (Brittain & Rettig, Nature 418 [July 4, 2002] 57-9) =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C22AB2.44A00C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Earth-sized exoplanet confirmed?

The announcement in 1999 (see Update # 1= 30 story 3) had caused both excitement and skepticism: Did slight dev= iations in the light curve of a microlensing event really hint at the eff= ects of a planet around the lensing star that has by far the lowest mass = of all extrasolar planets ever announced? After three more years of analy= sis and model checks the observers of the event known as MACHO 98-BLG-35 = are certain now: A star with one or two Earth-mass planets fits th= e data far better than a star without any planets.

=BBThe estim= ated probability for explaining the data on