From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Jan 1 11:40:29 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i01JeR1J002903; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA05876 for public-list; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:58:32 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05840; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:57:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from setileague.org ([141.158.136.168]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040101185748.YXRS25266.out001.verizon.net@setileague.org>; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:57:48 -0600 Message-ID: <3FF46D9F.4040203@setileague.org> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:57:35 -0500 From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" Reply-To: drseti@cal.berkeley.edu Organization: The SETI League, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; CDonDemand-Dom) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch N6TX" Subject: SETI public: SETI: SETI League Press Release 04-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [141.158.136.168] at Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:57:47 -0600 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Nobel Laureate to Address SETI League Banquet For more information contact: Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director (201) 641-1770, or email info@setileague.org Little Ferry, NJ.., January 2004 --The SETI League and the 11th International Ham Radio Moonbounce Conference are pleased to announce that they have scheduled Prof. Joseph Taylor, K1JT as featured speaker at their joint SETICon04 Awards Banquet at The College of New Jersey on 7 August 2004. Dr. Taylor, Professor of Physics and former Dean of Faculty at Princeton University, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Russell Hulse, for gravitational research stemming from their earlier discovery at the Arecibo Observatory of the first binary pulsar. Joe Taylor is both a world-class radio astronomer and a lifelong radio amateur, well known for his development of the WSJT and JT-44 digital communications modes being used for moonbounce, meteor scatter and tropo-scatter contacts worldwide. Using his own software and a modest station, he regularly places well in ARRL VHF/UHF and Moonbounce Contests. He routinely acknowledges the prominent role which his amateur radio background has played in his professional and academic success, and can be expected to touch on the important contributions still to be made by dedicated amateurs in the fields of radio astronomy and SETI. In addition to their joint Awards Banquet, the simultaneous SETICon04 Technical Symposium and International Ham Radio Moonbounce Conference promise enthusiasts a weekend full of workshops, speakers, panel discussions and social events. Registration for SETICon, which runs August 6 - 8, 2004, may be submitted via The SETI League's website, at http://www.setileague.org/seticon. The SETICon04 banquet, being held for the fourth year in a row in the Trenton suburb of Ewing NJ, is once again co-sponsored by the IEEE Student Chapter at The College of New Jersey. With Prof. Taylor confirmed as banquet speaker, this year's event is sure to be a sellout, and tickets will likely not be available at the door. You are encouraged to pre-register for this year's banquet by 30 June 2004, using the online form at http://www.setileague.org/seticon/regist04.htm. SETI scientists use a variety of scientific approaches to determine whether humankind is alone in the universe. Since Congress terminated NASA's SETI funding in 1993, The SETI League and other scientific groups have been attempting to privatize the research. Experimenters interested in participating in the search for intelligent alien life, or citizens wishing to help support it, should email to join@setileague.org, check the SETI League Web site at http://www.setileague.org/, send a fax to +1 (201) 641-1771, or contact The SETI League, Inc. membership hotline at +1 (800) TAU-SETI. Be sure to provide us with a postal address to which we will mail further information. The SETI League, Inc. is a membership-supported, non-profit [501(c)(3)], educational and scientific corporation dedicated to the systematic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. P.S. Tearsheets are always appreciated. Thank you. -end- From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Jan 1 16:41:38 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i020fZ1J024461; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:41:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id TAA11956 for public-list; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:04:35 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav52.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.82]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11952; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:04:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:04:02 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.95 by bay4-dav52.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 00:04:01 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.95] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Lowell Observatory seeking new telescope Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:03:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D099.FB78AF70" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 00:04:02.0131 (UTC) FILETIME=[EDAE0230:01C3D0C3] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D099.FB78AF70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.azcentral.com/abgnews/articles/0101LOWELL01a.html Lowell seeking new telescope Observatory, Discovery Communications team on $38 mil project Mike Fimea Arizona Business Gazette Jan. 1, 2004 12:00 AM FLAGSTAFF - A $38 million telescope, being built by Lowell Observatory an= d Discovery Communications Inc., will bring more significant astronomy re= search to northern Arizona. If potential obstacles are cleared, the telescope will be built on an old= cinder quarry near Happy Jack, about 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff. =20 Construction is scheduled to begin next summer, with the telescope ready = for operation by 2008. "A number of large telescopes have been built over the last 15 years usin= g technology that didn't exist before. We need a more capable telescope,"= said Bob Millis, the observatory's director since 1990. Astronomy has become competitive, he said. The telescope "will give a leg up to all our researchers and give us a be= tter competitive advantage." It is expected to enhance research into the Kuiper Belt and near-Earth as= teroids. The Kuiper Belt, discovered in 1992, includes a swarm of icy obj= ects extending from Neptune to unknown distances. More than 2,300 near-Ea= rth asteroids have also been identified in the past decade, with the clos= est objects detected about 50,000 miles away. "We want to be on the leading edge of technical ability and image quality= ," project director Tom Sebring said. "Our challenge is to get the sharpe= st focus and the best resolution possible." The partnership also benefits Discovery Communications, a media company w= hose holdings include the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet. The c= ompany has pledged $10 million to the project, and the observatory has ei= ther raised or has commitments for another $10 million. John Hendricks, founder and chairman of Discovery Communications, is also= a member of the Lowell advisory board. Hendricks is personally contribut= ing $1 million to the telescope project. "John came to believe a new telescope would be good for his company and t= he observatory," Millis said. "The research would be an ongoing source of= programming for the Discovery networks." The telescope will be one of the world's most sophisticated ground-based = instruments. Millis said its wide field of vision can capture four full m= oons in a single exposure, allowing astronomers to spot the faintest astr= al objects. "We can put more emphasis on our study of the solar system, and our affil= iation with the Discovery Channel should make us more competitive when ap= plying for federal (research) grants," he said. Several potential obstacles must be cleared before the telescope can be b= uilt. The site near Happy Jack was selected because the night sky is free= of light pollution that inhibits astronomers. However, the cinder quarry lacks the solid-rock foundation considered opt= imal for a telescope foundation. The site is also prone to high winds; te= sts conducted between last January and July recorded winds of up to 45 mp= h. =20 "We need a unique design because of the soil conditions and the sensitivi= ty of the telescope," said Jose Teran, senior architect at Tucson-based M= 3 Engineering and Technology, which will design the facility. "There can = be no vibration transfers from the building to the pier (mount) of the te= lescope." Lowell must also obtain a special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service= Happy Jack is in the Coconino National Forest. Sebring said he is "guar= dedly optimistic" that the permit will be approved. If not, the observato= ry will consider other sites in Arizona and in Chile. Project costs are increasing as well. In an October news release, Lowell = and Discovery Communications said the telescope would cost $30 million. S= ebring says the final tab will approach $38 million, meaning the observat= ory needs to find other financial backers. "Lowell could build a $30 million telescope without an additional contrib= utor, but it would be painful," Sebring said. "We're currently in discuss= ions with three potential partners and hope to sign two of them." Federal agencies will also be approached for financial support. Millis sa= id the observatory has an annual budget of close to $5 million. Federal g= rants and contracts - mostly from NASA and the National Science Foundatio= n - account for about 40 percent of the budget. "It's a bit of a reach for an institution of our size," Millis said of th= e Discovery project. "But it's a step we believe is really essential to s= ecuring our future. Lowell was founded in 1894, and we want to be here in= 2094." ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D099.FB78AF70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
http://www.azc= entral.com/abgnews/articles/0101LOWELL01a.html

Lowell see= king new telescope

Observatory, Discovery Communi= cations team on $38 mil project

Mike Fimea
Arizona Busin= ess Gazette
Jan. 1, 2004 12:00 AM

FLAGSTAFF - A $38 million telescope, being built by Lowell Obs= ervatory and Discovery Communications Inc., will bring more significant a= stronomy research to northern Arizona.

If potential obstacles are = cleared, the telescope will be built on an old cinder quarry near Happy J= ack, about 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff.

Construction is sched= uled to begin next summer, with the telescope ready for operation by 2008=

"A number of large telescopes have been built over the last 15 y= ears using technology that didn't exist before. We need a more capable te= lescope," said Bob Millis, the observatory's director since 1990.

= Astronomy has become competitive, he said.

The telescope "will giv= e a leg up to all our researchers and give us a better competitive advant= age."

It is expected to enhance research into the Kuiper Belt and = near-Earth asteroids. The Kuiper Belt, discovered in 1992, includes a swa= rm of icy objects extending from Neptune to unknown distances. More than = 2,300 near-Earth asteroids have also been identified in the past decade, = with the closest objects detected about 50,000 miles away.

"We wan= t to be on the leading edge of technical ability and image quality," proj= ect director Tom Sebring said. "Our challenge is to get the sharpest focu= s and the best resolution possible."

The partnership also benefits= Discovery Communications, a media company whose holdings include the Dis= covery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet. The company has pledged $10 millio= n to the project, and the observatory has either raised or has commitment= s for another $10 million.

John Hendricks, founder and chairman of= Discovery Communications, is also a member of the Lowell advisory board.= Hendricks is personally contributing $1 million to the telescope project=

"John came to believe a new telescope would be good for his comp= any and the observatory," Millis said. "The research would be an ongoing = source of programming for the Discovery networks."

The telescope w= ill be one of the world's most sophisticated ground-based instruments. Mi= llis said its wide field of vision can capture four full moons in a singl= e exposure, allowing astronomers to spot the faintest astral objects.
=
"We can put more emphasis on our study of the solar system, and our a= ffiliation with the Discovery Channel should make us more competitive whe= n applying for federal (research) grants," he said.

Several potent= ial obstacles must be cleared before the telescope can be built. The site= near Happy Jack was selected because the night sky is free of light poll= ution that inhibits astronomers.

However, the cinder quarry lacks = the solid-rock foundation considered optimal for a telescope foundation. = The site is also prone to high winds; tests conducted between last Januar= y and July recorded winds of up to 45 mph.

"We need a unique desi= gn because of the soil conditions and the sensitivity of the telescope," = said Jose Teran, senior architect at Tucson-based M3 Engineering and Tech= nology, which will design the facility. "There can be no vibration transf= ers from the building to the pier (mount) of the telescope."

Lowel= l must also obtain a special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service. Hap= py Jack is in the Coconino National Forest. Sebring said he is "guardedly= optimistic" that the permit will be approved. If not, the observatory wi= ll consider other sites in Arizona and in Chile.

Project costs are= increasing as well. In an October news release, Lowell and Discovery Com= munications said the telescope would cost $30 million. Sebring says the f= inal tab will approach $38 million, meaning the observatory needs to find= other financial backers.

"Lowell could build a $30 million telesc= ope without an additional contributor, but it would be painful," Sebring = said. "We're currently in discussions with three potential partners and h= ope to sign two of them."

Federal agencies will also be approached= for financial support. Millis said the observatory has an annual budget = of close to $5 million. Federal grants and contracts - mostly from NASA a= nd the National Science Foundation - account for about 40 percent of the = budget.

"It's a bit of a reach for an institution of our size," Mi= llis said of the Discovery project. "But it's a step we believe is really= essential to securing our future. Lowell was founded in 1894, and we wan= t to be here in 2094."
 
 
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She'll present her= findings at the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair the first we= ekend of March. =20 It took Sasha a month to prepare the aquariums for the experiment, she sa= id. Each had to be completely free of contamination, pressurized and seal= ed. Sasha cut holes in the glass top and slipped in copper tubes so that = each of the seedlings =E2=80=94 18 in each box =E2=80=94 could be watered= =20 She and her dad bought four pounds of "Martian" soil from a company in Io= wa that supplies similar materials to NASA. The heavy, iron-rich soil is = taken from volcanoes in Hawaii and is microscopically identical to the so= il found on Mars, her father, David Rohret, said. =20 The order for Martian air lifted a few eyebrows at Houston-based Matheson= Gas. =20 Mars atmosphere is about 95 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen,= 1.6 percent argon and 0.15 percent oxygen =E2=80=94 unfit for human life= By comparison, Earth's atmosphere contains almost 21 percent oxygen. =20 "When you ask for argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hardly any oxygen, = they get a little concerned," Rohret said. =20 The entire project cost about $1,500 =E2=80=94 pocket change when compare= d to the $370 million price tag on Beagle 2, the British-built Mars lande= r that was supposed to arrive on the Red Planet on Christmas Day. The Eur= opean Space Agency has yet to receive any communication from the craft. =20 This month, the United States plans to put two rovers on Mars. The first = should arrive Saturday. =20 It may be possible to incorporate data gleaned from the rover into her pr= esentation, said Sasha, whose love of science comes from her father, an a= stronomy buff. =20 Two weeks into the eight-week growing season of her experiment, healthy l= ima beans are growing in two aquariums: one with Earth atmosphere and Ear= th soil and the other with Earth atmosphere and Mars soil. However, the s= eedlings planted in the two aquariums with Mars atmosphere have yet to sp= rout. =20 Sasha has deduced oxygen is making the difference. =20 The University of Michigan has done a similar experiment, but not to the = extent of Sasha's project, said Scott Maderer, a chemistry and physics te= acher at Keystone. =20 Donald Howk, Keystone's science department head, said, "This is the type = of project that NASA and the European Space Agency and people going to Ma= rs are going to be interested in. The results she gets will actually be u= seful some day to the first people to visit Mars." =20 Howk said he will try to contact NASA when her experiment is concluded. =20 "She's an outstanding student," he said. "She's excited and she loves to = learn." ------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C3D09D.9B46B0D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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= S.A. student spends less than NASA to test Mars crop results
 
By Karen Adler
San Antonio Express-News
&= nbsp;
Web Posted : 01/01/2004 12:= 00 AM
 
Wh= ile the international space community spends millions on unmanned mission= s to Mars, an eighth-grader at Keystone School is conducting a much cheap= er experiment of her own to find out if life is possible on the Red Plane= t.

"Since everyone's trying to have Mars missions, it'd be helpful to= know you can go up there and grow something while you're there," said 14= -year-old Sasha Rohret, who thought of the experiment two years ago after= watching a television program about Mars.

To find out, she planted 7= 2 lima bean seeds in four 10-gallon glass aquariums that simulate the env= ironments on Earth and Mars. She'll present her findings at the Alamo Reg= ional Science and Engineering Fair the first weekend of March.

It too= k Sasha a month to prepare the aquariums for the experiment, she said. Ea= ch had to be completely free of contamination, pressurized and sealed. Sa= sha cut holes in the glass top and slipped in copper tubes so that each o= f the seedlings =E2=80=94 18 in each box =E2=80=94 could be watered.

= She and her dad bought four pounds of "Martian" soil from a company in Io= wa that supplies similar materials to NASA. The heavy, iron-rich soil is = taken from volcanoes in Hawaii and is microscopically identical to the so= il found on Mars, her father, David Rohret, said.

The order for Marti= an air lifted a few eyebrows at Houston-based Matheson Gas.

Mars atmo= sphere is about 95 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 perc= ent argon and 0.15 percent oxygen =E2=80=94 unfit for human life. By comp= arison, Earth's atmosphere contains almost 21 percent oxygen.

"When y= ou ask for argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hardly any oxygen, they ge= t a little concerned," Rohret said.

The entire project cost about $1,= 500 =E2=80=94 pocket change when compared to the $370 million price tag o= n Beagle 2, the British-built Mars lander that was supposed to arrive on = the Red Planet on Christmas Day. The European Space Agency has yet to rec= eive any communication from the craft.

This month, the United States = plans to put two rovers on Mars. The first should arrive Saturday.

It= may be possible to incorporate data gleaned from the rover into her pres= entation, said Sasha, whose love of science comes from her father, an ast= ronomy buff.

Two weeks into the eight-week growing season of her expe= riment, healthy lima beans are growing in two aquariums: one with Earth a= tmosphere and Earth soil and the other with Earth atmosphere and Mars soi= l. However, the seedlings planted in the two aquariums with Mars atmosphe= re have yet to sprout.

Sasha has deduced oxygen is making the differe= nce.

The University of Michigan has done a similar experiment, but no= t to the extent of Sasha's project, said Scott Maderer, a chemistry and p= hysics teacher at Keystone.

Donald Howk, Keystone's science departmen= t head, said, "This is the type of project that NASA and the European Spa= ce Agency and people going to Mars are going to be interested in. The res= ults she gets will actually be useful some day to the first people to vis= it Mars."

Howk said he will try to contact NASA when her experiment i= s concluded.

"She's an outstanding student," he said. "She's excited = and she loves to learn."

 

 

------=_NextPart_001_000A_01C3D09D.9B46B0D0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 05:04:58 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i02D4u1J028355; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 05:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id HAA26751 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:20:40 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav54.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.84]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA26747; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:20:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 04:20:01 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.15 by bay4-dav54.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:20:01 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Weekend Meteors Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:19:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D100.D11EAEC0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 12:20:01.0622 (UTC) FILETIME=[BEC99760:01C3D12A] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D100.D11EAEC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: SpaceWeather.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 2:05 PM To: SpaceWeather.com Subject: Weekend Meteors Space Weather News for January 1, 2004 http://spaceweather.com The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the year's finest, yet people seldom see it. The shower peaks in early January when northern skies are frequently cloudy, and the chill air discourages lingering outdoors. If you've never seen the Quadrantids, this weekend might be a good time to try. Forecasters expect a flurry of meteors, perhaps 25 to 60 per hour, on Sunday morning, January 4th. Sky watchers in western Europe and eastern parts of North America will have the best view--weather permitting. Visit spaceweather.com for more information. Happy New Year! ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D100.D11EAEC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Sent: Thu= rsday, January 01, 2004 2:05 PM
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Subject= : Weekend Meteors
 
Space Weather News for Janua= ry 1, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

The annual Quadrantid meteor= shower is one of the year's finest, yet
people seldom see it. The sho= wer peaks in early January when northern
skies are frequently cloudy, = and the chill air discourages lingering
outdoors.  If you've neve= r seen the Quadrantids, this weekend might be a
good time to try. Fore= casters expect a flurry of meteors, perhaps 25 to 60
per hour, on Sund= ay morning, January 4th. Sky watchers in western Europe
and eastern pa= rts of North America will have the best view--weather
permitting.
<= BR>Visit spaceweather.com for more information. Happy New Year!

------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D100.D11EAEC0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 05:24:49 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i02DOl1J030695; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 05:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id HAA27326 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:47:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav56.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.86]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA27322; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:47:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 04:47:23 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.15 by bay4-dav56.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:47:23 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: One-tenth of Milky Way galaxy stars may support life Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:47:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D104.A3276C10" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 12:47:23.0945 (UTC) FILETIME=[91B03190:01C3D12E] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D104.A3276C10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99994525 One tenth of stars may support life =20 =20 19:00 01 January 04 =20 NewScientist.com news service =20 One tenth of the stars in our galaxy might provide the right conditions t= o support complex life, according to a new analysis by Australian researc= hers. And most of these stars are on average one billion years older than= the Sun, allowing much more time, in theory, for any life to evolve. The concept of a "galactic habitable zone" (GHZ) for the Milky Way was fi= rst proposed in 2001. Now Charles Lineweaver of the University of New Sou= th Wales and colleagues have defined a life-friendly GHZ using a detailed= model of the evolution of the Milky Way to map the distribution in space= and time of four major factors thought essential for complex life. "We're looking at what we think are the most robust and conservative pre-= requisites for life - but they are very, very basic," Lineweaver says. The researchers conclude that a disc-shaped habitable zone emerged about = eight billion years ago, roughly 25,000 light years from the core of the = Milky Way. The zone has expanded slowly and includes stars born up to abo= ut four billion years ago. It encompasses close to ten per cent of all st= ars ever born in this galaxy. But other researchers say that too little is known about the prerequisite= s for life for this kind of mapping to have a great deal of meaning. "We hardly understand the origin of life, let alone the evolution of comp= lex life. Until we do, it is extraordinarily difficult to talk about habi= table zones," Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Mar= yland, US, told Science. Gas giants =20 Lineweaver stresses that his team is not arguing that complex extra-terre= strial life is probable, or even exists, within their GHZ. "What we're sa= ying is that this is the region that has the most potential for the forma= tion of complex life," he says. The first factor the team considered in mapping the GHZ was the presence = of host stars for a solar system. The second was the presence of sufficie= nt heavy elements to form terrestrial planets. The third was a sufficient= ly safe distance from exploding supernovae. And the fourth was enough tim= e for biological evolution. The team set this figure at a minimum of four= billion years, since this was the amount of time it took for complex lif= e to emerge on Earth. Future work will test the importance of some of these factors, the team a= dds. Only about 100 extra-solar planets have been spotted to date, and th= ese are all Jupiter-like gas giants. But the launch of NASA's Terrestrial= Planet Finder telescope in about 2013 will mark the start of a major sea= rch for nearby planets that could harbour life. Journal reference: Science (vol 303, p59) =20 =20 Emma Young, Sydney ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D104.A3276C10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
http://www.newsci= entist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99994525

One tenth of stars may support lif= e

 
19:00 01 January&nbs= p;04
 
NewScientist.com news service
 

One tenth of the stars in our galaxy might provide the righ= t conditions to support complex life, according to a new analysis by Aust= ralian researchers. And most of these stars are on average one billion ye= ars older than the Sun, allowing much more time, in theory, for any life = to evolve.

The concept of a "galactic habitable zone" (GHZ) for th= e Milky Way was first proposed in 2001. Now Charles Lineweaver of the Uni= versity of New South Wales and colleagues have defined a life-friendly GH= Z using a detailed model of the evolution of the Milky Way to map the dis= tribution in space and time of four major factors thought essential for c= omplex life.

"We're looking at what we think are the most robust a= nd conservative pre-requisites for life - but they are very, very basic,"= Lineweaver says.

The researchers conclude that a disc-shaped habi= table zone emerged about eight billion years ago, roughly 25,000 light ye= ars from the core of the Milky Way. The zone has expanded slowly and incl= udes stars born up to about four billion years ago. It encompasses close = to ten per cent of all stars ever born in this galaxy.

But other r= esearchers say that too little is known about the prerequisites for life = for this kind of mapping to have a great deal of meaning.

"We hard= ly understand the origin of life, let alone the evolution of complex life= Until we do, it is extraordinarily difficult to talk about habitable zo= nes," Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, U= S, told Science.

Gas giants

Emma Young, Sydney

 

Lineweaver stresses that his = team is not arguing that complex extra-terrestrial life is probable, or e= ven exists, within their GHZ. "What we're saying is that this is the regi= on that has the most potential for the formation of complex life," he say= s.

The first factor the team considered in mapping the GHZ was the= presence of host stars for a solar system. The second was the presence o= f sufficient heavy elements to form terrestrial planets. The third was a = sufficiently safe distance from exploding supernovae. And the fourth was = enough time for biological evolution. The team set this figure at a minim= um of four billion years, since this was the amount of time it took for c= omplex life to emerge on Earth.

Future work will test the importan= ce of some of these factors, the team adds. Only about 100 extra-solar pl= anets have been spotted to date, and these are all Jupiter-like gas giant= s. But the launch of NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope in about = 2013 will mark the start of a major search for nearby planets that could = harbour life.

Journal reference: Science (vol 303, p59)

 

------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D104.A3276C10-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 06:23:54 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i02ENr1J013076; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 06:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id IAA28627 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:50:56 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav29.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.59]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28623; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:50:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 05:50:18 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.15 by bay4-dav29.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:50:18 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: ScientificAmerican.com: Our Growing, Breathing Galaxy Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:50:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D10D.6DE72230" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 13:50:18.0926 (UTC) FILETIME=[5BC094E0:01C3D137] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D10D.6DE72230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable January 2004 issue =20 OUR GROWING, BREATHING GALAXY =20 By Bart P. Wakker and Philipp Richter =20 Long assumed to be a relic of the distant past, the Milky Way turns out t= o be a dynamic, living object =20 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?SID=3Dmail&articleID=3D0000107A-6236-1FD= 5-A23683414B7F0000&chanID=3Dsa006 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D10D.6DE72230 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
January 2004 i= ssue
OUR GROWING, BREATHING GALAXY
 
By Bart P. Wakker and Philipp Richter
 
Long assumed to be a relic of the distant past, the Milky Way turns ou= t to be a dynamic, living object
 
 
 
------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D10D.6DE72230-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 09:42:11 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i02Hg71J024198; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA03229 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:26:11 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav5.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.109]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03225; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:26:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:25:37 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.15 by bay4-dav5.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:25:37 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: The Proof is Out There on NPR Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:25:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000C_01C3D12B.81344070" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 17:25:37.0650 (UTC) FILETIME=[6FE96D20:01C3D155] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C3D12B.81344070 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are not alone. Ask the Earthlings around you if they agree and many wi= ll nod emphatically, certain that out there in the vast, dark, and genera= lly undiscovered universe, life in some form or fashion exists. And since= Galileo's telescope first scanned the skies, the search for signs of lif= e beyond the Big Blue marble continues. =20 Right now, a swarm of probes and landers and rovers are all heading for t= he Red Planet. And although news reports continue to say the UK-built Bea= gle 2 has still not phoned home, NASA hopes that its own robot, called Sp= irit, will soon land safely and summarily call Earth, with news of its ne= ighbor, and a fix for a bad case of interplanetary loneliness. http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/01/20040102_b_main.asp ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C3D12B.81344070 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
We are not alo= ne. Ask the Earthlings around you if they agree and many will nod emphati= cally, certain that out there in the vast, dark, and generally undiscover= ed universe, life in some form or fashion exists. And since Galileo's tel= escope first scanned the skies, the search for signs of life beyond the B= ig Blue marble continues.

Right now, a swarm of probes and lander= s and rovers are all heading for the Red Planet. And although news report= s continue to say the UK-built Beagle 2 has still not phoned home, NASA h= opes that its own robot, called Spirit, will soon land safely and summari= ly call Earth, with news of its neighbor, and a fix for a bad case of int= erplanetary loneliness.
 
= ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C3D12B.81344070-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 11:47:47 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i02Jlj1J012154; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id OAA05216 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav75.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.105]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05212; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:04:21 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.15 by bay4-dav75.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:04:21 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.15] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: Any radio noise from Jupiter when Galileo hit it? Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:04:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0015_01C3D139.4C06F010" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2004 19:04:21.0846 (UTC) FILETIME=[3B01FF60:01C3D163] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0015_01C3D139.4C06F010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In 1994 during the violent impacts on Jupiter by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 com= et =20 fragments it was noticed by SETI amateurs that bursts of radio noise were= detected. =20 See URL: http://www.bambi.net/sara/bambisl9.htm for the complete story. =20 My question is, did any amateur SETI-L people make a radio observation of= =20 Jupiter during the time when the Galileo RTGs were supposed to have =20 exploded when the probe hit Jupiter on September 21, 2003? =20 If so, they may have detected anomalous radio bursts similar to =20 the ones made by the Shoemaker-Levy comet. =20 Yet another observation of Jupiter could have been made by the Chandra X-= ray =20 observatory. If there was a nuclear explosion then a burst of anomalous = x-rays =20 would have occurred. Food for thought. Could this be posted to the Argus list as well? Thanks. Happy New Year! Larry ------=_NextPart_001_0015_01C3D139.4C06F010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In 1994 during= the violent impacts on Jupiter by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet
fragments it was noticed by SETI amateurs that bursts of radio noise wer= e detected.

See URL: http://www.bambi.net/sara/bambisl9.h= tm for the complete story.
 
My question is, = did any amateur SETI-L people make a radio observation of
Jupiter dur= ing the time when the Galileo RTGs were supposed to have
exploded whe= n the probe hit Jupiter on September 21, 2003?
 
<= DIV>If so, they may have detected anomalous radio bursts similar to
t= he ones made by the Shoemaker-Levy comet.
 
Y= et another observation of Jupiter could have been made by the Chandra X-r= ay
observatory.  If there was a nuclear explosion then a= burst of anomalous x-rays
would have occurred.  Food fo= r thought.
Could this be posted to the Argus list as well?=   Thanks.

Happy New Year!

Larry
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------=_NextPart_001_0015_01C3D139.4C06F010-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 16:55:20 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i030tI1J007645; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id TAA12005 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:38:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav16.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.120]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12001; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:38:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:37:28 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.85 by bay4-dav16.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:37:27 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.85] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Next Stop for Voyager 1 and 2: Interstellar Space Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:37:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D167.D8F1AE60" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jan 2004 00:37:28.0180 (UTC) FILETIME=[C3CA8B40:01C3D191] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D167.D8F1AE60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Next Stop, Interstellar Space Voyager journeys to the edge of the solar system Ron Cowen On the interplanetary highway, there are no mile markers and no exit sign= s. Precious few clues indicate that you're nearing the edge of the solar = system. Those clues, however, are revealing that the venerable Voyager 1 = spacecraft, launched 26 years ago and now 90 times as far from the sun as= Earth is, either has reached or will soon enter a turbulent region near = the solar system's final frontier. There, the solar wind first slams into= large numbers of atoms and molecules that have leaked into the solar sys= tem from interstellar space. The encounter puts the brakes on the solar w= ind, causing it to abruptly slow from supersonic speeds of 400 to 700 kil= ometers per second down to subsonic speeds of 100 km/sec, according to si= mulations. =20 http://www.sciencenews.org/20040103/bob8.asp ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D167.D8F1AE60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Next Stop, Int= erstellar Space
 
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On the interplanetary highway, there are= no mile markers and no exit signs. Precious few clues indicate that you'= re nearing the edge of the solar system. Those clues, however, are reveal= ing that the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 26 years ago and no= w 90 times as far from the sun as Earth is, either has reached or will so= on enter a turbulent region near the solar system's final frontier. There= , the solar wind first slams into large numbers of atoms and molecules th= at have leaked into the solar system from interstellar space. The encount= er puts the brakes on the solar wind, causing it to abruptly slow from su= personic speeds of 400 to 700 kilometers per second down to subsonic spee= ds of 100 km/sec, according to simulations.
 
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This weekend, a strange sight is scheduled to unfold on the planetMars. Above a vast, dry lake bed south of the martian equator, a
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allowing t= he craft to bounce safely to a stop. Inside is "Spirit,"
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------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C3D16D.A4408C80-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 17:37:25 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i031bN1J014507; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id UAA12861 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:15:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav121.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.151]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA12857; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:15:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:15:25 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.51 by bay4-dav121.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:15:25 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.51] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Astronomers plot galactic habitable zone Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:15:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D16D.266E2920" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jan 2004 01:15:25.0856 (UTC) FILETIME=[11645200:01C3D197] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D16D.266E2920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=3D2105 . Astronomers plot galactic habitable zone =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Posted: Fri, Jan 2 5:06 PM ET (2206 GMT) Astronomers have determined that up to one-tenth of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy lie in a habitable zone that would permit that to have planets that could harbor life. =20 The research, by Australian astronomers and published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, determined that a ring-shaped habitable zone opened in the galaxy 25,000 light-years from its core eight billion years ago. The ring has since expanded and now includes stars as young as four billion years old. The zone's size and location is based on a number of factors, including the presence of heavy elements needed to form planets and stars located a safe distance from supernovae. Related Links: -------------- New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99994525 Scientific American article: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=3Dsa003&articleID=3D00017D43-CFD9= -1FF1-8FD983414B7F0000 The Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/spacedocumentary/story/0,2763,1114867,00.html Daily Telegraph article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=3D/news/2004/01/02/wmars10= 2.xml&sSheet=3D/news/2004/01/02/ixworld.html Visit http://www.spacetoday.net/ to get the latest space news summaries and links to space news articles published throughout the web. If you have any questions about this service, please contact us at info@spacetoday.net. ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D16D.266E2920 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This article i= s also available on the web at:
http://www.spacetoday.net/= getsummary.php?id=3D2105 .

Astronomers plot galactic habitable zon= e
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Posted: Fri, Jan 2 5:06 PM ET (22= 06 GMT)

Astronomers have determined that up to one-tenth of thestars in the Milky Way galaxy lie in a habitable zone that
would perm= it that to have planets that could harbor life.
The research, by Aust= ralian astronomers and published in
Friday's issue of the journal Scie= nce, determined that a
ring-shaped habitable zone opened in the galaxy= 25,000
light-years from its core eight billion years ago.  The r= ing
has since expanded and now includes stars as young as four
bill= ion years old.  The zone's size and location is based on
a number= of factors, including the presence of heavy
elements needed to form p= lanets and stars located a safe
distance from supernovae.

Relat= ed Links:
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New Scientist article:
http://www.newsc= ientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99994525
Scientific American article:=
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=3Dsa003&articleID=3D00017= D43-CFD9-1FF1-8FD983414B7F0000
The Guardian article:
http://www.gua= rdian.co.uk/spacedocumentary/story/0,2763,1114867,00.html
Daily Telegr= aph article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=3D/news/20= 04/01/02/wmars102.xml&sSheet=3D/news/2004/01/02/ixworld.html

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------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C3D16D.266E2920-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Jan 2 18:00:08 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i032071J007024; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:00:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id UAA13179 for public-list; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:29:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts25.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.188]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13175; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:29:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([206.172.161.46]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040103012941.JYTJ6920.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:29:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF61C01.286251FB@sympatico.ca> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:33:53 -0500 From: Yvan Dutil Reply-To: yvan.dutil@sympatico.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [fr]C-SYMPA (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LARRY KLAES CC: setipublic , BioAstro , europa Subject: Re: SETI public: Any radio noise from Jupiter when Galileo hit it? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by seti1.setileague.org id UAB13176 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk Highly unlikely, the ratio of energy is more than a billion to one. On tye other side, there is some hope to observe the entry trail of the Huygens probe in Titan atmosphere next year. Yvan Dutil LARRY KLAES a écrit : > In 1994 during the violent impacts on Jupiter by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 > cometfragments it was noticed by SETI amateurs that bursts of radio > noise were detected. > See URL: http://www.bambi.net/sara/bambisl9.htm for the complete > story. My question is, did any amateur SETI-L people make a radio > observation of > Jupiter during the time when the Galileo RTGs were supposed to have > exploded when the probe hit Jupiter on September 21, 2003? If so, they > may have detected anomalous radio bursts similar to > the ones made by the Shoemaker-Levy comet. Yet another observation of > Jupiter could have been made by the Chandra X-rayobservatory. If > there was a nuclear explosion then a burst of anomalous x-rayswould > have occurred. Food for thought.Could this be posted to the Argus > list as well? Thanks. > Happy New Year! > > Larry > From owner-public@setileague.org Sun Jan 4 09:27:57 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i04HRt1J003621; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA00929 for public-list; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:15:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav102.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.132]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00925; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:15:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:14:40 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.56 by bay4-dav102.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:14:39 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.56] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: Fw: First pictures after NASA's Spirit Rover lands on Mars Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:14:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D2BC.4BBCE0E0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2004 17:14:40.0005 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CC04350:01C3D2E6] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D2BC.4BBCE0E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: NewsAlert Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:31 AM To: Newsalert Subject: First pictures after NASA's Spirit Rover lands on Mars NEWSALERT: Sunday, January 4, 2004 @ 0959 GMT --------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now +++ NEW! 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------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C3D2BC.4BBCE0E0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Sun Jan 4 09:29:22 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i04HTK1J025400; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA01054 for public-list; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:21:14 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav81.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.111]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01050; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:21:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:20:40 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.56 by bay4-dav81.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:20:40 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.56] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Spirit Lands on Mars and Sends Postcards Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:20:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D2BD.270EF750" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2004 17:20:40.0518 (UTC) FILETIME=[13A22E60:01C3D2E7] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D2BD.270EF750 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:51 AM To: ljk4@msn.com Subject: Spirit Lands on Mars and Sends Postcards MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3DSSui3WK40GVO-3BCLCXxIg.. http://jpl.conv= io.net/site/R?i=3DDkqRGq7HHjhO-3BCLCXxIg.. Guy Webster (818) 354-6278 =20 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. January 4, 2004 JPL Newsroom (818) 354-5011 RELEASE: 2004-003 =20 Spirit Lands on Mars and Sends Postcards A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and returned stunning images of the area around its landing site in Gusev Crater. Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully sent a radio signal after the spacecraft had bounced and rolled for several minutes following its initial impact at 11:35 p.m. EST (8:35 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) on January 3. =20 "This is a big night for NASA," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. "We're back. I am very, very proud of this team, and we're on Mars." Members of the mission's flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., cheered and clapped when they learned that NASA's Deep Space Network had received a post-landing signal from Spirit. The cheering resumed about three hours later when the rover transmitted its first images to Earth, relaying them through NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. "We've got many steps to go before this mission is over, but we've retired a lot of risk with this landing," said JPL's Pete Theisinger, project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover Project. Deputy project manager for the rovers, JPL's Richard Cook, said, "We're certainly looking forward to Opportunity landing three weeks from now." Opportunity is Spirit's twin rover, headed for the opposite side of Mars. Dr. Charles Elachi, JPL director, said, "To achieve this mission, we have assembled the best team of young women and men this country can put together. Essential work was done by other NASA centers and by our industrial and academic partners. Spirit stopped rolling with its base petal down, though that favorable position could change as airbags deflate, said JPL's Rob Manning, development manager for the rover's descent through Mars' atmosphere and landing on the surface. NASA chose Spirit's landing site, within Gusev Crater, based on evidence from Mars orbiters that this crater may have held a lake long ago. A long, deep valley, apparently carved by ancient flows of water, leads into Gusev. The crater itself is basin the size of Connecticut created by an asteroid or comet impact early in Mars' history. Spirit's task is to spend the next three months exploring for clues in rocks and soil about whether the past environment at this part of Mars was ever watery and suitable to sustain life. Spirit traveled 487 million kilometers (302.6 million) miles to reach Mars after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on June 10, 2003. Its twin, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, was launched July 7, 2003, and is on course for a landing on the opposite side of Mars on Jan. 25 (Universal Time and EST; 9:05 p.m. on Jan. 24, PST). The flight team expects to spend more than a week directing Spirit through a series of steps in unfolding, standing up and other preparations necessary before the rover rolls off of its lander platform to get its wheels onto the ground. Meanwhile, Spirit's cameras and a mineral-identifying infrared instrument will begin examining the surrounding terrain. That information will help engineers and scientists decide which direction to send the rover first. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at: http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3D1R-tTLENFOFO-3BCLCXxIg.. http://jpl.conv= io.net/site/R?i=3D1FpFeR5uG89O-3BCLCXxIg.. and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at: http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3Dqwhr01ViT0BO-3BCLCXxIg.. http://jpl.conv= io.net/site/R?i=3DuDpKlI9B0zVO-3BCLCXxIg.. . -end- ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D2BD.270EF750 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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To: ljk4@msn.com
Subject: Spirit Lands on Mars and Sends Postcards
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CALIFORNIA IN= STITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Spirit Lands on Mars and Sends Postcards

A traveling = robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and
returned stunning i= mages of the area around its landing site in Gusev
Crater.

Mars= Exploration Rover Spirit successfully sent a radio signal after
the s= pacecraft had bounced and rolled for several minutes following
its ini= tial impact at 11:35 p.m. EST (8:35 p.m. Pacific Standard Time)
on Jan= uary 3.

"This is a big night for NASA," said NASA Administrator S= ean O'Keefe.
"We're back. I am very, very proud of this team, and we'r= e on Mars."

Members of the mission's flight team at NASA's Jet Pro= pulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., cheered and clapped when they le= arned
that NASA's Deep Space Network had received a post-landing signa= l from
Spirit.  The cheering resumed about three hours later when= the rover
transmitted its first images to Earth, relaying them throug= h NASA's
Mars Odyssey orbiter.

"We've got many steps to go befo= re this mission is over, but we've
retired a lot of risk with this lan= ding," said JPL's Pete Theisinger,
project manager for the Mars Explor= ation Rover Project.

Deputy project manager for the rovers, JPL's = Richard Cook, said,
"We're certainly looking forward to Opportunity la= nding three weeks
from now." Opportunity is Spirit's twin rover, heade= d for the opposite
side of Mars.

Dr. Charles Elachi, JPL direct= or, said, "To achieve this mission, we
have assembled the best team of= young women and men this country can
put together. Essential work was= done by other NASA centers and by our
industrial and academic partner= s.

Spirit stopped rolling with its base petal down, though that fa= vorable
position could change as airbags deflate, said JPL's Rob Manni= ng,
development manager for the rover's descent through Mars' atmosphe= re
and landing on the surface.

NASA chose Spirit's landing site= , within Gusev Crater, based on
evidence from Mars orbiters that this = crater may have held a lake long
ago.  A long, deep valley, appar= ently carved by ancient flows of
water, leads into Gusev. The crater i= tself is basin the size of
Connecticut created by an asteroid or comet= impact early in Mars'
history. Spirit's task is to spend the next thr= ee months exploring for
clues in rocks and soil about whether the past= environment at this
part of Mars was ever watery and suitable to sust= ain life.

Spirit traveled 487 million kilometers (302.6 million) m= iles to reach
Mars after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stat= ion, Fla., on
June 10, 2003.  Its twin, Mars Exploration Rover Op= portunity, was
launched July 7, 2003, and is on course for a landing o= n the opposite
side of Mars on Jan. 25 (Universal Time and EST; 9:05 p= m. on Jan. 24,
PST).

The flight team expects to spend more tha= n a week directing Spirit
through a series of steps in unfolding, stan= ding up and other
preparations necessary before the rover rolls off of= its lander
platform to get its wheels onto the ground. Meanwhile, Spi= rit's
cameras and a mineral-identifying infrared instrument will begin=
examining the surrounding terrain. That information will help
engi= neers and scientists decide which direction to send the rover
first.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages = the
Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science,=
Washington. Additional information about the project is available fro= m
JPL at:
http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3D1R-tTLENFOFO-3BCLCXxIg..= http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3D1FpFeR5uG89O-3BCLCXxIg..
and from Co= rnell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at:
http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3Dq= whr01ViT0BO-3BCLCXxIg.. http://jpl.convio.net/site/R?i=3DuDpKlI9B0zVO-3BC= LCXxIg.. .


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------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C3D2BD.270EF750-- From owner-public@setileague.org Sun Jan 4 09:31:46 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i04HVj1J013316; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:31:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA01106 for public-list; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:23:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav39.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.69]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01101; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:23:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:23:12 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.56 by bay4-dav39.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:23:11 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.56] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: Fw: spacetoday.net article: Spirit lands on Mars Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:23:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C3D2BD.825953D0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2004 17:23:12.0175 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E0733F0:01C3D2E7] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C3D2BD.825953D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=3D2107 . Spirit lands on Mars =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Posted: Sun, Jan 4 12:22 AM ET (0522 GMT) NASA's Spirit Mars rover has successfully landed on Mars, project officials report. The spacecraft landed on Mars at 11:35 pm EST Saturday (0435 GMT Sunday) after a six-minute descent phase. Spacecraft controllers had an intermittent signal around that time indicating the spacecraft was bounding across the surface on its airbags, but it took about 15 minutes to finally get a strong signal indicating the spacecraft had come to rest and was in good condition. =20 The spacecraft came to rest on its base petal, simplifying the process of deflating the airbags and unfolding the petals. The first images from the spacecraft on the surface could be transmitted as soon as later today, although it will be about nine days before the rover leaves the lander itself. Related Links: -------------- AP article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&cid=3D624&ncid=3D624&e=3D1&= u=3D/ap/20040104/ap_on_sc/mars_rover Reuters article: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=3DscienceNews&storyID=3D4= 069055§ion=3Dnews SPACE.com article: http://space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_lands_040103.html BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3365371.stm Spaceflight Now mission status center: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html Visit http://www.spacetoday.net/ to get the latest space news summaries and links to space news articles published throughout the web. If you have any questions about this service, please contact us at info@spacetoday.net. ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C3D2BD.825953D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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http://www.spacetoday.net/= getsummary.php?id=3D2107 .

Spirit lands on Mars
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Posted: Sun, Jan 4 12:22 AM ET (0522 GMT)

NASA'= s Spirit Mars rover has successfully landed on Mars,
project officials= report.  The spacecraft landed on Mars at
11:35 pm EST Saturday = (0435 GMT Sunday) after a six-minute
descent phase.  Spacecraft c= ontrollers had an intermittent
signal around that time indicating the = spacecraft was
bounding across the surface on its airbags, but it took=
about 15 minutes to finally get a strong signal indicating
the spa= cecraft had come to rest and was in good condition.
The spacecraft ca= me to rest on its base petal, simplifying
the process of deflating the= airbags and unfolding the
petals. The first images from the spacecraf= t on the surface
could be transmitted as soon as later today, although= it
will be about nine days before the rover leaves the lander
itse= lf.

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AP article:
http://stor= y.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&cid=3D624&ncid=3D624&e=3D1= &u=3D/ap/20040104/ap_on_sc/mars_rover
Reuters article:
http://w= ww.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=3DscienceNews&storyID=3D40690= 55&section=3Dnews
SPACE.com article:
http://space.com/missionla= unches/spirit_lands_040103.html
BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/= 2/hi/science/nature/3365371.stm
Spaceflight Now mission status center:=
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html


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------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C3D2BD.825953D0-- From owner-public@setileague.org Sun Jan 4 09:32:58 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i04HWv1J010839; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA01163 for public-list; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:24:40 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav52.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.82]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01158; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:24:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:24:07 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.56 by bay4-dav52.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:24:07 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.56] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" , "europa" Subject: SETI public: Fw: spacetoday.net article: Spirit returns first images of landing site Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:24:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D2BD.A34C62D0" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2004 17:24:07.0333 (UTC) FILETIME=[8EE7A550:01C3D2E7] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D2BD.A34C62D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This article is also available on the web at: http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=3D2108 . Spirit returns first images of landing site =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Posted: Sun, Jan 4 9:15 AM ET (1415 GMT) The Mars rover Spirit has sent back its first images of its landing site, revealing relatively flat terrain with few obstacles for the rover. The black-and-white images of the landing site were transmitted about three hours after the spacecraft safely landed on the planet. The panoramic images of the Gusev Crater landing site show a flat terrain with few boulders, although a small boulder was seen nestled against the spacecraft itself. Scientists are pleased with the images, concluding that the lack of boulders and other obstacles should make it easy for the rover to travel throughout the area. The first color images from Spirit could come later on Sunday. The rover itself is not expected to leave the lander for over a week, however, as controllers methodically work through a series of steps to prepare the rover for operations. Related Links: -------------- CBS News/Spaceflight Now article: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104imagery.html AP article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&cid=3D624&ncid=3D624&e=3D1&= u=3D/ap/20040104/ap_on_sc/mars_rover Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3DH0LEJCB5C2OR2CRBAEK= SFEY?type=3DscienceNews&storyID=3D4069502 MSNBC article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3855168/ NASA/JPL press release: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/3.cfm Visit http://www.spacetoday.net/ to get the latest space news summaries and links to space news articles published throughout the web. If you have any questions about this service, please contact us at info@spacetoday.net. ------=_NextPart_001_0005_01C3D2BD.A34C62D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Spirit returns first images of landing = site
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Posted: Sun, Jan 4 9:15 AM ET = (1415 GMT)

The Mars rover Spirit has sent back its first images of= its
landing site, revealing relatively flat terrain with few
obsta= cles for the rover.  The black-and-white images of the
landing si= te were transmitted about three hours after the
spacecraft safely land= ed on the planet.  The panoramic
images of the Gusev Crater landi= ng site show a flat terrain
with few boulders, although a small boulde= r was seen nestled
against the spacecraft itself.  Scientists are= pleased with
the images, concluding that the lack of boulders and oth= er
obstacles should make it easy for the rover to travel
throughout= the area.  The first color images from Spirit
could come later o= n Sunday.  The rover itself is not
expected to leave the lander f= or over a week, however, as
controllers methodically work through a se= ries of steps to
prepare the rover for operations.

Related Link= s:
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CBS News/Spaceflight Now article:
http://www.s= paceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104imagery.html
AP article:
http://s= tory.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&cid=3D624&ncid=3D624&e=3D= 1&u=3D/ap/20040104/ap_on_sc/mars_rover
Reuters article:
http://= www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3DH0LEJCB5C2OR2CRBAEKSFEY?ty= pe=3DscienceNews&storyID=3D4069502
MSNBC article:
http://msnbc.= msn.com/id/3855168/
NASA/JPL press release:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov= /releases/2004/3.cfm


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throughout the web.  If you have any questions about this
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MARS: Tonight is a good = night to look at Mars. NASA's six-wheeled rover
Spirit landed there le= ss than 24 hours ago, in a place called Gusev
Crater. Spirit is beamin= g some wonderful images to Earth--you've probably
seen them on TV or o= n the web. But are you ready for a break from screens?
Tonight you can= step outside and see Mars with your own eyes.  Visit
Spaceweathe= r.com for directions and a sky map.

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it's an ellipse. One side = is closer to the sun (147.5 million km) than the
other (152.6 million = km). Today, January 4th, we're at the closest point,
known to astronom= ers as perihelion. The sun looks a bit bigger than
average and sunligh= t falling on Earth is a few percent more intense.
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