From owner-public@setileague.org Sun Feb 1 12:54:52 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i11KsnnQ002853; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id PAA26555 for public-list; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:40:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26474; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:36:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from setileague.org ([141.158.151.140]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040201203636.MZKF8186.out004.verizon.net@setileague.org>; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:36:36 -0600 Message-ID: <401D634E.8090905@setileague.org> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:36:30 -0500 From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" 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: "'Factor, Richard'" CC: "'Wood, Heather'" Subject: SETI public: rushing Spring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [141.158.151.140] at Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:36:34 -0600 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk SETIzens, With a cold winter gripping the Northern Hemisphere, I'm anxious for spring -- so much so that I've published the Spring 2004 issue of SearchLites a bit early. It is now available for download from the Members Only section of our website, at . Read it now to warm up (those of you in the southern hemisphere may read it at your leisure!) Those of you who have paid your 2004 SETI League membership dues in a timely manner will already have received (or will very shortly be receiving) a new User Name and Password via post. These will allow you to download this latest newsletter. If you haven't already sent in your 2004 dues payment, I encourage you to do so straightaway, so we can send you this access information and enable you to download the very latest in members-only benefits. A renewal form is available on the website, at . While you're at it, you may order such membership premiums as the traditional t-shirts and pocket protectors, as well as the new edition of James Gunn's classic SETI novel, The Listeners. If you haven't already considered taking advantage of SETI League Life Membership, I encourage you to consider doing so. Life Members don't have to remember to send in a cheque every year, and they get their annual User Name and Password updates automatically. This is also your last chance to update your membership information; our new Membership Roster comes out shortly. If you have changes of address, email, website, or phone number to report, you may use the update form at . Yours for SETI success, Paul -- H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. 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; URL http://www.setileague.org email work: n6tx@setileague.org; home: drseti@cal.berkeley.edu "We Know We're Not Alone!" From owner-public@setileague.org Wed Feb 11 10:39:03 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1BId0Or028472; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA23532 for public-list; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:23:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f22.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.22]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23528; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:23:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:22:55 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.59 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:22:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.59] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:22:55 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2004 18:22:55.0427 (UTC) FILETIME=[11829130:01C3F0CC] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk



>From: Space Environment Center
>To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov
>Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:20:16 GMT
>
>Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center
>Boulder, Colorado, USA
>
>SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #04- 6
>2004 February 10 at 12:12 p.m. MST (2004 February 10 1912 UTC)
>
>**** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****
>
>Summary For February 2-8
>Space weather during the past week briefly reached moderate levels.
>Category G1 (minor) and G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm levels were
>observed early on February 02 due to high speed solar wind from a
>coronal hole on the Sun.  A moderate sized sunspot cluster rotated onto
>the visible disk of the Sun on February 07, and produced an R1 (minor)
>radio blackout on February 08. For a list of adverse system effects
>related to space weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather
>Scales.
>
>Outlook For February 11-17
>Space weather for the next week may reach minor levels. There is a
>chance for R1 radio blackouts from two moderate sized sunspot clusters
>on the visible disk.  G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm levels are expected
>during the latter half of the period due to high speed solar wind from
>a coronal hole on the sun.
>
>For current space weather conditions please refer to:
>http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
>http://www.sec.noaa.gov/alerts/
>
>Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA,
>USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services
>and other observatories, universities, and institutions. For more
>information, including email services, see SEC's Space Weather
>Advisories Web site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or (303) 497-5127.

Create your own personal Web page with the info you use most, at My MSN. From owner-public@setileague.org Wed Feb 11 10:44:45 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1BIihOr005331; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:44:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id NAA23590 for public-list; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:26:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f17.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.17]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23586; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:26:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:25:49 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.59 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:25:49 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.59] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: [vsnet-alert 7997] SN Ia 2004S Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:25:49 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2004 18:25:49.0757 (UTC) FILETIME=[796B36D0:01C3F0CC] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk



>From: Hitoshi YAMAOKA
>To: vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp,vsnet-campaign-sn@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp,vsnet-obs@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>Subject: [vsnet-alert 7997] SN Ia 2004S
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:49:58 +0900 (JST)
>
>In [vsnet-campaign-sn 777]:
> >SN2004S  20031230.583 <190:R  PAS
> >SN2004S  20040203.542  160:R  PAS
> >SN2004S  20040204.560  160:R  PAS
> >SN2004S  20040205.65   136:CR Per
> >
> ># SN 2004S (6:45:43.50, -31:13:52.5 (J2000.0), offset = 47"W, 3"S) is
> ># hosted by MCG -05-16-21, a spiral (S...) galaxy.  The expected
> ># maximum for a typical SN Ia is mag about 14.8.  The magnitude at
> ># Feb. 5.65 UT is far brigher than this, and the rising curve during
> ># these two days is unordinally large and peculiar.  The followup
> ># photometry and the spectroscopic confirmation is strongly encouraged
> ># for this southern object.
>
>SN2004S  20040207.225  14.64U  KRI
>SN2004S  20040207.225  14.55B  KRI
>SN2004S  20040207.225  14.45V  KRI
>SN2004S  20040207.225  14.39R  KRI
>SN2004S  20040207.225  14.76I  KRI
>
># The CTIO spectrum taken on Feb. 6.1 UT revealed that it is a type Ia
># SN about 5 days after maximum.  The reported photometries by the
># discoverer and the confirmer should contain some error.  I have no
># idea to explain the spectrum obtained by L. Kiss (vsnet-alert 7994).

Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Feb 12 06:40:22 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1CEeKOr010533; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id JAA18111 for public-list; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:21:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f39.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.39]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18086; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:20:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:20:17 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.19 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:20:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.19] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: bioastro@setileague.org Cc: public@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: Faking space photos Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:20:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2004 14:20:17.0447 (UTC) FILETIME=[56B0DB70:01C3F173] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-pl.himowitz12feb12001707,0,5882199.column?coll=bal-home-columnists
 
Space photo contents often are all in eye of the beholder
 
Mike Himowitz
 

WHEN IT COMES to space, seeing is not necessarily believing.

Consider the photo that landed on my desk the other day. At first it looks like one of the standard Mars shots that NASA has been posting online for more than a month now.

It shows the front of the Spirit rover in the foreground and the now-famous ruddy, rock-strewn Martian landscape. But look a bit further into the distance and you'll see them - a Starbucks and a McDonald's arch, looking quite at home.

A friend who found the photo on the Web passed a print on to me, and it generated quite a few laughs at the office - along with some dark oaths from photographers to the effect that this kind of junk is why people don't believe the pictures they see anymore.

Meanwhile, there's nothing like a torrent of legitimate photos from space to bring out the UFO freaks, conspiracy theorists and fanatics who claim to see ancient cities, faces and religious images in pictures of the Martian surface and faraway galaxies.

 


Keep up with high-tech trends here at "Hook'd on Technology." From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Feb 12 09:07:33 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1CH7VOr029780; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id LAA21099 for public-list; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:47:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f14.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.14]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21095; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:47:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:47:03 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.34 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:47:03 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.34] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: Jonathan's Space Report, No. 520 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:47:03 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2004 16:47:03.0468 (UTC) FILETIME=[D77D06C0:01C3F187] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk



>From: owner-jsr@host.planet4589.org
>Subject: Jonathan's Space Report, No. 520
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:22:18 -0500
>
>Jonathan's Space Report
>No. 520                                      2004 Feb 11, Somerville, MA
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The Progress No. 248 (M-48) cargo ship was undocked from Zvezda at
>0835:56 on Jan 28 and deorbited at 1311 UTC over the Pacific, completing
>the ISS 12P mission. The new cargo ship, Progress No. 260 (Progress
>M1-11) was launched from Baykonur on Jan 29 at 1158:08 on ISS mission
>13P and docked with the Zvezda module on the Space Station at 1313:11
>UTC on Jan 31. The new Progress carries cargo including experiments for
>the ESA/Netherlands DELTA mission and two new Orlan spacesuits, serials
>M-25 and M-26. It also carries a replacement flexhose for the Destiny
>lab window (culprit in last month's air leak) and equipment to be
>installed on Zvezda to support docking by the new European ATV cargo
>ship Jules Verne.
>
>Opportunity began roving on Mars at 0950 UTC on Jan 31. (Parachute and
>heat shield separation time for Opportunity was of course 0452-0453 UTC
>on Jan 25, not 0504 UTC as I said in JSR 519.)
>Opportunity has now peeped over the crater rim and seen its parachute
>and backshell lying on the Meridiani plains beyond. Spirit's file system
>was reformatted on Feb 4 and it has now resumed its exploration of the
>Gusev region.
>
>Location of the MER landings:
>                     (Areocentric)        (IAU Areographic)
>     Spirit          14.57S     175.47E   14.93S  184.53W
>     Opportunity      1.95S     354.47E    1.98S    5.53W
>
>(While one JPL release gave the Spirit location to 0.0001 deg, their
>  superimposed image is significantly off the later known location
>  of the lander. Anyone who has more accurate coords, please forward them
>  - I'd like to catalog the separate positions of the heat shields and
>    backshells, which are about 0.01 deg away from the landers).
>
>SES Americom's AMC-10 satellite was launched on Feb 5 by a Lockheed
>Martin/ILS Atlas IIAS from Cape Canaveral. The satellite is a Lockheed
>Martin A2100 with a launch mass of 2315 kg and 907 kg dry (Thanks to David
>Legangneux for the mass data). After launch at 2346 UTC, Centaur AC-165
>reached a 185 x 185 km orbit at 2355 UTC. The second Centaur burn at
>0009 UTC on Feb 6 put the satellite in geostationary transfer orbit.
>AMC-10 will replace Satcom C-4. The AMC (Americom) series of satellites
>descends from the original RCA Americom system first launched in 1975
>as one of the earliest private telecom satellite networks.
>
>Cutting Space Science?
>----------------------------------
>
>Although the President's 2005 budget request to Congress includes an
>overall small increase for NASA to pay for new human space exploration,
>some aspects of space science and astronomy are under the axe. The
>detailed status of the NASA space science budget remains unclear, but
>the overall picture is not encouraging, with immediate cuts to some
>programs and a forecast of a long term continuing (inflation-adjusted)
>decrease for overall science to pay for the new human exploration
>intiative.
>
>The total extrasolar astronomy budget (Origins and SEU themes) has
>remained stable this year, but there have been major reallocations with
>no consultation with the science peer-review community. Although some
>programs such as the JWST infrared telescope and the search for
>extrasolar planets have managed to argue that they are part of
>`exploration' and for now survive unscathed or even boosted (until the
>real costs of the CEV program require further cuts)  some of the most
>scientifically successful parts of NASA, including the Explorer program
>and the Structure/Evolution of the Universe theme (SEU) appear to be
>facing a bleak long-term future.
>
>Cuts are being made to the Explorer program previously extolled as a
>flagship example of a federal program (recent Explorer missions included
>WMAP, which determined the age of the Universe).  MIDEX and SMEX
>missions are to be delayed and cut back. (One colleague commented that
>the idea that the Explorers don't do exploration was 'positively
>Orwellian'). Money is also being taken from the budget of the
>Constellation X mission, highly rated by the National Academy of
>Sciences; the mission will be postponed for an unknown amount of time.
>The Beyond Einstein probes, previously expected to start getting funding
>this year, are to be indefinitely delayed.
>
>Editorial (last one for a while I hope)
>---------
>
>While the Station program was over budget and slipping, and the Mars
>probes were failing, missions like the Explorers and Chandra were a
>bright spot for NASA. Now our hard work and success are to be rewarded
>with significant cutbacks. Let me say it clearly: I support the idea of
>an enhanced human exploration program, but I strongly oppose paying for
>it at the cost of losing the successors to Chandra and WMAP, and the
>chance of a partial replacement for  Hubble (which JWST is not). I
>believe there is strong public support for basic research, there are
>clear technological and educational benefits to understanding the
>extreme physics these missions study, and the US national interest would
>be best served by protecting the relatively small amount of money in the
>successful and productive program to study the deep universe,  even at
>the cost of slight stretchout of the ambitious exploration program. At
>the very least, the space community should be aware that these decisions
>are being made rather than passing over them in silence - it's such a
>small part of the budget that analyses in magazines like AvWeek didn't
>mention it.
>
>Table of Recent Launches
>-----------------------
>
>Date UT       Name            Launch Vehicle  Site            Mission    INTL.
>                                                                           DES.
>Jan 11 0413   Estrela do Sul    Zenit-3SL       Odyssey           Comms      01A
>Jan 29 1158   Progress M1-11    Soyuz-U         Baykonur          Cargo      02A
>Feb  5 2346   AMC-10            Atlas IIAS      Canaveral SLC36A  Comms      03A
>
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From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Feb 13 09:09:39 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1DH9aOr007668; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:09:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id LAA20351 for public-list; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:53:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f28.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.28]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20347; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:53:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:52:48 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.63 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:52:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.63] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org, europa@klx.com Subject: SETI public: Darwin's Universe Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2004 16:52:48.0876 (UTC) FILETIME=[CFC7DAC0:01C3F251] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >Science/Astronomy: >* Mystery Continues: Scientists Baffled by Spheres on Mars >http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/opportunity_spheres_040212.html > >A new close-up image of the Martian surface reveals more of the tiny >spherical objects that have been puzzling scientists for several days. >Researchers reiterated that they don't know what process created the >spheres but that they don't think biology is involved. > >* Darwin's Universe >http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_darwin_backus_040212.html > >For most of history, people thought the sky was unchanging and life was as >it had always been. > _________________________________________________________________ Keep up with high-tech trends here at "Hook'd on Technology." http://special.msn.com/msnbc/hookedontech.armx From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Feb 13 16:04:35 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1E04XOr002807; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:04:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id SAA28957 for public-list; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:50:07 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from web20605.mail.yahoo.com (web20605.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.163]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA28953 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:50:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20040213235003.61615.qmail@web20605.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.8.143.66] by web20605.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:50:03 PST Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:50:03 -0800 (PST) From: Pete Heist Subject: SETI public: search for artificial lighting To: public@setileague.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk This is a long shot, but I'm wondering- what about searching for artificial lighting? What if ET uses sodium vapor or mercury vapor lights, and they're on a huge, brightly lit planet with heinous light pollution? What if we swing our largest telescope towards some of the known extrasolar planets and try to look for a pre-supposed spectral change over time? I think what a fixed outside observer would see on Earth (if they could) is daily and yearly cycles of artificial light intensity changes of various types as earth rotates and revolves and seasons change. I could easily talk myself out of the practicality of this, the distances, the low signal strength, the inability to distinguish between what's natural and artificial, the inability to resolve details right next to a star and once we see something, the inability to prove that it comes from an intelligence...just throwing out a line for some feedback. What might we speculate that remote artificial lighting like ours looks like from this vantage point, or what clues might give it away? cheers, Pete __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Feb 14 07:43:02 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1EFh1Or027547; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:43:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id KAA17737 for public-list; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:27:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f16.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.16]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17733; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:27:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:27:05 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.84 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:27:04 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.84] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: HUBBLE AND KECK TEAM UP TO FIND FARTHEST KNOWN GALAXY IN THE UNIVERSE Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:27:04 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2004 15:27:05.0118 (UTC) FILETIME=[00466BE0:01C3F30F] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >From: Laura Kraft >To: "'news@keckobservatory.org'" >Subject: HUBBLE AND KECK TEAM UP TO FIND FARTHEST KNOWN GALAXY IN THE >UNIVERSE >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:56:11 -1000 > >EMBARGOED UNTIL 7:00 a.m. Hawaii Time SUNDAY February 15, 2004 >(9:00 Pacific/12:00 pm Eastern/18:00 Europe) > >On the Web: http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/news/draftz_7.html > >Media Contact: >Laura K. Kraft >CARA/W. M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela, HI >(808) 885-7887 >lkraft@keck.hawaii.edu > >Robert Tindol >Caltech, Pasadena, CA >(626) 395-3631 >tindol@caltech.edu > >Ray Villard >Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD; >(410) 338-4514 >villard@stsci.edu > >Lars Lindberg Christensen >Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre, Garching, Germany >+49-89-320-06-306 >lars@eso.org > > >HUBBLE AND KECK TEAM UP TO FIND FARTHEST KNOWN GALAXY IN THE UNIVERSE > >KAMUELA, Hawaii (February 15, 2004) A team of astronomers may have >discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 >billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 >million years after the big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of >its current age. > >The primeval galaxy was identified by combining the power of NASA's Hubble >Space Telescope and CARA's W. M. Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. >These great observatories got a boost from the added magnification of a >natural "cosmic gravitational lens" in space that further amplifies the >brightness of the distant object. > >"We are looking at the first evidence of our ancestors on the evolutionary >tree of the entire universe," said Dr. Frederic Chaffee, director of the W. >M. Keck Observatory, home to the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes that >confirmed the discovery. "Telescopes are virtual time machines, allowing >our >astronomers to look back to the early history of the cosmos, and these >marvelous observations are of the earliest time yet." > >The newly discovered galaxy is likely to be a young galaxy shining during >the end of the so-called "Dark Ages" -- the period in cosmic history which >ended with the first galaxies and quasars transforming opaque, molecular >hydrogen into the transparent, ionized universe we see today. > >The new galaxy was detected in a long exposure of the nearby cluster of >galaxies Abell 2218, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board >the >Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster is so massive that the light of >distant >objects passing through the cluster actually bends and is amplified, much >as >a magnifying glass bends and magnifies objects seen through it. Such >natural >gravitational "telescopes" allow astronomers to see extremely distant and >faint objects that could otherwise not be seen. The extremely faint galaxy >is so far away its visible light has been stretched into infrared >wavelengths, making the observations particularly difficult. > >"As we were searching for distant galaxies magnified by Abell 2218, we >detected a pair of strikingly similar images whose arrangement and color >indicate a very distant object," said California Institute of Technology >(Caltech) astronomer Jean-Paul Kneib, who is lead author reporting the >discovery in a forthcoming article in the Astrophysical Journal. > >Analysis of a sequence of Hubble images indicate the object lies in between >a redshift of 6.6 and 7.1, making it the most distant source currently >known. However, long exposures in the optical and infrared taken with >spectrographs on the 10-meter Keck telescopes suggests that the object has >a >redshift towards the upper end of this range, around redshift 7. > >Redshift is a measure of how much the wavelengths of light are shifted to >longer wavelengths. The greater the shift in wavelength toward the redder >regions of the spectrum, the more distant the object is. > >"The galaxy we have discovered is extremely faint, and verifying its >distance has been an extraordinarily challenging adventure," said Dr. >Kneib. >"Without the magnification of 25 afforded by the foreground cluster, this >early object could simply not have been identified or studied in any detail >at all with the present telescopes available. Even with aid of the cosmic >lens, the discovery has only been possible by pushing our current >observatories to the limits of their capabilities!" > >Using the combination of the high resolution of Hubble and the large >magnification of the cosmic lens, the astronomers estimate that this >object, >although very small -- only 2,000 light-years across -- is forming stars >extremely actively. However, two intriguing properties of the new source >are >the apparent lack of the typically bright hydrogen emission line and its >intense ultraviolet light which is much stronger than that seen in >star-forming galaxies closer by. > >"The properties of this distant source are very exciting because, if >verified by further study, they could represent the hallmark of a truly >young stellar system, that ended the Dark Ages," added Dr. Richard Ellis, >Steele Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, and a co-author in the article. > >The team is encouraged by the success of their technique and plans to >continue the search for more examples by looking through other cosmic >lenses >in the sky. > >"Estimating the abundance and characteristic properties of sources at early >times is particularly important in understanding how the universe reionized >itself, thus ending the Dark Ages," said Mike Santos, a former Caltech >graduate student, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of >Astronomy, Cambridge, UK. "The cosmic lens has given us a first glimpse >into >this important epoch. We are now eager to learn more by finding further >examples, although it will no doubt be challenging." > >The Caltech team reporting on the discovery consists of Drs. Jean-Paul >Kneib, Richard S. Ellis, Michael R. Santos and Johan Richard. Drs. Kneib >and >Richard also serve the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees of Toulouse, France. Dr. >Santos also represents the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK. > >The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated by the California Association for >Research in Astronomy, a scientific partnership of the California Institute >of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics >and Space Administration. > ># # # > > _________________________________________________________________ Find great local high-speed Internet access value at the MSN High-Speed Marketplace. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200360ave/direct/01/ From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Feb 14 09:28:29 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1EHSROr006832; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA20021 for public-list; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:12:52 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f32.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.32]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20017; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:12:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:12:17 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.84 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:12:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.84] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: FW: Re: FW: SETI public: search for artificial lighting Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:12:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2004 17:12:17.0833 (UTC) FILETIME=[B2F24990:01C3F31D] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >From: "Robert J. Bradbury" >To: LARRY KLAES >CC: scot.stride@verizon.net, "Milan M. Cirkovic" , "Dr. >Stuart A. Kingsley" , , > >Subject: Re: FW: SETI public: search for artificial lighting >Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:07:04 -0800 (PST) > > > > > >From: Pete Heist > > >Subject: SETI public: search for artificial lighting > > >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:50:03 -0800 (PST) > > > >This is a long shot, but I'm wondering- what about > > >searching for artificial lighting? What if ET uses > > >sodium vapor or mercury vapor lights, and they're on a > > >huge, brightly lit planet with heinous light > > >pollution? ... [snip]. > >The problem is that even the largest scopes could probably >not detect specific planetary light sources as distinct >from the the amount of radiation from the star. This is what >missions like the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) are supposed >to try and do. > >There is the problem of resolution to point at the planet >rather than the star and the fact that the quantity of >radiation from the star simply dwarfs the radiation from planets >below or even slightly above our level of development in >the visible part of the spectrum. > >Then on top of that the window of opportunity is probably >going to be very small -- except for civilizations with >very slow development times the probable window where one >goes from the level where you can construct the light >sources suggested to the level where you no longer need >them is perhaps at most a couple of hundred years. Most >of the biological systems on planets are going to be far >behind us or more likely (given the Lineweaver group >work) far ahead of us. > >What you want to do is look for is stars going dark or >high power sources of IR radiation (as Dyson pointed >out 44 years ago(!)). They have larger detection windows. > >Robert > > _________________________________________________________________ Create your own personal Web page with the info you use most, at My MSN. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200364ave/direct/01/ From owner-public@setileague.org Sat Feb 14 12:49:25 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1EKnMOr030676; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:49:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id PAA24120 for public-list; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:36:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f7.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.7]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24116 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:36:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:36:25 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.84 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:36:25 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.84] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: S&T's Weekly News Bulletin for February 13 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:36:25 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2004 20:36:25.0689 (UTC) FILETIME=[373CCC90:01C3F33A] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >From: >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: S&T's Weekly News Bulletin for February 13 >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:03:06 -0500 > >======================================================================== > > * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - February 13, 2004 * * * > >======================================================================== > >Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images, the full text of stories >abridged here, and other enhancements are available on our Web site, >SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided below. (If the links don't work, >just manually type the URLs into your Web browser.) Clear skies! > >======================================================================== > >LENSED QUASARS HIT THE CHARTS > >Astronomy is a record-breaking science. When a very wide gravitationally >lensed quasar was announced in late 2003, breaking the separation record >set by a similar object discovered in 1979, Joachim Wambsganss (University >of Potsdam, Germany) wrote in the journal NATURE: "It's a safe bet that it >won't be another 24 years until this quasar record is broken." Little did >he know that the record would be shattered within three weeks.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1177_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >AMATEUR SHOOTS MARS "PICTURE OF THE YEAR" > >A California amateur astrophotographer recently received a unique double >honor by having two of his Mars images featured in two well-known >publications. Wally Pacholka's portraits of the red planet last July 21st >over Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park near Lake Mead were chosen by TIME >and LIFE magazines for their respective editions of pictorial highlights >of 2003. His photo of brilliant Mars shining through Arch Rock was >published as one of TIME's "Pictures of the Year" last December 22nd, >while his image showing the planet next to a formation called Poodle Rock >is in LIFE's "The Year in Pictures...." > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1176_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >STARDATE 2004: "SIMPLY THE BEST" > >On January 23-26 New Zealand's Phoenix Astronomical Society held its 16th >annual Stardate star party near Napier on the North Island's east coast. >Nearly 150 attendees were treated to spectacular views of the Magellanic >Clouds, the Eta Carinae Nebula, and a host of deep-sky splendors in the >rich southern Milky Way. An auroral display on the 23rd as well as the >fine placement of Comet NEAT (C/2001 Q4) near the Small Magellanic Cloud >added to the sky's grandeur that night. "To quote Tina Turner," says >Lesley Hall, the event's organizer, "this year's Stardate was 'simply the >best, better than all the rest.'" > >But the observing was just a part of Stardate's success. "This year," Hall >says, "Stardate achieved a balance, providing a little bit of enjoyment >for everyone -- from kids to adults, from telescope makers to binocular >observers, and from astrophotographers to armchair learners...." > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1174_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >HUBBLE DEBATE HEATS UP > >The fate of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) remains uncertain as >astronomers, the public, and Congress continue to question whether NASA >administrator Sean O'Keefe was justified in deciding to stop servicing the >orbiting observatory. Without another upgrade by Space Shuttle astronauts, >the telescope will cease to function within the next few years rather than >last till the end of the decade, as astronomers had hoped. O'Keefe >announced his surprise ruling on January 16th; since then, growing >opposition to the decision has kept him and his deputies on the defensive. >With Congress set to hold hearings this week on the space agency's budget >and on President George W. Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and >Mars, there's no sign that the controversy will subside anytime soon.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1175_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >BLOWIN' IN THE PLANETARY WIND > >First it was sodium, then it was hydrogen, now it's oxygen and carbon. >Astronomers are detecting more and more atmospheric constituents of HD >209458b, a gas-giant extrasolar planet that orbits its star at only >one-eighth the average distance of Mercury from the Sun.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1172_1.asp > >======================================================================== > >HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY > >* Last-quarter Moon on Friday, February 13th. >* New Moon on Friday, February 20th. >* Venus (magnitude -4.1, in Pisces) is the brilliant white "Evening Star" >shining in the west during twilight and early evening. 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Images, the full text of stories >abridged here, and other enhancements are available on our Web site, >SkyandTelescope.com, at the URLs provided below. (If the links don't work, >just manually type the URLs into your Web browser.) Clear skies! > >======================================================================== > >LENSED QUASARS HIT THE CHARTS > >Astronomy is a record-breaking science. When a very wide gravitationally >lensed quasar was announced in late 2003, breaking the separation record >set by a similar object discovered in 1979, Joachim Wambsganss (University >of Potsdam, Germany) wrote in the journal NATURE: "It's a safe bet that it >won't be another 24 years until this quasar record is broken." Little did >he know that the record would be shattered within three weeks.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1177_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >AMATEUR SHOOTS MARS "PICTURE OF THE YEAR" > >A California amateur astrophotographer recently received a unique double >honor by having two of his Mars images featured in two well-known >publications. Wally Pacholka's portraits of the red planet last July 21st >over Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park near Lake Mead were chosen by TIME >and LIFE magazines for their respective editions of pictorial highlights >of 2003. His photo of brilliant Mars shining through Arch Rock was >published as one of TIME's "Pictures of the Year" last December 22nd, >while his image showing the planet next to a formation called Poodle Rock >is in LIFE's "The Year in Pictures...." > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1176_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >STARDATE 2004: "SIMPLY THE BEST" > >On January 23-26 New Zealand's Phoenix Astronomical Society held its 16th >annual Stardate star party near Napier on the North Island's east coast. >Nearly 150 attendees were treated to spectacular views of the Magellanic >Clouds, the Eta Carinae Nebula, and a host of deep-sky splendors in the >rich southern Milky Way. An auroral display on the 23rd as well as the >fine placement of Comet NEAT (C/2001 Q4) near the Small Magellanic Cloud >added to the sky's grandeur that night. "To quote Tina Turner," says >Lesley Hall, the event's organizer, "this year's Stardate was 'simply the >best, better than all the rest.'" > >But the observing was just a part of Stardate's success. "This year," Hall >says, "Stardate achieved a balance, providing a little bit of enjoyment >for everyone -- from kids to adults, from telescope makers to binocular >observers, and from astrophotographers to armchair learners...." > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1174_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >HUBBLE DEBATE HEATS UP > >The fate of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) remains uncertain as >astronomers, the public, and Congress continue to question whether NASA >administrator Sean O'Keefe was justified in deciding to stop servicing the >orbiting observatory. Without another upgrade by Space Shuttle astronauts, >the telescope will cease to function within the next few years rather than >last till the end of the decade, as astronomers had hoped. O'Keefe >announced his surprise ruling on January 16th; since then, growing >opposition to the decision has kept him and his deputies on the defensive. >With Congress set to hold hearings this week on the space agency's budget >and on President George W. Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and >Mars, there's no sign that the controversy will subside anytime soon.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1175_1.asp > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >BLOWIN' IN THE PLANETARY WIND > >First it was sodium, then it was hydrogen, now it's oxygen and carbon. >Astronomers are detecting more and more atmospheric constituents of HD >209458b, a gas-giant extrasolar planet that orbits its star at only >one-eighth the average distance of Mercury from the Sun.... > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1172_1.asp > >======================================================================== > >HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY > >* Last-quarter Moon on Friday, February 13th. >* New Moon on Friday, February 20th. >* Venus (magnitude -4.1, in Pisces) is the brilliant white "Evening Star" >shining in the west during twilight and early evening. A telescope will >show its gibbous shape. > >For details, see This Week's Sky at a Glance and Planet Roundup: > > > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance/ > >======================================================================== > >SEE THE ASTRONOMICAL STATES OF AMERICA (Advertisement) > >Join SKY & TELESCOPE as we travel to USA astronomy destinations! > >Arizona Deep Skies & Deserts >October 2-9, 2004 > >Explore the astronomical capital of the world as we visit Kitt Peak >National Observatory, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, U.S. >Geological Survey's Astrogeology Branch, as well as magnificent Barringer >Meteor Crater and Whipple and Lowell observatories. We'll also enjoy >specially arranged stargazing sessions under the dark, deep-desert skies. > > > http://www.tq-international.com/Arizona2004/arizona.htm > >New Mexico Astronomy & Aerospace >October 9-16, 2004 > >Discover the astronomical history of New Mexico as we visit Los Alamos, >site of the famous Manhattan Project, Soccoro's Very Large Array >Telescopes, White Sands Missile Range, Apache Point and Sacramento Peak >Observatories, and Roswell's UFO Museum! 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It has a name, but that belies the fact that >nobody really knows what dark energy is. > >In six years it has become one of the central and >apparently unavoidable features of the cosmos, the surprise >question mark at the top of everybody's list, undermining >what physicists presumed they understood about space, time, >gravity and the future of the universe. > >"In five years we've gone from saying it looks like a >mistake to something that everyone is claiming evidence >for," said Dr. Robert Kirshner of the Harvard-Smithsonian >Center for Astrophysics, who was part of the original >discovery. > >Dr. Saul Perlmutter, a physicist from the Lawrence Berkeley >Laboratory who was a leader of one of the 1998 teams, said >he thought astronomers had even gotten comfortable with the >idea - "or as comfortable as you can be with something as >bizarre as dark energy." > >Now, armies of astronomers are fanning out into the night, >enlisting telescopes, large and small, from Chile to Hawaii >to Arizona to outer space, in a quest to take the measure >of dark energy by tracing the history of the universe with >unprecedented precision. > >Some of them are following the trail blazed by the first >two groups six years ago, searching out a kind of exploding >star known as Type 1a the supernova. Those stars serve as >markers in space, enabling scientists to plumb the size of >the universe and how it grew over time. Where the first >groups based their conclusions on observing a few dozen >supernovas, the new efforts intend to harvest hundreds or >thousands of them. > >Others are seeking to gain leverage by investigating how >the antigravitational force of dark energy has retarded the >growth of conglomerations of matter like galaxies. In one >ambitious project, a team led by Dr. John Carlstrom of the >University of Chicago is building an array of radio >telescopes at the South Pole to count and study clusters of >galaxies deep in space-time. Others are already probing the >internal dynamics of galaxies by the thousands, or building >giant cameras that use the light-bending powers of gravity >itself as lenses to map invisible dark matter in space and >compile a growth chart of cosmic structures. > >Dr. Anthony Tyson, now at Bell Laboratories, is head of a >project to build a "dark matter telescope" known as the >Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. "High energy physicists >have been marching into our project," he said. "This is not >just another telescope. It's a physics experiment, like a >particle accelerator." > >After all, the fate of the universe is at stake. If the >dark energy is virulent enough, then that fate "is quite >fantastic and completely different than the possibilities >previously discussed," Dr. Caldwell and his colleagues >wrote last year. > >The Search for One Number > >The idea of an antigravitational force pervading the cosmos >does sound like science fiction, but theorists have long >known that certain energy fields would exert negative >pressure that would in turn, according to Einstein's >equations, produce negative gravity. Indeed, some kind of >brief and violent antigravitational boost, called >inflation, is thought by theorists to have fueled the Big >Bang. > >As they try to figure out how this strange behavior could >be happening to the universe today, astronomers say the >ultimate prize from all the new observing projects could be >as simple as a single number. > >That number, known as w, is the ratio between the pressure >and density of dark energy. Knowing this number and how it >changes with time - if it does - might help scientists pick >through different explanations of dark energy and thus the >future of the universe - "whether it's gonna lead to a Big >Rip, a Big Collapse or just a Big Fizzle," as Dr. Adam >Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore >put it in an e-mail message. > >One possible explanation for dark energy, perhaps the >sentimental favorite among astronomers, is a force known as >the cosmological constant, caused by the energy residing in >empty space. It was first postulated back by Einstein in >1917. A universe under its influence would accelerate >forever. > >While the density of energy in space would remain the same >over the eons, as the universe grows there would be more >space and thus more repulsion. Within a few billion years, >most galaxies would be moving away from our own faster than >the speed of light and so would disappear from the sky; the >edge of the observable universe would shrink around our >descendants like a black hole. > >But attempts to calculate the cosmological constant using >the most high-powered modern theories of gravity and >particle physics result in numbers 1060 times as great as >the dark energy astronomers have observed - big enough, in >fact, to have blown the universe apart in the first second, >long before even atoms had time for form. Theorists admit >they are at a loss. Perhaps, some of them now say, >Einstein's theory of gravity, the general theory of >relativity, needs to be modified. > >Another possibility comes from string theory, the putative >theory of everything, which allows that space could be >laced with other energy fields, associated with particles >or forces as yet undiscovered. Those fields, collectively >called quintessence, could have an antigravity effect. >Quintessence could change with time - for example, getting >weaker and eventually disappearing as the universe expanded >and diluted the field - or could even change from a >repulsive force to an attractive one, which could set off a >big crunch. > >Recently, in a variation on the quintessence idea, Dr. >Leonard Parker of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee >and various colleagues, including Dr. Caldwell, have >suggested that the field associated with some unknown very >light particle could get tangled up with gravity and cause >the universe to accelerate. That would alter Einstein's >equations, said Dr. Caldwell. He added, "Our calculations >show, however, that galaxies reside in a bubble of >old-fashioned Einstein gravity, whereas gravity has changed >outside and between galaxies." > >A Weird Idea Gets Weirder > >But the strangest notion is what Dr. Caldwell has called >phantom energy, the dark energy that could lead to the Big >Rip. > >"It's weird negative pressure," said Dr. Lawrence M. >Krauss, an astrophysicist at Case Western Reserve >University in Cleveland. > >While the density of the energy in Einstein's cosmological >constant stays the same as the universe expands, the >density of phantom energy would go up and up, eventually >becoming infinite. Such would be the case if the parameter >w turned out to be less than minus 1, say physicists, who >admit they are stunned by the possibility and until >recently simply refused to consider it. > >"It crosses a boundary of good taste," Dr. Caldwell said, >calling phantom energy "bad news stuff." Phantom energy >violates physicists' intuitions about how the universe >should behave. A chunk of it could be used to prop open >wormholes in space and time - and thus create time >machines, for example. > >"It could lead to such bizarre effects as negative kinetic >energy," Dr. Krauss said. As a result, objects like atoms >would be able to lose energy by speeding up. > >Nevertheless, a recent analysis by Dr. Caldwell and his >Dartmouth colleague Dr. Michael Doran of the supernova >measurements to date, combined with other cosmological >data, suggest that w could lie anywhere from minus 0.8 to >minus 1.25, leaving open the possibility of phantom energy. >The cosmological constant would give a value of minus 1.0, >and anything higher would be a sign of quintessence. > >Dr. Kirshner said phantom energy had been dismissed as "too >strange" when his group was doing calculations of dark >energy back in 1998. In retrospect, he said, that was not >the right thing to do. > >"It sounds wacky," he said, referring to phantom energy, >"but I think we're in a situation where we're going to need >a really new idea. We're in trouble; the way out is going >to be new imaginative things. It might be our ideas are not >wild enough, they don't question fundamentals enough." > >Dr. Chris Pritchet of the University of Victoria, who is >part of a collaboration using the Canada-France-Hawaii >telescope on Mauna Kea to search for supernovas, said, "In >many ways phantom energy is unphysical, but we're not >ruling it out." > >Counting Down to the Big Rip > >This version of doomsday would start slowly. Then, billions >of years from now, as phantom energy increased its push and >the cosmic expansion accelerated, more and more galaxies >would start to disappear from the sky as their speeds >reached the speed of light. > >But things would not stop there. Some billions of years >from now, depending on the exact value of w, the phantom >force from the phantom energy will be enough to overcome >gravity and break up clusters of galaxies. That will happen >about a billion years before the Big Rip itself. > >After that the apocalypse speeds up. About 900 million >years later, about 60 million years before the end, our own >Milky Way galaxy will be torn apart. Three months before >the rip, the solar system will fly apart. The Earth will >explode when there is half an hour left on the cosmic >clock. > >The last item on Dr. Caldwell's doomsday agenda is the >dissolution of atoms, 10-19, a tenth of a billionth of a >billionth of a second before the Big Rip ends everything. > >"After the rip is like before the Big Bang," Dr. Caldwell >said. "General relativity says: "The end. Time can't >evolve." > >The cosmos probably still has a lot of life in it, >according to recent calculations by Dr. Krauss. Based on >the current age of the universe, some 14 billion years, and >other data, w cannot be less than about minus 1.2, he said, >putting the Big Rip about 55 billion years in the future. > >"It can't be very phantom," Dr. Krauss said. > >The dark >energy surveys now under way hope to be able to measure w >to an accuracy of 5 percent, but even if that can be done, >it may not be sufficient to eliminate the nightmare of >phantom energy. > >"It's hard to measure anything in astronomy to a few >percent," said Dr. Sandra Faber of the University of >California at Santa Cruz, who directs one of the dark >energy surveys. Variations in the atmosphere and gaps in >astronomers' understanding of supernova explosions add >uncertainty to the dark energy measurements. > >As a result some astronomers fear that the results may >leave us on the razor's edge unable to decide between a >cosmological constant and the other possibilities - >quintessence or a Big Rip. Cosmologists could then be stuck >with a "standard model" of the universe that fits all the >data, but which they have no hope of understanding. > >If the parameter w comes out to be something other than >minus 1, Dr. Krauss said, it will at least give some >direction to physicists. > >One encouraging sign - "a tantalizing bit of hope," in Dr. >Krauss's words - that the data will distinguish between a >cosmological constant and the other possibilities came last >fall when Dr. Riess, of Baltimore, reported, based on new >observations of distant supernovas, that the "cosmic jerk" >when dark energy took over the universe happened only five >billion years ago. > >In the standard cosmological constant model, said Dr. >Riess, the turnaround should have come one or two billion >years earlier. > >Dr. Tyson was more sanguine. "Dark energy is crazy, right?" >he said. "It's going to be exciting no matter what we >find." > >Dark Future for Dark Energy? > >The work of the dark energy hunters has been complicated by >the impending loss of the Hubble Space Telescope, which can >see far enough out in space and time to measure how and if >the dark energy parameter w is changing over the eons. > >Last month, citing safety, NASA canceled all future shuttle >maintenance missions to the telescope, dooming it to die in >orbit, probably within three years, according to >astronomers. "The Hubble shutdown will slow us all down," >Dr. Perlmutter said. > >At the same time, as a result of the agency's >presidentially ordered shift toward the Moon and Mars, >plans for a special satellite that was to have been jointly >sponsored by NASA and the Department of Energy have at >least temporarily disappeared from NASA's five-year budget >plan. > >Dr. Perlmutter, who has devoted much of his time in the >last six years to the proposed satellite experiment, said >he hoped that a way would be found to keep the project on >track to be launched in the next decade. > >"When you have the most exciting scientific problem of the >day, you don't want to wait around," he said. > >http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/17/science/space/17DARK.html?ex=1078023766&ei=1&en=ba66bb02e261b870 > > _________________________________________________________________ Say “good-bye” to spam, viruses and pop-ups with MSN Premium -- free trial offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200359ave/direct/01/ From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Feb 19 09:53:13 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1JHrBOr009028; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:53:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id MAA16211 for public-list; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:37:48 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f14.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.14]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16207; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:37:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:37:11 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.41 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:37:11 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.41] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: FW: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:37:11 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Feb 2004 17:37:11.0382 (UTC) FILETIME=[013C8760:01C3F70F] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >From: Space Environment Center >To: advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov >Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:00:11 GMT > >Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center >Boulder, Colorado, USA > >SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #04- 7 >2004 February 17 at 01:42 p.m. MST (2004 February 17 2042 UTC) > >**** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** > >Summary For February 9-15 >Space weather during the past week briefly reached moderate levels. >Category G1 (minor) and G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm levels were >observed on February 11th due to the onset of high speed solar wind >from a coronal hole on the Sun. Category G1 geomagnetic storms were >also observed on February 12th and 15th due to the same coronal hole. >For a list of adverse system effects related to space weather storms, >please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales. > >Outlook For February 18-24 >Space weather for the next week may reach minor levels. Category G1 >(minor) geomagnetic storms are expected during the latter half of the >period due to high speed solar wind from a coronal hole on the sun. > >For current space weather conditions please refer to: >http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/ >http://www.sec.noaa.gov/alerts/ > >Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, >USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services >and other observatories, universities, and institutions. 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Click here for Special Offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Feb 19 21:45:16 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1K5jCOr004212; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id AAA01089 for public-list; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:31:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f17.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.17]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01085; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:31:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:31:24 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.62 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:31:24 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.62] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org Subject: SETI public: Some of the original answers to Fermi's Question Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:31:24 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2004 05:31:24.0398 (UTC) FILETIME=[C79FD8E0:01C3F772] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk >ENRICO FERMI: "WHERE IS EVERYBODY?" > >According to an often repeated anecdote, physicist Enrico Fermi >once wondered aloud about the existence of extraterrestrial >beings and why they had not shown up on Earth: "Where is >everybody?" > >In another Los Alamos report that was withdrawn from online >public access, Los Alamos scientist Eric M. Jones tracked down >the three colleagues with whom Fermi discussed the matter -- >Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski -- and >obtained their written recollections of the 1950 conversation. > >See "'Where is Everybody?': An Account of Fermi's Question," Los >Alamos National Laboratory report number LA-10311-MS, March >1985 (17 pages, 1 MB PDF file): > > http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/la-10311-ms.pdf > _________________________________________________________________ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage – 4 plans to choose from! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ From owner-public@setileague.org Thu Feb 19 22:44:27 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1K6iPOr011467; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:44:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id BAA01786 for public-list; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:00:54 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from smtp.enter.net (smtp.enter.net [216.193.128.24]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01782 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:00:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from OneOne (ironmax-2-19.dialup.enter.net [216.193.164.167]) by smtp.enter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AFE6CCD33; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:02:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <004d01c3f776$e93f7ec0$7b0efea9@OneOne> From: "Ronald C. Blue" To: References: Subject: SETI public: Diamond stars - superconductors - radio senders Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:00:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004A_01C3F74C.F9CF1860" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01C3F74C.F9CF1860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0407.html The newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 = light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is 2,500 = miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which = translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a = one followed by 34 zeros.=20 http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/4/5/133546/3331 Superconductor From Oxygenated Diamond?=20 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eventually a white dwarf will cool down and may become a superconductor. = Assuming this was true then it could be used as a signal amphifier by = ET communications. The white dwarfs should have an iron core which = should be important. Since half of the stars in a galaxy may eventually have these = properties, the electromagnetic field collectively would be = significantly stronger than gravity if they were superconductors and = could possibly reverse the direction of the big bang. Ron Blue ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01C3F74C.F9CF1860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
The newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized = carbon 50=20 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.  It is = 2,500=20 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which = translates to=20 approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by = 34=20 zeros.
 
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Eventually a white dwarf will cool down and may become a superconductor.  = Assuming this=20 was true then it could be used as a signal amphifier by ET=20 communications.  The white dwarfs should have an iron core=20 which should be important.
 
Since half of=20 the stars in a galaxy may eventually have these properties, the=20 electromagnetic field collectively would be significantly stronger than = gravity=20 if they were superconductors and could possibly reverse the direction of = the big=20 bang.
 
Ron Blue
 
------=_NextPart_000_004A_01C3F74C.F9CF1860-- From owner-public@setileague.org Fri Feb 20 08:07:48 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1KG7kOr014837; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id KAA13725 for public-list; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:46:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: seti1.setileague.org: majordom set sender to owner-public@seti1.setileague.org using -f Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-f27.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.27]) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13712; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:46:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:45:35 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.39 by by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:45:34 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.39] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: public@setileague.org Cc: bioastro@setileague.org, europa@klx.com Subject: SETI public: Interstellar Medium May Have Affected Life's Origin on Earth Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:45:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2004 15:45:35.0148 (UTC) FILETIME=[94620EC0:01C3F7C8] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk The Interstellar Medium May Have Affected Life's Origin on Earth http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13680 >"A century ago, when biologists used to talk about the primordial soup from >which all life on Earth came, they >probably never imagined from how far away the ingredients may have come. >Recent findings have the origins of >life reaching far out from what was once considered "the home planet." >Evolution on the early Earth may have >been influenced by some pretty far-out stuff." > > >-- NASA Mars Opportunity Rover Examines Trench as Spirit Prepares to Dig >One >http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13679 > >"By inspecting the sides and floor of a hole it dug on Mars, NASA's >Opportunity rover is finding some things it >did not see beforehand, including round pebbles that are shiny and soil so >fine-grained that the rover's >microscope can't make out individual particles." > > >Evolution caught in the act >http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13681 > _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee when you click here. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 From owner-public@setileague.org Tue Feb 24 14:34:22 2004 Received: from seti1.setileague.org ([204.176.91.10]) by Sentry.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1OMYKOr032130; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by seti1.setileague.org (8.9.3 (PHNE_24419+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) id RAA18685 for public-list; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:17:47 -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 RAA18681; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:17:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:17:09 -0800 Received: from 65.149.176.93 by bay4-dav81.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:17:09 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.149.176.93] X-Originating-Email: [ljk4@msn.com] X-Sender: ljk4@msn.com From: "LARRY KLAES" To: "setipublic" Cc: "BioAstro" Subject: SETI public: Fw: Space-Weather-Outlook Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:17:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0111_01C3FAFA.05EE57E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 9 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.00.0011.1200 Seal-Send-Time: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:17:04 -0500 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2004 22:17:09.0622 (UTC) FILETIME=[F1D54960:01C3FB23] Sender: owner-public@setileague.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0111_01C3FAFA.05EE57E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Space Environment Center=20 To: = advisory-list-send@dawn.sec.noaa.gov=20 Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: Space-Weather-Outlook Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Environment Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #04- 8 2004 February 24 at 9:55 a.m. MST (2004 February 24 1655 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For February 16-22 There was no significant space weather during the past week. For a list of adverse system effects related to space weather storms, please refer to the NOAA Space Weather Scales. Outlook For February 25-March 2 Space weather for the next week may reach minor levels. There is a slight chance of a Category G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm late in the week due to high speed solar wind from a coronal hole on the Sun.=20 For current space weather conditions please refer to: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/=20 http://www.sec.noaa.gov/alerts/ 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. ------=_NextPart_000_0111_01C3FAFA.05EE57E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space = Environment=20 Center
Boulder, Colorado, USA

SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK = #04-=20 8
2004 February 24 at 9:55 a.m. MST (2004 February 24 1655 = UTC)

****=20 SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For February 16-22
There = was no=20 significant space weather during the past week.  For a list
of = adverse=20 system effects related to space weather storms, please refer
to the = NOAA=20 Space Weather Scales.

Outlook For February 25-March 2
Space = weather=20 for the next week may reach minor levels. There is a
slight chance of = a=20 Category G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm late in the
week due to high = speed=20 solar wind from a coronal hole on the Sun.

For current space = weather=20 conditions please refer to:
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Data=20 used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, =
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and other=20 observatories, universities, and institutions. For more
information, = including email services, see SEC's Space Weather
Advisories Web = site http://sec.noaa.gov/advisories or=20 (303) 497-5127.
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Phone: 650/604-1731 or 604-9000 Kathleen.M.Burton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 04-11AR NEWS MEDIA INVITED TO REGISTER FOR NASA ASTROBIOLOGY CONFERENCE News media representatives are invited to register in advance for the=20 third biennial Astrobiology Science Conference, a five-day meeting to=20 be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The=20 meeting will be held March 28 through April 1 in a facility on the=20 historic Moffett Field parade grounds and in the NASA Ames Conference=20 Center (NACC). At the conference, astrobiology experts from around the world will=20 gather to discuss exploration strategies, research targets and=20 current missions planned to further the search for life in the=20 universe. The Astrobiology Science Conference will feature more than 50=20 presentations and five days of poster sessions by pre-eminent=20 researchers and scientists from around the world. "This year's meeting is structured around three big astrobiology=20 questions: Where do we come from? Are we alone? Where are we going=20 - on Earth and beyond?" said conference organizer Lynn Rothschild of=20 NASA Ames. According to Rothschild, each question will be carefully=20 examined through invited plenary lectures and contributed papers and=20 enriched by special sessions on topics such as the ethics of=20 exploration, the place of humans in astrobiology and the astrobiology=20 drilling program. With a session by top NASA and European Space Agency officials about=20 what's next in space exploration, a lecture on the latest science=20 results from the Mars Exploration Rover mission by the mission's=20 principal investigator and a special session on new propulsion=20 mechanisms, the astrobiology conference is closely aligned with the=20 president's recently announced space exploration vision, which=20 includes sending robotic and human missions to the moon and Mars. News media planning to attend the conference can register by sending=20 an e-mail by March 23 to = Kathleen.M.Burton@nasa.gov at the = Public=20 Affairs Office at NASA Ames and include: Name Media Organization Attendance Dates Planned Interviews and Topics Number in Party On-site registration also is available at the conference. Non-U.S. news media must bring a valid passport and current U.S. visa=20 and include the following data in their registration email: Passport Number U.S. Visa Number and Expiration Date In keeping with NASA's mission to educate and inform the next=20 generation of explorers, the conference will host "Astrobiology and=20 Humanity," a Sunday afternoon session open to teachers and the public. The session, to be held on March 28 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST, will=20 feature hands-on educational activities and accessible lectures about=20 astrobiology. Abstracts, a meeting agenda and further information about the=20 conference are available at: = http://abscicon.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA Ames Research Center is the location of the central offices of=20 the NASA Astrobiology Institute, an international research=20 consortium. Information about NASA's astrobiology programs may be=20 obtained at: = http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov =20 and =20 http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/ To reach Ames, take the Moffett Field exit off Highway 101 and drive=20 east to the main gate. Members of the media will be required to show=20 a driver's license or other government-issued photo I.D. at the NASA=20 Ames main gate. -end- To receive Ames news releases, send an e-mail with the word=20 "subscribe" in the subject line to:=20 ames-releases-request@lists.arc.nasa.gov. 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----- Original = Message -----=20
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:21 PM
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Kathleen Burton Feb. 24, 2004
NASA Ames Research = Center,=20 Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650/604-1731 or 604-9000
Kathleen.M.Burton@nasa.gov=

RELEASE:=20 04-11AR
NEWS MEDIA INVITED TO REGISTER FOR NASA ASTROBIOLOGY=20 CONFERENCE

News media representatives are invited to register in = advance=20 for the
third biennial Astrobiology Science Conference, a five-day = meeting=20 to
be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The=20
meeting will be held March 28 through April 1 in a facility on the=20
historic Moffett Field parade grounds and in the NASA Ames = Conference=20
Center (NACC).

At the conference, ast