From: Larry Klaes (lklaes@bbn.com)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 17:19:58 MST
From: "SETIWEB NEWS" <subscribe@setiweb.org>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@bbn.com;>
Subject: Issue 1
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:09:12 -0800
Welcome To SETIWEB NEWS
A newsletter dedicated to those with an interested in the
Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
and where humanity fits into the scheme of things.
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SETIWEB NEWS is an extension of SETIWEB.ORG
http://setiweb.org
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Issue 1 - November 4, 1999
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My personal greeting:
Greetings all, I come in peace. Hi, my name is Tony. I have
agreed to do this newsletter in the hopes of expanding the outreach of
SETIWEB.ORG, and reaching others that may not have the time to surf
message boards or web sites in search of relevant information. I
hope to issue this newsletter on a regular basis, every two weeks,
sooner if there is breaking news, or later if my non-cyber life
dictates. Subscription info is available below. This is my first
attempt at anything of this nature, so please bear with me.
Suggestions are welcome.
I intend to keep the scope of SETIWEB NEWS fairly broad.
Matters directly related to "the search", changes at SETIWEB.ORG,
space science and other matters I feel fit, will be mentioned. UFOology
is NOT suited for this forum. I will post links to interesting news
articles and mention current discussions of interest at various forums.
If you have anything you would like to submit, please let me know,
and feel free to forward this to your friends. Thank you very much
for subscribing, and happy hunting!
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New stuff at SETIWEB:
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If you haven't been there lately, check out the new pull-down menus.
Click on a menu item, and the next page you see will have a pull down
menu where you can find lots of info.
Menus include:
News,Events,SETILinks,Discussions,Clubs,Books,S@H Tips
Seti@home News:
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October 22, 1999 SETI@home has now accumulated more than 100,000
years of computer time, more than any other computing project in history!
We have recorded over 85 million "candidate signals" (spikes and Gaussians)
in our database, and we're preparing to start the second phase of analysis,
which will search these candidates looking for "repeat events".
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/news.html
My News Picks:
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* Life Beyond Earth
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*A two-hour special airing on PBS Wednesday, November 10, 1999*
* 8:00 p.m. ET -check your local listings-
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* Mark Your Calendar!
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Galileo:
New Galileo images reveal Hawaiian-style volcano on Io.
A volcanic crater several times larger than one found at
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been photographed on Jupiter's moon
Io during a close flyby performed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/io
mission homepage: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov .
Mars Global Surveyor:
Images of solar eclipse on Mars
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/11_1_99_phobos/index.html
Mars Polar Lander Status:
October 30, 1999
NASA's Mars Polar Lander spacecraft successfully fired its
thrusters for 12 seconds this morning to fine-tune its flight path for
arrival at the Martian south pole on December 3.
Flight controllers said the spacecraft performed as planned and
that preliminary data show the desired trajectory change was achieved.
The thruster firing began at 10:28 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Previous
thruster firings were accomplished on January 21, March 15, and
Sept. 1. The next thruster firing is scheduled for November 30.
The landing site is located at 76 degrees south latitude and 195
degrees west longitude, near the northern edge of the layered terrain
in the vicinity of the Martian south pole. The lander is now about 14.3
million kilometers (about 8.9 million miles) from Mars, traveling at a
speed of 4.8 kilometers per second (about 10,700 miles per hour)
relative to Mars. The spacecraft is about 228 million kilometers
(about 142 million miles) from Earth, and has traveled along an arcing
flight path of about 690 million kilometers (about 429 million miles)
through space since launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan 3, 1999.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews/
NASA Task Force to Determine Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life:
http://www.space.com/news/biomarkers_mars_991027.html
Hubble:
Hubble homes in on black hole - amazing photos!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_491000/491683.stm
Hubble shows galaxies in a tug-of-war:
http://explorezone.com/archives/99_11/04_grazing_galaxies.htm
Hubble repair mission delayed again do to Discovery engine problem:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/03/shuttle.engine.ap/index.html
Chandra:
An image of Centaurus A captured by the Chandra X-ray telescope
reveals what may be the after-effects of a collision between galaxies
several hundred million years ago.
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9910/26/chandra.centaurus/index.html
A planetary nebula in the making:
http://www.astronomynow.com/breaking/9910/19hubble/
Eggs-ackly what are those things?
Astronomers are planning to build the worlds largest radio telescope,
but it looks quite un-conventional:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473559.stm
New clues to mysterious Moon flashes:
http://www.explorezone.com/archives/99_10/21_moon_mystery.htm
Discussions & Forums:
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http://www.delphi.com/setib/
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/seti
http://www.datania.com/seti/
http://www.sixdegrees.com/groups/grouphome.asp?GroupID=16473
http://www.onelist.com/community/setiathome
Newsgroup: sci.astro.seti
Newsgroup: alt.sci.seti
Articles:
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A Brief History of SETI:
http://www.setileague.org/general/history.htm
Seti Searches Today:
http://www.skypub.com/news/special/seti_today.html
Links:
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S@H news: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/news.html
S@H Technical news: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.html
JPL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.stsci.edu/
Chanrda X-Ray Telescope: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
The Planetary Society: http://www.planetary.org/
The Seti Institute: http://www.seti-inst.edu/
The Seti League: http://seti1.setileague.org/
Optical Seti: http://www.coseti.org/
S@H stats: http://www.roving-mouse.com/setiathome/
Warp Speed When? http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
Add-on software for S@H
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http://zap.to/jsetitracker
http://www.sackheads.org/setiherder/
http://members.home.net/mloukko/SETI.html
FAQ'S:
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http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html
http://bitenbyte.com/seti/setifaq.html
The Drake Equation:
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http://www.seti-inst.edu/science/drake-bg.html
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