Hope Yet The Beagle Will Land Los Angeles - Apr 04, 2002 Over the past week, there have been two important developments connected with plans by NASA and the European Space Agency to land as many as three spacecraft on during 2003-04 Mars window, as Bruce Moomaw details in this latest report for SpaceDaily readers.
New Study Reveals Twice As Many Asteroids As Previously Believed Paris - Apr 5, 2002 Asteroids in our Solar System may be more numerous than previously thought, according to the first systematic search for these objects performed in the infrared, with ESA's Infrared Space Observatory, ISO. The ISO Deep Asteroid Search indicates that there are between 1. 1 million and 1.9 million 'space rocks' larger than 1 kilometre in diameter in the so-called 'main asteroid belt', about twice as many as previously believed.
NASA Spacecraft Finds Comet Has Hot, Dry Surface Pasadena - Apr 06, 2002 Comets are sometimes described as "dirty snowballs," but a close flyby of one by NASA's Deep Space 1 spacecraft last fall detected no frozen water on its surface. Comet Borrelly has plenty of ice beneath its tar-black surface, but any exposed to sunlight has vaporized away, say scientists analyzing data from Deep Space 1.
Asteroid On Possible Impact Course In 2880 Pasadena - Apr 5, 2002 Applying unprecedented refinements to the analysis of celestial hazards, NASA astronomers have identified a potential close encounter with Earth more than eight centuries in the future by an asteroid two-thirds of a mile (one kilometer) wide. What will most likely be a miss, even without preventive measures, will come on March 16, 2880, said Jon Giorgini, an engineer at JPL in Pasadena, Calif. Full Story
ISRO Signs MOU with Indonesia Bangalore - Apr 5, 2002 ISRO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today (April 3, 2002) with the National Institute for Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) of Indonesia for cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
World's Second Space Tourist All Set For ISS Trip Moscow (AFP) Apr 05, 2002 South Africa's Mark Shuttleworth, who bids to become the world's second space tourist, obtained Friday final expert approval for his trip to the International Space Station later this month.
Yuri Plus 41 Sydney - Apr 08, 2002 It's only a year since the world staged the inaugural Yuri's Night celebrations, but so much has changed on Earth, and in space. In 2001, we contemplated a world that had shed most of the tensions associated with the cold war, and watched as several nations assembled the world's first International Space Station.
Atlanta Puts Life In The Spotlight Atlanta - Apr 5, 2002 The evidence is tattered, incomplete, unclear, ancient and sometimes open to conflicting explanations. It includes fossils 3.5 billion years old; the genomes of creatures great and small; biochemical clues to metabolism, cellular structure and genetic copying mechanisms; records of the planet's atmosphere; the laws of physics and the chemical fuel of life: sugars.
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