Universe Today - October 1, 1999

Universe Today - October 1, 1999

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October 2nd, 1999 - Issue #105
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Space News from SpaceDaily.com for today

Making Sure Love Is Never Lost
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/gps-99x.html

A Universe Of Planets Awaits
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/extrasolar-99t.html

ESA Mercury Mission Named BepiColombo
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/mercury-99d.html

Space-Age Probe Helping Cancer Doctors
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/spacemedicine-99b.html

ISS Gets A Backbone
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/iss-99n.html

First Pizza Party in Space
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/iss-99m.html

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-- UNIVERSE TODAY STORY SUMMARY --

* Mars Orbiter Loss Caused by Bad Math
* Pizza Hut Sponsors Rocket Launch
* Uranus and Neptune May Form Diamonds
* Europa Discovered to Contain Sulphuric Acid


MARS ORBITER LOSS CAUSED BY BAD MATH
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It appears that the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which disappeared
from NASA's instruments while making a dangerous flyby of the Red Planet,
was likely caused by a simple miscalculation. A contractor provided
measurements in English while the Orbiter team was assuming they
were metric.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/marsclimate990930.html
http://www.astronomynow.com/mars/mco/990930units/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_462000/462264.stm
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/100199/mars.sml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/310187.asp
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/astronomy/news/1999/solarsys/990930.html
http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/09/30b.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/22031.html


PIZZA HUT SPONSORS ROCKET LAUNCH
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Nearly broke, Russian space officials are looking for any way to offset
the costs to develop their components of the International Space Station.
Pizza Hut has agreed to pay approximately $1.25 million to have their logo
slapped on the side of a Russian Proton rocket which will carry the
living quarters for the space station.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_463000/463041.stm
http://cnn.com/US/9909/30/pizza.in.space.ap/index.html
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/station/stories/1999/990930.html
http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/09/30a.html


URANUS AND NEPTUNE MAY FORM DIAMONDS
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Recent laboratory experiments carried out at Berkeley have tried to
mimic the effects caused by the enormous pressures on Uranus and Neptune.
By subjecting methane - a common element in the planets' atmospheres - to
100,000-500,000 times the pressure on Earth, some of the methane
turned into diamond.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/093099/uranus_neptune.sml


EUROPA DISCOVERED TO CONTAIN SULPHURIC ACID
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Data returned by the Galileo spacecraft has shown that Europa's surface
contains sulphuric acid. Ironically, this substance, also found in car
batteries, may actually improve the chances of finding life on the moon.
The acid could serve as an energy source for life on the frigid world.

http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/09/30c.html

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