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CCNet 87/2001 - 16 July 2001
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"From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This [was] the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere have been simply spectacular and beyond expectations. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 consisted of at least 21 discernable fragments with diameters estimated at up to 2 kilometers."
-- JPL/NASA

"On the other hand, life could simply have arrived here in a meteorite from Mars. This idea is "highly plausible -- always supposing there was life on Mars in the first place", says Professor Paul Davies. It's estimated about half a billion Martian rocks suitable for carrying living microbes have reached Earth. Some would have burnt up. But many would have landed safely, says Davies."
-- Deborah Smith, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 2001

"Everyone is so busy discovering planets they don't feel ready to sit down in committees and decide what to call them," laments Helene Dickel, who chairs the nomenclature committee of the International Astronomical Union, the international body that, among other things, assigns official names to celestial bodies. Last August, at an IAU meeting in Manchester, delegates failed to agree on how to name extrasolar planets. The relevant subcommittees are now trying to hammer out an agreement in time for the union's next big meeting, in Sydney in 2003. The planet hunters have proposed a simple solution: giving the planets proper names."
-- Tom Standage, The Guardian, 12 July 2001



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1. HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, EARTHLINGS . . .
Andrew Yee

• PLANETS BY OTHER NAME . . .
Andrew Yee

• COMET LINEAR FLARES AGAIN . . .
Weather News for July, Friday the 13th

• ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TUNGUSKA METEORITE FALL SITE . . .
Ron Baalke

• CANON CITY METEORITE GOES ON DISPLAY . . .
Ron Baalke

• SUCCESSFUL MISSILE INTERCEPT TEST MEANS PLANETARY DEFENSE MIGHT WORK ONE DAY, TOO . . .
Space.com, 15 July 2001

• GREATER SOLAR ACTIVITY MAY BRING U.S. MORE GRAY DAYS . . .
Goddard Space Flight Center, 12 July 2001

• MOON RIVER, FUNKY CHICKENS AND THE MOON HOAX . . .
Matthew Genge

• A SALUTE TO GENE SHOEMAKER AND A RESOLUTION. . .
Andy Smith

. . . .And Finally:

• KUIPER BELT ABSTRACTS . . .
Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter, no. 18, July 2001

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