The abstracts for the coming Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting of the AGU are now on line: www.agu.org/meetings/wp02top.html -- although most space-related ones involve fields and particles stuff that bores the hell out of me personally. The one major exception is Yock's piece in the "Extrasolar Planets" abstracts listing the results of 3 attempts to detect such planets using gravitational microlensing -- one of which turned up evidence for an Earth-mass planet about 2 AU from its sun, which if confirmed would be the first Earth-size planet found around another star (other than a pulsar). The "GEST" Discovery mission -- which would use gravitational microlensing to get a statistical count of planets of various sizes -- may yet prove to be worthwhile, since it can detect planets at much greater range from their sun than Kepler can. Kepler, however, was apparently found more technoigically plausible, at least for now. On the other hand -- having at long last finished burning approximately 4800 of my printed-out documents onto CD-ROM -- I've finally had a chance to take a good look at all the abstracts I printed out from the LPSC meeting this year, and there is some VERY interesting stuff there in a wide variety of different areas, including some fascinating Europa stuff. The only question in my mind is whether I should just list it here, or try and squeeze a SpaceDaily article out of it. More later. > == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
