HEADLINES IN BRIEF
October 11, 2002 -------- EXO LIFE - Copper-Based Bloodworm Skeletons Point To New Materials Insights http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-02zo.html Santa Barbara - Oct 11, 2002 - Researchers report in the Oct. 11 "Science" the first detection of a living organism that makes a copper-containing mineral structure as part of its skeleton. The finding is remarkable because the amount of copper detected in the jaw tip of the marine bloodworm would normally be toxic to an organism. -------------------- ASTEROIDS AND COMETS - Understanding The Complexity Of Cometary Worlds http://www.spacedaily.com/news/comet-02k.html Los Angeles - Oct 11, 2002 - Funny things happen on the surfaces of comets. We are 'somewhat' used to pictures of planets, moons and asteroids, but when the NASA/JPL Deep Space 1 spacecraft flew by the comet 19/P Borrelly, the DS1 science team was amazed. ------------ DRAGON SPACE - China's Shenzhou 3 Orbital Vehicle Completes Mission http://www.spacedaily.com/news/021011095725.lyqf3ubh.html Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2002 - The third mission in China's fledgling space programme has been successfully completed and yielded "important breakthroughs" towards sending a human into orbit, state press said Friday. --------- COSMOLOGY - Big Bang Created A Flat Universe, Say Scientists http://www.spacedaily.com/news/021010151839.th4tfcay.html Paris (AFP) Oct 10, 2002 - The cosmos is not just big, it is remarkably flat, according to scientists who say they have carried out the most accurate measurement of the backwash of microwave radiation left from the Big Bang which created the Universe. |
