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----- Original Message ----- From: Astrobiology Magazine To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:33 AM Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine Searching for Scarce Life http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1167.html Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. So dry that, in some regions, not even bacteria can survive. That makes it a perfect place to test out Zo�, a prototype rover designed to detect life's faintest traces. Whipple's Flying Sandbank http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1166.html The most cited astronomy papers date back to the early fifties, when astronomer Fred Whipple proposed that comets were dirty snowballs. His legacy will live long beyond the passing of America's oldest astronomer. Neptune-Class Worlds Found http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1165.html While striving to find ever smaller, more rocky worlds, planet hunters have moved from discovering not just Jupiter-class planets outside our solar system. Now astronomers have found two new Neptune-class planets on their road to pinpointing a new Earth-like system. Choices in The Quantum Universe http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1164.html Asking questions about the quantum universe is a fool's game: one cannot get a single answer, only a probability. A committee of particle physicists bounced this concept around a table to pose the top nine questions, and a probable path to answering them. Wednesday, September 01 ------------------------ For more astrobiology news, visit http://www.astrobio.net To unsubscribe, send subject UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED]