BBC: Plan to melt through Europa's ice

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Schnitzius
A very nice article about building a probe to melt through Europa's ice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3548139.stm __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepi

Re: Report: large KBO discovered

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Turner
I think this discovery has the potential to ignite investigations that rewrite the textbooks on the early solar system, in particular the capture hypothesis for moons. Capture has been considered unlikely because of the supposed rarity of close encounters, because of the relatively small size of