February 2006

Welcome to the re-designed SETI Institute E-Newsletter! Thank you for your patience as we changed our look and content. As you'll see, much has been happening at the SETI Institute, and we're glad to be able to share our excitement with you once again.

Best regards,
Barbara Vance, Editor

Scott Hubbard
Joins the SETI Institute

The SETI Institute welcomes G. Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, as the new holder of the Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe.
 
FAQtoids

 

What is the ATA?

The Allen Telescope Array is an arrangement of individual antennas whose receiving area can be joined together to create a telescope larger than that at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It can be simultaneously used for both SETI and cutting-edge radio astronomy research.

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Research Highlights

Uranus Yields New Surprises
  
Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute and Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center have discovered a secondary ring-moon system around the planet Uranus using the Hubble Space Telescope. Read about this fascinating addition to our knowledge of the solar system by clicking here.

Artificial Meteorite
Peter Jenniskens led a team of scientists and amateur astronomers in observing the descent of the Stardust capsule through the Earth's atmosphere.

Are We Alone? - the SETI Insitute's Science Radio Show 

Are We Alone? is evolving! While the show is in transition, listen to excerpts from brand new shows from the program's webpages or your favorite podcast site.

Sightings 
February 7 & 13
Alien Engineering - History Channel program featuring Seth Shostak and Frank Drake

February 18
AAAS Astrobiology Symposium - Jill Tarter moderates a panel on the habitability of other worlds

March 16, 2006
Seth Shostak speaks at SpaceWorld.  This talk is open to the public.

March 17-19
Contact 23 - Music of the Spheres - Seth Shostak , Douglas Vakoch, and  Andrew Fraknoi are among the speakers at this annual conference on science and the arts.

For more information about these and other events, check out the SETI Institute Events Calendar
Links
Uranus: Meteors:
NinePlanets.org Hypervelocity Reentries (NASA)
Solarviews.com International Meteor Organization

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