Word: meteor
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...Shoemaker will finally get his dearest wish. When NASA's Lunar Prospector blasted off toward the moon last week, it carried a small capsule containing an ounce of Gene Shoemaker's ashes. On brass foil surrounding the capsule was an image of Arizona's Meteor Crater, where Shoemaker trained NASA's astronauts. After reaching the moon this week, the spacecraft will ease into a 63-mile-high orbit, peer down and begin a search for minerals, gases and any evidence of water. Then, some 18 months from now, Prospector will crash onto the lunar surface, carrying Gene Shoemaker's ashes...
...always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form of extra-terrestrial...
...ALH84001? Of course you do. It's the chunk of 16-million-year-old Martian rock found in the Antarctic wastes last year over which everyone from NASA to the White House went ga-ga. Until now, prevailing scientific opinion said the worm-like forms on the potato-sized meteor meant there may have once been life on Mars ? little green bacteria, if not little green...
Life on Mars? NASA got us all excited about apparent signs of life found on a Martian meteor. But apparently they weren't bugs, just a feature...
...unusual mission, to try to simulate the conditions that caused TWA Flight 800 to explode last summer. According to National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall, a series of 10 such test flights will focus on a number of possibilities, ranging from mechanical failure to the remote possibility a meteor sparked the explosion. Hall told CNN Sunday: "A couple of those will try to replicate as closely as possible TWA 800. We'll be trying to look at the temperatures in that tank as they go to the altitude that the explosion occurred at." Investigators believe hot weather and heavily...