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Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which made the announcement Wednesday, have said that the particles recently detected around the star Vega--one of the sky's brightest--could range in size anywhere from buckshot pellets to asteroids or large planets...
Despite the lack of a visual siting, however, the detection has gained unusual attention because it represents the first positive astronomical measurement of solid material in deep space larger than dust grains or gas partices, which are unable to sustain the type of orbital activity now suspected around Vega...
...available evidence may suggest for or against the presence of a major planetary system around Vega, and is intriguing in its own right. But the issue as to whether there are planets is not easily resolved," said Professor of Astronomy Alastair G. W. Cameron...
...There's a large list of eminent astronomers who are now kicking themselves because they had the information and never followed up," said Beichman, who explained that while Vega is a star commonly used by astronomers as a sort of "space lighthouse" for calibrating visual instruments, data from countless other stars--about 250,000 in JPL's computers alone--has been gathered for various purposes other than the type of infrared examination that led to the latest find...
...linking up with Toyota, GM is making a virtue of necessity. Like other U.S. manufacturers, it has not been able to solve the manufacturing and financial equations of small cars. Design problems helped doom the Corvair in the 1960s and the Vega in the 1970s. The rear-wheel-drive Chevette, introduced in 1975, is obsolete and overdue for replacement. As a stopgap, GM has been planning to import 200,000 subcompacts made by Isuzu starting next year, and there are tentative plans to bring in up to 80,000 smaller minicars from Suzuki Motor Co. So far, the giant automaker...