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[LARRY KLAES]

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Tugboat as Lifeboat?http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1295.htmlAmong 
the proposals for diverting an asteroid collision with Earth, one involves 
gently pushing the incoming rock over the course of a year. This low-thrust 
solution has its challenges since at various stages of that perilous year, if it 
ever came, locations on Earth would naturally see human influences as they 
became the bullseye. Birds, Bees and Cool Shadeshttp://www.astrobio.net/news/article1294.htmlWhen 
the sky is bright, few may realize it is also polarized. Few humans without 
sunglasses, that is. Birds and insects may locate their navigational tiepoints 
using the sun's polarization and their own built-in shades.Titan 
Oozinghttp://www.astrobio.net/news/article1293.htmlRadar 
images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, can reveal surface roughness at the 
scale of a human hand. But the smoothness and flow patterns observed during the 
recent Cassini flyby may more closely resemble cryovolcanism, or flowing molten 
ice. Surfing Saturn's Wave Actionhttp://www.astrobio.net/news/article1292.htmlSaturn 
looks like anything but a quiet place when viewed in ultraviolet. The giant 
planet features wayward moons, colliding meteoroids, rippling rings and 
flickering auroras.Wednesday, November 10 
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The Cosmos 1 Solar Sail mission set for launch on March 1, 2005

[LARRY KLAES]

Yesterday, on what would have been Carl Sagan's 70th birthday, they started 
the countdown
for the launch date of the Cosmos 1 solar sail mission. You can read 
about this in the next 
two items:

http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/ss_launch_set_1109.html


* Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Ready for Flight

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/cosmos-1_update_041109.htmlA 
clicking countdown clock has started, leading to a liftoff of the orbital 
mission of Cosmos 1 -- billed as the world's first solar sail 
spacecraft.
For some background on the mission from 2003:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10214315BRD=1395PAG=461dept_id=216620rfi=6


Larry