Space Forum / Space Science / April 2007

Caltech New Release
For Immediate Release
April 25, 2007
Watson Lecture: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

-> Quite a few plants on earth have red chlorophyll too.
-> rj
Some animals, including octopi I believe, have respiratory pigments
that are based on different metals than the iron that exists in our

-> Caltech News Release
-> Embargoed until 6:00 AM  PDT, Wednesday, April 11, 2007
-> Some Earth-like Worlds May Have Foliage of Colors Other Than Green,
-> Researchers Say

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Caltech News Release
Embargoed until 6:00 AM  PDT, Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Some Earth-like Worlds May Have Foliage of Colors Other Than Green,
Researchers Say

I guess I’m ok with this. We get a fifth planet, representing asteroids,
the Sun is the Origin (0), and everything else 10 and above is a pluton.
Then there are the plutinos, and apparantly a wholelotta pluterinos.
Jeez, there’s a lot of purple ice out there.

To anyone interested:
I've just been reading a great book clearly aimed at amateur
astronomers. The book is called "The Neptune files". Conceptually the
book is based on the files of two brilliant mathmatic geniuses(now

-> > At least us better-educated Non-Atheists know that the Shroud
-> > of Turin and Sudarium of Oviedo, etc.
-> The better educated don't say "us better-educated..." It is not
-> grammatical.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 27, 2007