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From: Benny J Peiser <b.j.peiser@livjm.acdot uk>
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Subject: CCNet, 6 January 2000
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:49:13 -0500 (EST)
CCNet - 002/2000 - 6 January 2000
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(3) NEWS ABOUT TUNGUSKA99 EXPEDITION
Luigi Foschini <foschini@tesre.bo.cnrdot it>=20
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(11) MICROMETEORITES BIGGEST RISK TO ISS?
Michael Paine <mpaine@tpgi.com.au>=20
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(3) NEWS ABOUT TUNGUSKA99 EXPEDITION
>From Luigi Foschini <foschini@tesre.bo.cnrdot it>=20
- - The movie of the Tunguska99 expedition will be transmitted by=20
italian television RAI3 (Geo & Geo, 7 January 2000, h. 16 UT).
- - Public conference by Giuseppe Longo in Bologna on January 12,=20
2000, h. 16 UT. Here is an abstract (in italian):
COLLOQUIO della FACOLTA' di SCIENZE
12 GENNAIO 2000
presso il Dipartimento di Chimica - ore 17
Prof. Giuseppe Longo (Dipartimento di Fisica)
"In Tunguska alla ricerca del meteorite scomparso"
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SOMMARIO
Una spedizione scientifica italiana si e' recata in Tunguska=20
(Siberia Centrale) per raccogliere dati sperimentali sul corpo=20
cosmico, la cui esplosione (30 giugno 1908) devasto' un'enorme=20
regione della foresta siberiana abbattendo oltre 80 milioni di=20
alberi ed emettendo un'energia equivalente a mille bombe di=20
Hiroshima. Nel seminario saranno illustrati gli scopi, le=20
difficolta' e i risultati preliminari della spedizione.=20
More informations:
http://www-th.bo.infndot it/tunguska/
For the Tunguska99 Press Office:
Luigi Foschini (mailto:foschini@tesre.bo.cnrdot it)
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(11) MICROMETEORITES BIGGEST RISK TO ISS?
>From Michael Paine <mpaine@tpgi.com.au>=20
Dear Benny,
New Scientist has an article about the risk to astronauts involved=20
with the International Space Station:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991225/newsstory9.html
"...the chances of losing the entire station in any 8-month period=20
lie between 1 in 200 and 1 in 500--meaning there's a 5 to 10 per=20
cent chance of disaster over 15 years. But its calculations suggest=20
that, if this happens, there is a 93 per cent probability that a=20
micrometeorite impact will be the cause. Futron assumes just a 2 per=20
cent chance that fires, explosions or collisions between spacecraft=20
would be to blame."
Michael Paine
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