Re: MOST (was Re: Zodiacal light linked to ancient Martian oceans)

From: Kieran A. Carroll (kac_at_dynacon.ca)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: 9 Jun 2004 08:51:58 -0700

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in message news:<Hyx8zC.GGn@spsystems.net>...
> In article <3416b228.0406020948.74722f07@posting.google.com>,
> Abdul Ahad <aa_spaceagent@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >On a slight change of topic (party pooper!)...
> >How is the MOST mission performing as of late, and are we due any
> >science releases in the near future?
>
> ...As for science releases, my understanding is that after some lengthy
> arguments about whether the evidence was really good enough for some of
> the conclusions, the first paper has cleared the editorial hurdles at
> Nature and is in the pipeline for publication. However, it's not "on the
> street" yet, so I can't talk about it (and I actually don't know very much
> about it -- the astronomers are doing all the data analysis and they
> haven't been saying much).

The paper in question will be published in Nature on July 1. The date
was chosen by Nature as being the first anniversary of MOST's launch;
it'll also make for a nice birthday present for Canada, in return for
the CDN$10M that Canada spent on MOST :-) There will be a press
conference associated with this (either at UBC in Vancouver, or at CSA
in Montreal, TBD), on June 30; I'm hoping to be there...

- Kieran A. Carroll
  Dynacon

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