News Archives Astrobiology News 17 August 2006 By Keith Cowing August 17, 2006 Contact: What happens if a Signal is Found, SETI Institute Ammonia-loving archaea win landslide majority, Pennsylvania State University NASA Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap, NASA Proto-Brown Dwarf Disks as Products of Protostellar Disk Encounters, arXiv.org Bayesian Model Selection and Extrasolar Planet Detection, arXiv.org Diamonds and PAHs in the Circumstellar Environment of the Herbig Ae/Be Star Elias 1, arXiv.org Ionisation and dissociation of cometary gaseous organic molecules by solar wind particles I: Formic Acid, arXiv.org The Separation/Period Gap in the Distribution of Extrasolar Planets around Stars with Masses M > = 1.2 Msolar, arXiv.org Extrasolar Planets: A Galactic Perspective, arXiv.org Keith Cowing SpaceRef co-founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber. Follow on Twitter