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How can you tell if a guy likes you or is interested? You noticed him when you were standing and talking with a friend. You think he noticed you, but maybe it was your imagination or just wishful thinking. He looked at you at about the same time you saw him. Your eyes met for just a few seconds, and then you looked away. When you looked back up, he was talking with some other people. Was he watching you as you mingled? Or were you making that up? How can you tell if a guy likes you? Why are guys so hard to read?

Here are five signs that he is interested in you too. If any of the following happens, he is probably trying to get close enough to ask you out:

1. He tells someone

Is he interested? He likes you if he tells a mutual friend that he wants to know more about you, or he asks other people who you are and where you’re from. He is trying to act like he’s “just asking” but his questions indicate more than a casual interest. And when he tells someone that he finds you attractive, he probably knows that it will get back to you. He’s hoping it does.

2. The look

He gives you a look that betrays his calm exterior. Even though he is across the room, “that look” he has says it all. It is sweeping, from your head to your toes, and then his eyes linger on yours. You think you notice the beginning of a tentative smile.

3. The conversation

Does he like you? When he manages to get close enough to you, to ask you questions, he is interested. He appears to be listening and responds to what you say. He’s moving in to the ultimate question, which is: “Are you seeing anyone.” He would only ask this question if he wanted to date you, and he hopes the answer is “No.” Never ever wear a ring in public. When a guy is across the room, he cannot tell which finger it is on and he may assume incorrectly that you are taken. If he doesn’t ask you the question of whether or not you are attached, he may ask someone whom you both know.

4. He appears unexpectedly

He likes you a lot if he shows up out of nowhere. He can only do that if he has been asking people about your schedule, or he has been paying attention to where you are going and at what time. His face may turn red when he sees you. A sudden, “Oh, hi,” is his way of saying, “I don’t want to seem obvious, but I am interested in you.” If you feel the same way, do not act shy. Stop and talk to him.

5. EVERYONE likes you

Is he interested? When you are well liked and a happy person, why wouldn’t he like you? Of course he does. If you don’t have a great life, however, now is your time to start working on one. Take a look at your career possibilities, body image, future, plans, and resources. You may be naturally talented at something, but it won’t matter unless you work on your strengths. Misused or unused talents fade away. School and training do not.

These are the five signs that he is interested and he is on the verge of asking you out. Make it easy for him and be friendly. This is where relationships begin.

Do you want to know more secrets about how to attract men? Do you know how to dress, what to say, what to do, and the body language to use when you go out? Do you know the 5 steps to take to meet any guy anywhere? Read on to discover all the secrets to having all the dates you want in How To Attract Men: Secrets Every Woman Should Know

There are a number of things in life that can cause a person to lose weight. Many causes relate to a number of different physical health problems, such as types of terminal illness or sicknesses that are not always easily treated, or mental health problems, such as depression or stress. While the weight loss that is caused by physical health problems are easy enough to figure out and even treat, the weight loss that is due to mental health problems can be more difficult to treat because there is no physical reason for the individual to be losing weight.

People suffering from depression can often have a change in appetite that will either greatly increase their weight or more commonly cause a loss in appetite, which often causes a loss in weight. Intense anxiety, however, more often causes a significant loss of appetite in a person, which can then cause them to lose a lot of weight. Anxiety is a stress on the body, especially when a person finds that they are more anxious about life than they should be. When most people are anxious or worried, they can have a difficult time in thinking of anything else other than about what makes them feel anxious or worried. The appeal of food goes away and they can’t bring themselves to eat because they are too tense to eat. They are distracted and their health becomes something that is no longer a great concern. Being this tense and not eating proper meals, or miss eating altogether, can be quite detrimental to a person’s health. If this is allowed to go on for too long, some people will lose so much weight that they will begin to suffer other medical problems caused by the lack of proper nourishment.

There are many reasons as to why someone would become so anxious about something, much in the same way that depression can be a result of many different things; it depends on the person, their personality, what they have been through, their genetics and what their life is like. Any of these factors can easily be what is contributing to a person’s anxiety and to their loss of appetite. Anyone who is so anxious and worried that they have lost their appetite to the point where they are beginning to lose weight should seriously consider contacting a therapist. Online therapy is becoming more popular for people to use these days, especially people who worry about other people finding out that they are seeing a therapist. The online therapist can communicate with the patient and find out why the patient is so distressed that their interest in food is gone. When the issue is found, the online therapist or counselor can then work with the patient to help them get over their anxiety and worries. In many cases, the therapist is successful in helping the patient deal with what is bothering them, and the patient begins to have more of an appetite as their issues are dealt with.

Everybody wants to be happy. So they search for happiness here and there. Today my friend Razib Uddin shares a graphics with me where the artist draws a guided tour for happiness seekers. If you want to be happy for a while, I think this guide will very helpful for you.

Since defragging the disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1. To decrease a system’s boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software — the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine — and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.
2. If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.
3. Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you’re not sure, here’s how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it’s important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.
4. Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a “searchable keyword index.” As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system. The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP’s built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for. Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you’re a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.Here’s how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck “Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching.” Next, apply changes to “C: subfolders and files,” and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as “Access is denied”), click the Ignore All button.
5. Update the PC’s video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.
6. Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can “prefetch” portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That’s fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.
7. Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here’s how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button — it’s just to the right of the Capacity pie graph — and delete all temporary files.
8. In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to “DMA if available” for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.
9. Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support “cable select,” the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.
10. Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removing Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.
11. Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here’s how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don’t want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.
12. Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.
13. Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here’s how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer — only its responsiveness.
14. If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.
15. Visit Microsoft’s Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.
16. Update the customer’s anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.
17. Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts — that is, anything over 500 — will noticeably tax the system.
18. Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP’s NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called “D drive.” You’ll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won’t be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won’t need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.
19. Check the system’s RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC’s memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.
20. If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer’s Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you’ll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it’s free.
21. Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.
22. If you’re sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to “Launch folder windows in a separate process,” and enable this option. You’ll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.
23. At least once a year, open the computer’s cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you’re in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. For more information on this leaking-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.

Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers’ computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.

If you have a website and want it to rank well in the search engines, you need to know how to check keyword competition. Good keyword research is important for any website, but we all know that not just any keyword will work since there is always competition.

You need to know what keywords get a decent search volume, and also what the competition looks like. If there are millions of people competing for the same keyword, it will be very hard to rank well, so target the less competitive keywords. Here are the basics of how to check keyword competition:

1. First of all you need to know approximately how many sites are competing for that keyword. Do exact searches in Google by searching for your keyword in quotes “like this?” Using quotes will give you the number of sites that have that exact phrase in their sites, giving you a loose idea of the competition. Some people say to stick with keywords under 5,000 quoted results but I tend to go a little higher if it is a profitable keyword.
2. Do a regular search for the keyword. You want to rank in the top 10 results, right? Yes, so now we will focus on looking at the top 10 competitors, because the other results don’t matter if you can’t beat these websites.
3. You need to check for basic on-page SEO for the top 10 search results. Do they have that exact keyword in their URL and in the title tags? Do they have the keyword used a few times throughout the content on the page? If they are not optimized well, using your keyword effectively may be able to beat them.
4. Check for backlinks. Yahoo SiteExplorer or other free tools let you count the number of backlinks to that specific webpage. If the top results have thousands of links, it may be hard to beat them, but if they only have a few links (less than 100) it should be pretty easy to get more links than them.
5. Check for Google Page Rank. Download the Google PR toolbar or use other free tools to check the PR of the top results. PR 1 sites are easy to beat, but PR 8 sites will be near impossible to beat.

No two people do keyword research the exact same way, so use these factors and decide if your keywords are worth the effort. If the competition looks tough, it may be worth the struggle if the keyword gets a lot of searches and will make you money. But if the keyword is not that profitable, move on to less competitive keywords that will make you money.

Just remember to use these five basic steps, since they are the best way to check keyword competition.

There are also keyword research tools to help make this whole process really easy. Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder are two popular choices that give you a very detailed report with lots of statistics. They have a learning curve, but they are very thorough.

The easiest option is through Wealthy Affiliate though. It is a training site that shows you how to make a website, get traffic, and make money. It is a very detailed site with a lot of training, videos, and tools.

They include an easy to use keyword tool that gives you a list of keywords and shows you their search volumes. And using the factors above (backlinks, SEO, etc) it gives you a simple number showing how easy each keyword will be to rank for. No extra work is necessary, just pick the “easy” keywords and focus on them.



Oracle may be discontinued their service on Oracle Developer Forms and Reports 6i. So they remove Oracle Forms 6i download link from their site.

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Many of them (forum user) submit download link, others tried to download by that link. Some successfully download and others failed.

I have searched a lot and found the mistakes they made.

I successfully download this Developer Suite many times, so I have appeared at this scene. Here is the method I have used to download Oracle Forms 6i:

Oracle verifies your identity when you download anything from Oracle. Many people missed this issue. They try to download and fail because they are not registered with oracle.

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Copy and paste the following link to signed web browser’s address bar and press enter.

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A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals.

The idea of planets has evolved over its history, from the divine wandering stars of antiquity to the earthly objects of the scientific age. The concept has expanded to include worlds not only in the Solar System, but in hundreds of other extrasolar systems. The ambiguities inherent in defining planets have led to much scientific controversy.

In ancient times, astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Ancient Greeks called these lights “planetes asteres” or simply “planētoi”, from which today’s word “planet” was derived.

According to the current definitions of International Astronomical Union (IAU), there are eight planets and five dwarf planets in our Solar System. In increasing distance from the Sun, the planets are:

Planets in our Solar System:
01. Mercury
02. Venus
03. Earth
04. Mars
05. Jupiter
06. Saturn
07. Uranus
08. Neptune

Dwarf Planets in our Solar System:
01. Ceres
02. Pluto
03. Eris
04. Makemake
05. Haumea

The planets in our Solar System can be divided into the following categories based on their composition:

01. Terrestrials
02. Gas Giants
03. Dwarf Planets

Package in Oracle is a schema object that groups logically related PL/SQL types, variables, and subprograms.

Packages usually have two parts, a specification and a body. You can think of the specification as an interface and of the body as a black box. You can even create a package without a body.

Creating simple Package is as easy as 123, but creating complex package required experience and intelligence.

Creating Package Specification in Oracle:

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE example_pakage AS
join_date DATE;
--
PROCEDURE setJoinDate(pEmpNo IN NUMBER, pJoinDate IN DATE);
--
FUNCTION getJoinDate(pEmpNo IN NUMBER) RETURN DATE;
END;

Creating Package Body in Oracle:

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY example_pakage AS
PROCEDURE setJoinDate(pEmpNo IN NUMBER, pJoinDate IN DATE)
IS
BEGIN
-- Your coding goes here
NULL;
END setJoinDate;
--
FUNCTION getJoinDate(pEmpNo IN NUMBER) RETURN DATE
IS
BEGIN
-- Your coding goes here
RETURN NULL;
END getJoinDate;
END;

Its discovery last month captured the imaginations of millions around the globe.

And the news that an Earth-like planet had been found which could support life and which lay only 20 light years away sparked feverish speculation that we may not be alone in the universe.

But now a group of scientists have claimed that Gliese 581g, a rocky world just three times the size of Earth, may not even exist.

The devastating claim has been made by a group of Swiss astronomers who have cast doubt on the original research and say that they can find no trace of the planet in their own analysis of the same data.

In the original announcement last month a team led by Dr Stephen Vogt from the University of California said that Gliese 581g lay in its star’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ – the region in space where conditions are neither too hot or too cold for liquid water to form oceans, lakes and rivers.

Planets orbiting distant stars are too small to be seen by telescopes. Instead, astronomers look for tell-tale gravitational wobbles in the stars that show a planet is in orbit.

But Francesco Pepe of the Geneva Observatory in Sauverny, Switzerland, told a conference in Torino, Italy, that a combination of old and new data acquired by his team shows no sign of the planet.

Pepe said: ‘If a signal corresponding to the announced Gliese 581g planet was present in our data we should have been able to detect it.’

His team had access to the same sets of data that the original researchers who trumpeted the existence of the planet to worldwide fanfare at the end of September.

Those measurements revealed a total of four planets circling the star. The team’s latest report also includes an additional 60 measurements made with the sensitive HARPS spectrograph on a telescope at La Silla, Chile.

They discovered the existence of the four planets circling Gliese 581, which had already been confirmed, but could find no sign of Gliese 581g – the planet which had gripped the public’s imagination.

Pepe told the conference: ‘From these data we easily recover the four previously announced planets. However, we do not see any evidence for a fifth planet in an orbit of 37 days’.

He told New Scientist that he was not trying to undermine Dr Steven Vogt who led the original study at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

‘We are not trying to prove the nonexistence of a planet,’ Pepe said. ‘It’s really difficult to prove that something does not exist. We are just saying we do not see a significant signal that is really different from noise.’

Steven Vogt, who did not attend the meeting in Turin, told New Scientist said that HIRES data – which were not used by the Geneva team – were needed in order to see the planet.

He told the magazine: ‘I feel confident that we have accurately and honestly reported our uncertainties and done a thorough and responsible job extracting what information this data set has to offer.’

He added: ‘In 15 years of exoplanet hunting, with over hundreds of planets detected by our team, we have yet to publish a single false claim, retraction, or erratum.’

The Swiss team has not yet published its results in a peer-reviewed journal – crucial if its doubts are to be taken seriously by the scientific community.

Last month researchers said that the discovery of Gliese 581g suggested the universe is teeming with world like our own.

If it exists, it is so far away, spaceships travelling close to the speed of light would take 20 years to make the journey. If a rocket was one day able to travel at a tenth of the speed of light, it would take 200 years to make the journey.

The findings come from 11 years of observations at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

The planet orbits a small red star called Gliese 581 in the constellation of Libra. The planet, named Glieseg, is 118,000,000,000,000 miles away – so far away that light from its start takes 20 years to reach the Earth.

It takes just 37 days to orbit its sun which means its seasons last for just a few days. One side of the planet always faces its star and basks in perpetual daylight, while the other is in perpetual darkness.

The most suitable place for life or future human colonists would be in the ‘grey’ zone – the band  between darkness and light that circles the planet.

‘Any emerging life forms would have a wide range of stable climates to choose from and to evolve around, depending on their longitude,’ said Dr Vogt who reported the find in the Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have now found six planets in orbit around Gliese 581 – including the no-disputed ‘g’ – the most discovered in a planetary system other than our own solar system.

Its star is a red giant – a massive star near the end of its life. It is too dim to see in the night sky from Earth without a telescope.

Astronomers have found nearly 500 exoplanets – or planets outside our own solar system.

However, almost all are too big, made of gas instead of rock, too hot or too cold for life as we know it.

Source: Mail Online

It has long been the preserve of science-fiction, but it seems that there really was life on Mars.

New research has found that the Red Planet was once rich in carbon dioxide, increasing the chances that Mars has harboured life.

Widespread deposits of carbonate rock are buried a few miles beneath the surface, according to scientists.

Small amounts of this mineral have been detected on Mars before.

But if they are abundant it means the greenhouse gas could have helped make it a much wetter and warmer place hundreds of millions of years ago.

Space scientists used satellite data to analyse the geology of a region known as the Leighton Crater near the enormous Martian volcano Syrtis Major, which is almost 750 miles wide.

This revealed extensive deposits of the mineral almost four miles below the crust that were exposed by a massive meteorite impact, according to the findings published in Nature Geoscience.

The team believes these represent ancient sediments that were subsequently buried by volcanic material ejected during eruptions from Syrtis Major.

The mineral probably came from carbonate-rich water, which interacted with the rock, leading researchers to believe that early Mars was hotter than previously thought.

Dr Joseph Michalski, of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, and Dr Paul Niles, of the NASA Johnson Space Centre in Houston, said the surface of Mars is now cold, dry, acidic and inhospitable to life.

Similar conditions may have persisted for billions of years, suggesting the best place to search for habitable environments is the subsurface.

The researchers said: ‘One hint of habitable conditions at depth is the presence of atmospheric methane, which may have formed through hydrothermal processes in the crust, in the presence of carbon dioxide.

‘The observation of hydrated minerals excavated by some impact craters suggests that ancient hydrothermal systems may have existed in the subsurface, but until now, none of those deposits has been linked to carbonate minerals and CO2-rich environments.

‘Previous detections of carbonate minerals that could be linked to an ancient CO2-rich surface environment have been sparse.’

A dense carbon dioxide atmosphere would mean some kind of greenhouse effect on Mars. The atmosphere now is very thin so the gas could have blown into space or interacted with water and become present in the rocks.

The carbonate is also evidence that the water was chemically neutral, which would have made conditions more permissive for life on early Mars.

The researchers added: ‘The mineral assemblage, textural properties and geologic context of the deposits indicate that these rocks are probably ancient sediments that were metamorphosed during burial by younger volcanic materials from the nearby Syrtis Major volcano.

‘We suggest that these buried layered carbonates might be only a small part of a much more extensive ancient carbonate sedimentary record that has been buried by volcanic resurfacing and impact ejecta.

‘Our discovery may help explain the origin of other carbonates on Mars and indicates a high-priority site for future exobiological exploration.’

Missions to Mars

For decades, conquering Mars has represented the ultimate dream for scientists. Here are the most noteworthy attempts:

1960 – USSR attempts first Mars mission. Destroyed on launch

1964 – U.S. sends Mariner 4 and records first pictures of the planet

1971 – USSR sends Mars 3, the first lander to reach the surface of Mars and transmit data. It fails after 14.5 seconds on the surface

1976 -  US lands Viking 1 on the surface and transmits images for six years

2008 – Water confirmed (as ice) by the Phoenix lander

2009 – Methane confirmed by Nasa’s infrared telescope in Hawaii

2011 – Nasa to launch MSL mission

Source: Mail Online

Scientists have found water ice on an asteroid for the second time in just six months.

The discovery suggests that such ice is more common on asteroids in our section of the solar system than previously thought – and that such asteroids may have delivered much of the essentials for early life to Earth.

Two research teams found evidence of water and organic molecules on asteroid 65 Cybele.

Six months ago the teams made a similar discovery on a different rock – asteroid 24 Themis – for the first time.

‘This discovery suggests that this region of our solar system contains more water ice than anticipated,’Humberto Campins, of the University of Central Florida, told reporters at the 42nd American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Pasadena, California on Friday.

‘And it supports the theory that asteroids may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water and the building blocks for life to form and evolve here.’

He told the meeting that the teams had used two different Nasa instruments to analsye sunlight bouncing off 65 Cybele.

Using powerful Nasa telescopes, they found what they believe is a layer of ice less than one micron thick, Campins said.

The scientists still are not sure where the ice came from, he said. But it could be primordial – that is, leftover from the beginning of the solar system’s formation.

When the teams found ice on the first asteroid, 24 Themis, in April this year it change the way many think about the space rocks.

Both asteroids – found in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars – had always been considered too close to the sun to have water. Any water they may have carried at the beginning of the solar system’s formation should have long evaporated by now, scientists argued.

But the fact that water appears to still exist on the space rocks, 4.6billion years later, suggests that it may have been asteroids that delivered the water that filled Earth’s oceans.

The research has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Source: Mail Online