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Wednesday, 06 December 2006

>everybody's got one
Ohio has joined the growing list of states seeking to attract commercial spaceport development by offering $20 million in incentives to Canadian-American space firm PlanetSpace to make Rickenbacker International Airport their home base, according to a recent MSNBC article.

Other states seeking to acquire commercial spaceports include California, Alaska, Oklahoma, Florida and Virginia. New Mexico is already slated to be the home of Virgin Galactic.

>Tagish, you're it

Analysis of a meteorite which fell on Tagish Lake in Canada in 2000 has revealed not only primitive organic compounds, but also bits of extraterrestrial ice, according to the Canadian government. As if that isn't noteworthy enough, some of the material within the Tagish Lake meteorite is believed to be as old as the solar system itself.

Part of a rare and fragile class of meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites, the quality of the find is attributed partly to lack of contamination and partly to the meteorite remaining frozen after landing.
The meteorite could have come from the Kuiper Belt, or even farther out.

 
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