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Sep/Oct 2002Mercury Magazine Contents
Vol. 31 No. 5
September/October 2002

  

Special online article: Web Power Tools, for Amateur Astronomy, from Professional Astronomy

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14 Why SETI Will Fail, Ben Zuckerman
The union of space telescopes and interstellar spaceships guarantees that if extraterrestrial civilizations were common, someone would have come here long ago.
24 SETI’s Prospects Are Bright, Seth Shostak
Thousands of communicating civilizations could populate our galaxy. And there are plenty of reasons why none of them have visited Earth.
30 2002: A Martian Odyssey, Stephane Barile
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has both good news and bad news for would-be martian explorers.
34 Flattening the Earth, Jeffrey Burton Russell
Contrary to popular folklore, medieval Europeans knew Earth was a sphere, and, with the notable exception of Christopher Columbus, most had a pretty good idea of its true size.
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4 Editorial, Robert Naeye
Astronomical Wagers
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8 Research Notebook, Christopher Conselice
Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link
9 Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek
Ring Around the Black Hole
10 Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham
The Lunar Challenge
11 Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
Search for an Intra-Mercurial Planet
12 Focus on Education, Marni Berendsen
 Living Inside the Milky Way
13 Observer’s Page, John Shibley
Monsters of Autumn
C1 Sky Map and Sky Talk, Richard Talcott
September Sky Map | October Sky Map | November Sky Map
39 Book Review, Philip Plait
Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe (by Govert Schilling)
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