Here Ya Go, Marvin ---- !

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    This one is tailor-made!



March 14, 2008

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
410-338-4514
villard@stsci.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-058

HUBBLE DETECTS ORGANIC MOLECULE ON AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET

WASHINGTON - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on
Wednesday, March 19, to report on the first-ever detection of the
organic molecule methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a
distant star.

Though the planet is too hot to support life as we know it, the
finding demonstrates the ability to detect organic molecules
spectroscopically around Earth-like planets in habitable zones around
stars.

Briefing participants are:
- Dr. Mark Swain, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
- Dr. Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

This unique discovery, made with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and
Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), will be featured in the March 20
issue of the journal Nature.

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Ray
Villard at 410-338-4514 or Cheryl Gundy at 410-338-4707 at the Space
Telescope Science Institute by noon on March 19 for the call-in
number and passcode. At the start of the briefing, images and
supporting graphics will be posted on the Web at:

http://hubblesite.org/news/2008/11

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's Web site
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on the Web,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/hubble


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“/yawn/”

“METHANE?///DID YOU SAY METHANE...I thought only EVIL humans did that....”

“Next Tilt will tell of plan it's that have everything to support humans beings , but zero wingnuts and sillibbies.”

“That's awesome, Tilt.”

“In a solar system light years away...... somebody's got heineken farts.”

“Everyday Hubble provides such great information.

Very exciting. It's truly remarkable how Science provides clearer understanding of Homosapien2 place in the Universe.”

“Ya know how a lot of people complain about all the money we spend on the space program? We spend .07 of a penny on the space program. That's a bargain in my book.”

“FWIW -- there is a TTer that's working on the Orion project.”