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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 081.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. March 21, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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** FCC's Notice of Proposed Rule Making Broadband
over Power Lines -- ET Docket 03-104 -- has been published in the Federal
Register. This starts the clock on the comment deadline. Comments are du=
e
by May by 3rd. Reply comments due by June 1. Comments may be filed
electronically via the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System at
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload --Newsline
** Physicists in New Zealand have shown that last November's
record-breaking solar explosion was much larger than previously estimated=
,
thanks to innovative research using the upper atmosphere as a gigantic x-=
ray
detector. Before the storm peaked, x-rays overloaded the detectors on th=
e
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), forcing
scientists to estimate the flare's size. Taking a different route,
researchers from the University of Otago used radio wave-based measuremen=
ts
of the x-rays' effects on the Earth's upper atmosphere to revise the flar=
e's
size from a merely huge X28 to a "whopping" X45, say researchers Neil
Thomson, Craig Rodger, and Richard Dowden .--SpaceDaily
** A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the
NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, made the closest approach to Earth ev=
er
recorded. There was no danger of a collision with the Earth during this
encounter. The object, designated 2004 FH, is roughly 30 meters (100 fee=
t)
in diameter and passed just 43,000 km (26,500 miles, or about 3.4 Earth
diameters) above the Earth's surface on March 18th at 22:08
UTC. --SpaceDaily
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