Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 2003)
f WWW.COMCHURCH.COM 10 Sundays, 10:30 am. GCOaRwoori frt:erm. ScHocrf Monday, September 15, 2003 {’Stcrg* Bueh & Hoti 'K b0N»d CS Ox*. Or.) Sms$f Wrouahaa; trh« communityCHURCH NASA to crash Galileo Impact with Jupiter will end 14-year m gr®B 2 By Andrew Bridges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jupiter’s icy frosting /olume 11 I K X V 8 AX M l! a j v *: k s 11 v :; a«MA VIU UUtA SOJLStUTY Experience the opportunity of a lifetime!! Become a member of the newest chapter of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority Texas A&M University Informational Meeting One-On-One Meetings Philanthropy Night Preference Night Sunday, September 14, 2003 September 15-17, 2003 Thursday, September 18, 2003 (By Invitation) MSC 201 MSC228 MSC 225 Friday, September 19,2003 7.30pm 9:00a.m.-8:30p.m. 6:00p.m. & 8:00p.m. College Station Hilton Questions? Please call Gamma Phi Beta at 979.680.5747 or email at tamuvammaphXcp.aolcom. OzfONA GRILL t BAR BEAT THE HELL OUTTA VA. TECH THURSDAY NIGHT WATCH THE GAME ON 17 TV’S GREAT FOOD & $1 WELLS!!! 520 HARVEY ROAD - 694-4618 PASADENA, Calif. — NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend to make sure it doesn’t accidentally con taminate the planet’s ice-covered moon Europa with bacteria from Earth. After Galileo’s orbit carries it behind Jupiter at 3:49 p.m. EDT Sunday, the aging probe will plunge into the planet’s stormy atmosphere at a speed of nearly 108,000 mph. Its suicide dive comes at the end of its 35th orbit of the planet — far longer than the 11 orbits the spacecraft origi nally was planned to complete. The heat generated as it streaks through the atmosphere will vaporize the nearly 3,000-pound Galileo and the untold millions of microbial stow aways lurking since its 1989 launch. The crash will ensure Galileo doesn’t hit Europa and spill bacteria onto the ice that caps its enormous oceans. Europa, a planet-sized moon, is widely believed to have the most promising habitat for extraterrestrial life within the solar system. Were Earth bugs to gain a toehold on Europa, perhaps in pools of water warmed by radioactive plutonium the spacecraft uses to generate electricity, they could compromise future attempts to probe the moon for indigenous life. “It seems like a good place where, potentially, you can have life and it also seems like a place where Earth life would find it a nice place to live. So why hit it?” said John Rummel, planetary pro tection officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA typically scrubs its spacecraft clean of microbes to prevent what it calls the “forward con tamination” of other places in the solar system. That wasn’t done with Galileo, which NASA originally intended to leave in orbit around Jupiter. Years ago, however, the promise of Europa con vinced NASA to err on the side of caution and plans were made to destroy Galileo, which now is nearly out of the propellant that would allow it to trim its course. The concern is that the gravitational tug of Jupiter could alter the orbit of the spacecraft and cause it to hit Europa or another moon. The intentional crash will be the first since 1999, when NASA plowed the Lunar Prospector orbiter into the moon. In 1994, NASA crashed the Magellan orbiter into Venus. Satellites routinely crash to Earth, as NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory did in 2000. Recent research has revealed the tenacity of On Sept. 21. NASA will send its Galileo spacecraft in a suicide plunge into Jupiter. The planet's colorful covering of thick clouds likely veils a hot. liquid core. A probe released by Galileo in 1995 survived its own hour-long drop through the atmosphere, revealing details of its composition. & The bandingp> the equator ant low pressure a layered by Ihq rapid rotations i internal tempr-; cause verticali Galileo has ate observed mils on a massivest SOURCES: NASA: "Th Goodbye Gal NASA's Galileo sp has orbited Jupan 1995. It is slated toi into the planet Snd Sept. 21 microbial life and its ability to resist extremes of tempera ture and radiation. Even though Galileo has been buffeted by both, its shielded innards likely harbor viable microbes. “We in our infinite wisdom thought noth ing could survive in those harsh environ ments, but we are learning every day about things that can,” said Claudia Ale\ander, Galileo's seventh and likely last project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The 14-year mission has been amone' 1 most successful, despite a litany of glit* focus was to have been Jupiter itself, tar et’s quirky, diverse moons — includin: solar system’s most volcanically active 1 stole the spotlight. NASA hopes to wring some scientific c ments from Galileo before its demise. Whet does come, 1,500 people associated with sion are expected to gather at the lab to I Students in labs Monday r put around 10 somewhere be cut the optical (Texas A&M n< The probler three hours to where the gap said Willis Ma and Informatic During that network lines dents could at like eBay, Mai The discom CIS Director T ine all students S s m p r0 f depi occasion. Texas A&N group of resea of depression : diagnose ment The Menta screening tool 5 can be score utes or less, VI Meagher, f and colleague Diego and the conducted a st primary health using the MB I The short, fi larger Mental 1 in the general | The MB 1-5 much of the tin downhearted ai About II approxii l>o|Milati< disorder options it -Psychoth -Support £ -Medicatii -Natural r ers maratnon ti STUDENT REC CENTER Services Get Moving with Rec Fitness r e a t i o n reesports. tm Experience It All with TAMU Outdc u.s. Iwith FACULTY/STAFF MEMBERSHIPS—Now has never been a better time to check out Rec Center memberships. Rec Sports makes living a healthier life even easier with bank draft options for membership and locker payments. ADULT AND PEDIATRIC CPR—Register at the Member Services Desk for classes that begin as early as September 1 7th and run through the entire Fall semester. $25/$35 Aquatics-GOING DOWN . . . Program Registration Cost Basic SCUBA NOW-Sept. 29 $225/$245 Become certified to dive anywhere in the world. Join today at Member Services. Springboard Diving NOW-Oct. 13 $25/$35 Polar Bear Club All semester FREE UNLIMITED Aerobics Passes—On sale now at Member Services! $60 for an Unlimited Rec Aerobics Pass or $20 for a 10 pass Fitness Coupon Book. REC WALKERS—New program for the Fall. Join Fitness and Personal Training Staff each lunch hour for a brisk walk around campus. To learn more, attend the infor mation meeting September 15 at 12:15 p.m. in room 281 Rec Center or visit the Rec Sports web site at http://recsports.tamu.edu. Marathon Training Program—This 16 week program is geared to the novice and fitness enthusiast that wants to train for the HP Marathon in Houston. Attend the infor mation meeting Monday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m. in room 281 Rec Center. Program limited to the first 75 people signed up. FALL IMS. YOU don't want to miss it! Upcoming Events Climbing Technique Clinic Rock Climb 101 Clinic Kayak Roll Clinic Fly Fishing Day Trip Back Country Cooking Lead Climbing Clinic Rock Climb Enchanted Rod BREAK TRIPS Horsepacking Big Bend Ski Colorado Costa Rica Adventure Registration Event Q at event Sep! Sept. 1-17 Sepi Sept. 1-22 Sept' Sept. 1-23 Sept' Sept. 1-29 Sept Sept. 1-30 Sept Sept. 1-30 Od' Sept. 1-Nov. 7 Nov. 26- Sept. 1-Dec. 1 Jan. If Sept. 1 -Dec. 1 2 March W Drive On-Texas A&M Golf Course • NEW Full Length Driving Range—Come by and enjoy one of the Golf Course's newest additions, the full length driv ing range. Buy a bucket of balls and practice your swing, warm up before a round of 18 holes or just work up a sweat on a warm and balmy Texas night. • Lessons with the Pro—-On your own, with a partner or in a group-the Golf Course Pro will get your game on track. Open to the public! We are located on the south side of the A&M campus. Call the Pro Shop at 845-1723 & visit us online at http://recsports.tamu.edu. The following IM sports OPEN for registration on Sept. 15th: Tennis $5/person COREC SOFTBALL $45/team The following IM sports CLOSE registration on Sept. 16th: Penberthy Preseason Flag Football $10/tt Flag Football $45/team Badminton FREE MAKE $ $ $ $ the IM Way! We need IM Officials: CoRec Softball Orientation Clinic September 15 7:00 p.m. 281 Rec Center El Cap Club Sign-ups for the El Cap Club begin September 8th. 1 miss out on this new team challenge at the Wall. Climbing at the Rock Wall Want to renew your skills check or take an orientation c Come by the Rock Wall Mondays through Thursdays at p.m. and 7:00 p.m. FREE One Time Climbs September 16 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. September 17 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. September 18 from 3:30-9:30 p.m. Join the Rock Wall staff for three days of FREE one' climbs. Learning to climb or renewing your love for never been easier or cheaper! reesports. tern, ettu By Steph THE ASSOC KABUL, American i ground troop; lions Monda; s o u t h e Afghanistan part of an op tion that killed at leas suspected Tal fighters, the military said. There wen reported casut among U.S. Afghan troop the fighting began a day e: in Kand province and been dubfc Mountain Vipe issued by the headquarters ii