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A rock from Orkney that was launched into space could help establish if life exists on other planets, Aberdeen University scientists believe.
The rock was attached to a Russian spacecraft last year to test the theory that meteorites can carry primitive life forms from one planet to another.
The rock, which spent 12 days in space as part of a series of experiments by the European Space Agency, was chosen as it contains the remains of primitive algae that lived in the Orkney region almost 400million years ago.

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STONE-6 artificial meteorite shows Martian impactors could carry traces of life  
An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency has shown that traces of life in a martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earths atmosphere.  The experiments results also suggest that meteorite hunters should widen their search to include white rocks if we are to find traces of life in martian meteorites.
The STONE-6 experiment tested whether sedimentary rock samples could withstand the extreme conditions during a descent though the Earths atmosphere where temperatures reached at least 1700 degrees Celsius. After landing, the samples were transported in protective holders to a laboratory clean-room at ESTEC and examined to see if any traces of life remained.  The results will be presented by Dr Frances Westall at the European Planetary Science Congress on Thursday 25th September.

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Having smashed the world record for the longest human-made object flown in space, the YES2 team turned its attention to what happened with the Fotino capsule. The onboard beacon had failed to activate and signal the capsule's final location.

"We have some confidence that the capsule actually came down" - Marco Stelzer, a mission analyst and ground support engineer with the European Space Agency.

A full-length tether deployment would have released the capsule back into Earth's atmosphere. A U.S. ground station in Alaska did not detect Fotino flying overhead after the tether release, also suggesting the capsule re-entered instead of continuing in a low-Earth-orbit with the Foton spacecraft.

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Debris from the Foton M-3 rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 1st December 2007 @ 23:38 UTC ± 24 hours.

Predicted Decay Location    29.5° N, 337.7° E
Inclination    62.9°
Revolution Number    1074

TLE Data
FOTON M-3 DEB
1 32246U 07040C   07333.88863262 +.01544751 +87323-5 +17789-3 0 01337
2 32246 062.9303 247.3982 0006942 026.1182 334.0362 16.36312833010400
1 32246U 07040C   07334.25511950  .01897354  87628-5  18693-3 0  1336
2 32246 062.9255 245.8814 0006937 030.8104 329.3572 16.37704263 10462
1 32246U 07040C   07334.19405766  .01833127  87582-5  18572-3 0  1328
2 32246 062.9253 246.1374 0006988 027.1739 332.9813 16.37457330 10451
1 32246U 07040C   07333.82751231  .01491545  87273-5  17613-3 0  1313
2 32246 062.9299 247.6506 0006455 022.9002 337.1904 16.36097270 10392
1 32246U 07040C   07333.70528988  .01413671  00000-0  17504-3 0  1301
2 32246 062.9295 248.1612 0005948 017.9040 342.2843 16.35640627 10370


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Aliens Can Survive Trip to Earth (Life on Earth from space)



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Alien Life Can Survive Trip to Earth
We could have alien origins, say scientists who sent fossilized microscopic life-forms into space and back inside an artificial meteorite.
The researchers attached the baseball-size rock to the outside of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 spacecraft to test whether biological material could survive the round-trip journey.
                     
The European Space Agency's spherical Foton M3 capsule  landed in the Kazakh desert on September 26 with an artificial meteorite attached to its exterior.
 Credit Paula Lindgren, University of Aberdeen.

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A rock quarried on Orkney was blasted into space to find out if meteorites could carry primitive life from one planet to another.
One theory being tested is whether life could have arrived on Earth from Mars.
University of Aberdeen experts had the rock attached to an unmanned Russian craft and found life would probably only survive in a large meteorite.
Further details about the experiment will be revealed at the Highland Science Festival on 3 November.

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A Soyuz-U Rocket Body  that was launched on the 14 September, 2007, from the Baikonour Cosmodrome, for the Foton M3 mission  is to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 14th October 2007 @ 16:09 GMT ± 96 hours.

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SL-4 R/B
1 32059U 07040B   07282.85900297  .00865794  84595-5  36501-3 0   735
2 32059 062.9385 090.1978 0007408 348.3957 011.7124 16.22492723  4082
1 32059U 07040B   07282.48914847  .00805767  84465-5  35809-3 0   729
2 32059 062.9392 091.6916 0007242 344.8448 015.2494 16.21844079  4027
1 32059U 07040B   07282.11915551  .00750778  84354-5  35044-3 0   710
2 32059 062.9380 093.1826 0007364 349.0873 011.0141 16.21227263  3960
1 32059U 07040B   07281.93409988 +.00732875 +84301-5 +34985-3 0 00736
2 32059 062.9375 093.9279 0007137 348.4386 011.6608 16.20948372003935
1 32059U 07040B   07281.87240880  .00726900  84284-5  34952-3 0   706
2 32059 062.9375 094.1763 0007148 347.8341 012.2695 16.20856382  3923


Predicted  Location     1.1° N, 345.7° E
Inclination    62.9°
Revolution Number    486

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The reentry capsule for the Foton-M3 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 12 days, successfully landed this morning in an uninhabited area 150 km south of the town of Kustanay in Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border, at 09:58 CEST, 13:58 local time.

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