An Anniversary SETI Campaign
Department:
SETI
Teaser:
"In a gigantic cosmic redial experiment, astronomers in a dozen countries will point telescopes at some of the stars that were part of the world's first search for alien life 50 years ago."
Source:
SPACE.com Download time: Nov 11 2010 7:44 AM ET
In a vast cosmic experiment equivalent to hitting "redial," astronomers in a dozen countries are aiming telescopes to listen in once again on some of the stars that were part of the world's first search for alien life 50 years ago.
The coordinated signal-searching campaign began this month to mark the 50th anniversary of Project Ozma, a 1960 experiment that was christened the world's first real attempt in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – or SETI.
Like Project Ozma, which got its name from a character in L. Frank Baum's series of books about the Land of Oz, the new search is called Project Dorothy.…
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