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SUBJECT: SPACE PROBE FILE: UFO2779
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Matched keyword: SPACE...
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XMT: 20:02 Tue Apr 17
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EXP: 20:00 Tue Apr 24
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SPACE PROBE PRODUCES "DISTURBING" LACK OF EVIDENCE
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WASHINGTON (APRIL 17) UPI - A space probe exploring the evolution of the
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universe has produced a "disturbing" lack of evidence to explain the
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uneven distribution of galaxies through the cosmos, scientists said
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Tuesday.
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While preliminary data from the Cosmic Background Explorer, known as
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COBE, continues to support the "big bang" theory of the universe's
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creation, the information gathered so far has failed to explain its
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current "lumpy" formation.
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"The smoothness is disturbing us a lot. At this point we're beginning to
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expect little warts and dimples to appear," said David Wilkinson, a
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professor of physics at Princeton University.
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Wilkinson spoke at a news conference at an American Institute of Physics
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meeting about the latest results from COBE, an ultra sensitive satellite
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launched in November 1989 on a two-year mission.
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The $160 million orbiting space probe was designed to answer fundamental
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questions about the formation and evolution of the universe by collecting
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data about faint radiation left over from the big bang explosion.
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Scientists theorize the universe exploded into existence 15 billion years
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ago in a hot, dense fireball that instantly began expanding in all
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directions.
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During the news conference, scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight
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Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the University of California at Berkeley
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said the data collected so far by COBE appears consistent with those
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theories.
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"It's astonishingly consistent with the big bang theory," Wilkinson said.
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The NASA scientists also released a new color photograph of the Earth's
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home galaxy, the Milky Way, based on a composite of data collected by
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COBE.
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"This thing that he gave you is spectacular. I mean that's wonderful,"
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said Wilkinson of the image. "My God, it's as though you were in
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Andromeda taking a picture of our galaxy."
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But COBE has failed to find any traces of significant energy release
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after the first huge explosion. That is inconsistent with the current
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"lumpy" state of the universe, with its massive clusters of galaxies and
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giant dark voids.
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The researchers stressed, however, they have barely begun to sift through
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the huge amount of data the satellite is collecting. Years of data
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collection and analysis will follow and is expected to yield
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revolutionary findings, they said.
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"One year or two years from now, if those pictures are still looking
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smooth at the accuracies we'll have then, then there's real trouble. Then
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there's real big trouble," said Wilkinson.
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