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Pioneer Phones Home Pioneer 10, anearly US robot planetary probe which is continuing into deep space, is now nearly seven million kilometres away - but has yet to find and cross the edge of the solar system. The heliosphere - the space in which the Sun’s gases and magnetic field create an enveloping shield against incoming interstel- lar gases and radiation - was once thought to Whale on Dolphin Whales Return extend only to the orbit of Jupiter. But Pioneer is still reporting solar wind, the 1.6 million km/h flow of charged gases from the Sun Ci onference which creates a thin “atmosphere” throughout Australia’s easter humpback whales are re- the solar system. turning, with large pods of breeding whales The 227 kg craft, cruising at 45,440 km/h, The First International Whale and Dolphin __ being sighted off the Queensland coast. Now still transmits faint reports using 1972 power | conference was held at Valla Beach on the | whale-watching is becoming a growth indus- supply, solar cells and computer equipment. | NSW North Coast in May. People came from | try. After becoming the first spacecraft to traverse | across Australia and the world to celebrate Estimates of eastern Australia’s original the asteroid belt beyond Mars and conduct a | this conference of over a dozen “brilliant | humpback population range up to 10,000; by reconnaissance of Jupiter (which was sup- | minds and hearts”, including John C. Lilly, | thelast whaling season of 1963-4, humpbacks posed to be the limit of it’s voyage), Pioneer is | Burnum Burnum and representatives of ceta- | had been decimated to between 200 and 500 now 45 times the distance from the Earthtothe | cean rescue groups and societies. whales. Estimates now place their number at Sun, which is so dim that Pioneer can no | Leading researchers and ‘dolphin dreaming’ | about 1,000. longer use it for guidance. It’s so far beyond | exponents fleshed out the weekend with intel- “We’re very concerned about the impact Pluto, whose orbit it crossed five years ago, | lectual and intuitive insights andexperiences. | of tourism,” says Professor Michael Bryden that radio signals take 12 and a half hours to Dr Horace Dobbs, an author and scientist | of Sydney University, who is studying hump- make the round trip from Earth. who leads an international campaign to free | backs at Hervey Bay near Fraser Island. “Too Mr. Robert Jackson, deputy directorofthe | captive dolphins, gave a paper on curing | much boating activity could disrupt their Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, | chronic depression by taking people out to | mating, and mother-calf pairs could be broken California, says Pioneer’s power supply | meet friendly dolphins in the wild. up. should continue transmitting data for at least Over 200 delegates from 18 countries “Several local boats had started up whale- four years, possibly much longer -maybelong | approved aresolution at the end of the confer- | watching trips, and we have heard by word of enough for Pioneer to report on conditions | ence calling for recognition “that human sur- | mouth that the local tourist trade benefited by where the heliosphere ends and true interstel- | vival is inseparable from the health and wel- | about $1 million” last year. lar space begins. fare of all species and of theright to life of free A lone British yachtsman was rescued by “In the next three years we havea strong | species in their rightful domain.” They ask | an RAF jet earlier this year after a pod of 20 chance of encountering the boundary,” said | that the governments of Japan, the Faroe Is- | whales destroyed his sloop Hyccup in the Dr. James Van Allen,” a physicist at the Uni- | lands, Denmark, the U.S. and Mexico end the | mid-Atlantic. versity of Iowa who discovered the Earth's | millions of needless cetacean deaths at human 41 year-old David Sellings was taking radiation belts. He and Darrel] Judge said | hands. part in a solo Trans-Atlantic race when the years of observation suggest the heliosphere’s Tuna fishermen are still taking a heavy | whales destroyed his 7.5 metresloop 1,600km size fluctuates widely over an 11-year cycle. | toll on dolphin lives; Japanese tuna boats | from land. “It's quite a dynamic situation,” Dr Van | slaughter about 50,000 dolphins annually, “It’s very unusual for whales to attack a Allen said. “Strangely enough, when solar | while about 20,000 die in American waters, | boat, but not unknown,” said a RAF rescue activity is at a minimum in the cycle, the | accidentally fouled In tuna nets. Off Mex- | spokesperson, who suggested the whales may pressure of the solar wind is greater and this | ico, up to 200,000 dolphins die in tuna nets | have been protecting their young. expands the heliosphere. At solar maximum, | annually according to the conference, which there’s more turbulence, but not the same | asked Prime Minister Hawke to exert influ- momentum, and so the heliosphere con- | ence to end Japanese whaling activities in tracts.” Antarctic waters 3,000 km from Perth. The In 1983, Pioneer scientists discovered a | Japanese are killing 300 Minke whales for huge sheet of electrical current aligned with | ‘scientific purposes’ there this year. the Sun’s equator and invisibly surrounding it The resolution also calls for “positive in a huge ring. This current sheet undulates | action to restore the peace and purity of the continuously in harmony with the Sun’s rota- | world's oceans.” tion. NE S New Times Spring 1988 Pioneer Phones Home Pioneer 10, anearly US robot planetary probe which is continuing into deep space, is now nearly seven million kilometres away - but has yet to find and cross the edge of the solar system. The heliosphere - the space in which the Sun’s gases and magnetic field create an enveloping shield against incoming interstel- lar gases and radiation - was once thought to Whale on Dolphin Whales Return extend only to the orbit of Jupiter. But Pioneer = is still reporting solar wind, the 1.6 million km/h flow of charged gases from the Sun Ci onference which creates a thin “atmosphere” throughout Australia’s easter humpback whales are re- the solar system. turning, with large pods of breeding whales The 227 kg craft, cruising at 45,440 km/h, The First International Whale and Dolphin __ being sighted off the Queensland coast. Now still transmits faint reports using 1972 power | conference was held at Valla Beach on the | whale-watching is becoming a growth indus- supply, solar cells and computer equipment. | NSW North Coast in May. People came from | try. After becoming the first spacecraft to traverse | across Australia and the world to celebrate Estimates of eastern Australia’s original the asteroid belt beyond Mars and conduct a | this conference of over a dozen “brilliant | humpback population range up to 10,000; by reconnaissance of Jupiter (which was sup- | minds and hearts”, including John C. Lilly, | thelast whaling season of 1963-4, humpbacks posed to be the limit of it’s voyage), Pioneer is | Burnum Burnum and representatives of ceta- | had been decimated to between 200 and 500 now 45 times the distance from the Earthtothe | cean rescue groups and societies. whales. Estimates now place their number at Sun, which is so dim that Pioneer can no | Leading researchers and ‘dolphin dreaming’ | about 1,000. longer use it for guidance. It’s so far beyond | exponents fleshed out the weekend with intel- “We’re very concerned about the impact Pluto, whose orbit it crossed five years ago, | lectual and intuitive insights andexperiences. | of tourism,” says Professor Michael Bryden that radio signals take 12 and a half hours to Dr Horace Dobbs, an author and scientist | of Sydney University, who is studying hump- make the round trip from Earth. who leads an international campaign to free | backs at Hervey Bay near Fraser Island. “Too Mr. Robert Jackson, deputy directorofthe | captive dolphins, gave a paper on curing | much boating activity could disrupt their Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, | chronic depression by taking people out to | mating, and mother-calf pairs could be broken California, says Pioneer’s power supply | meet friendly dolphins in the wild. up. should continue transmitting data for at least Over 200 delegates from 18 countries “Several local boats had started up whale- four years, possibly much longer -maybelong | approved aresolution at the end of the confer- | watching trips, and we have heard by word of enough for Pioneer to report on conditions | ence calling for recognition “that human sur- | mouth that the local tourist trade benefited by where the heliosphere ends and true interstel- | vival is inseparable from the health and wel- | about $1 million” last year. lar space begins. fare of all species and of theright to life of free A lone British yachtsman was rescued by “In the next three years we havea strong | species in their rightful domain.” They ask | an RAF jet earlier this year after a pod of 20 chance of encountering the boundary,” said | that the governments of Japan, the Faroe Is- | whales destroyed his sloop Hyccup in the Dr. James Van Allen,” a physicist at the Uni- | lands, Denmark, the U.S. and Mexico end the | mid-Atlantic. versity of Iowa who discovered the Earth's | millions of needless cetacean deaths at human 41 year-old David Sellings was taking radiation belts. He and Darrel] Judge said | hands. part in a solo Trans-Atlantic race when the years of observation suggest the heliosphere’s Tuna fishermen are still taking a heavy | whales destroyed his 7.5 metresloop 1,600km size fluctuates widely over an 11-year cycle. | toll on dolphin lives; Japanese tuna boats | from land. “It's quite a dynamic situation,” Dr Van | slaughter about 50,000 dolphins annually, “It’s very unusual for whales to attack a Allen said. “Strangely enough, when solar | while about 20,000 die in American waters, | boat, but not unknown,” said a RAF rescue activity is at a minimum in the cycle, the | accidentally fouled In tuna nets. Off Mex- | spokesperson, who suggested the whales may pressure of the solar wind is greater and this | ico, up to 200,000 dolphins die in tuna nets | have been protecting their young. expands the heliosphere. At solar maximum, | annually according to the conference, which there’s more turbulence, but not the same | asked Prime Minister Hawke to exert influ- momentum, and so the heliosphere con- | ence to end Japanese whaling activities in tracts.” Antarctic waters 3,000 km from Perth. The In 1983, Pioneer scientists discovered a | Japanese are killing 300 Minke whales for huge sheet of electrical current aligned with | ‘scientific purposes’ there this year. the Sun’s equator and invisibly surrounding it The resolution also calls for “positive ~ - > in a huge ring. This current sheet undulates | action to restore the peace and purity of the < (G continuously in harmony with the Sun’s rota- | world's oceans.” tion. = == ——— NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 17 Pioneer Conference Phones Home