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Show IIhiimI.u. Vnemlvi :i. m I'ir HI KM I) I'. I'.ilvI)' ( Photographs a gift The final frontier enthralls author Crosivell that keeps on giving solar systems are not like ours; hunters have been looking for certainly at this time most of the years to make their detections. Newspapers known solar systems outside our Q. What if someone on different own are from another our quite planet was looking at Out of the billions of suns in own. But that may change as our solar system? with the universe, potentially A. If another planet had the trillions more planets orbiting new planets are found. of hundreds If same are Q. technology as us. they planets their distant stars, as of July each day in Milky Way. would discover probably 1997 there have been exactly born it because the of doesn't has the first, discovery eight Jupiter nine planets discovered outside seem somewhat biggest wobble uhe gravitationsolar systems our solar system. al influence that makes the sun This isn't a problem for paltry? of A. move back and forth i. They but Well, course: the Harvard-traineastronomer we found nine planets could detect our Jupiter, and fact that Ken Croswell. author of ""'Planet within a relatively small dis- almost detect our Saturn; the Quest: The Epic Discovery of tance from home implies that only hitch is that our Jupiter Alien Solar Systems" (Free there are vast numbers of plan- takes 12 years to go around the Press, $25), because this search ets out there. sun. so they'd need 12 years of has just begun. Was the "Nightlinc" episode data to really feel confident. Q. At the International Cafe in when the discovery of in 1995 Q. What about the continual his hometown of Berkeley. a was refuted essentially planet discovery back on Earth of Calif, he described the quest. a fiasco lor the phantom planets'.' Ted Koppel by Q. How close are we to findscientific com inn n ty? A. You don't know what's out ing another Earth? A. The criticism was that the there. There could be a planet A. I think it's going to be 20 or astronomer announced the dis- almost anyw here you just don't :i0 years before we can find an sciwithin just a few hours know. This is cutting-edgEarthlike planet around a sun- covery of looking at the data. when you're on the and ence, like star. I think one of the main Q. Without going through frontier of science, you're going points of the book is just that the to make mistakes. And there's proper channels and prewe're right now at the beginhis findings through no great crime in doinu so. senting ning. You know, if we do this the major publications'.' (J. How about interview 10 years from now, we A. I didn't get the sense that Deaths" in the field, the scienmay have 100 planets instead of was the problem. It's just that tists who make a name for nine outside the solar system. not checking is really irresponthemselves by disproving the Q. Your publisher thinks the sible. You don't discover a existence' of extrasolar planets'.' just search for extrasolar planets is A. It's absolutely crucial that planet in an hour. It can take humankind's greatest advenof Manv when we report results they be the years. planet ture. How about it? By TOM SLI as correct as they can be. Anything in science is open to question, and can be shot down. So it's very important to have people who have shot down IS Knight-Riikl- k.Dear Heloise: I recently received the most thoughtful (gift from an elderly friend who Swan moving to a smaller home. Over the years I had sent her photos of my children. She wrote to say how much she had jenjoyed watching them grow ,up through the photos and that she was having to pare down her belongings, so she was HELPFUL HINTS d returning them rather than throwing them away or keep- I ing them only to have some relative do it in the future. I was delighted to get them back. Some of them 1 had no duplicate for. I combined these photos with some duplicates or similar photos and made albums for each of my grown children. If something happens to my photos, my children will have some of the old family pictures to treasure. Be sure to put pictures in an archive-qualit- y album to preserve them. Now, I plan to return many of the pictures that friends sent me years ago so that they can pass them on to their future generations. Brenda Chilcoat, Allen, Texas They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and to give back photos is surely worth two! Give your friend a hug for being so thoughtful. Heloise Dear Heloise: Here's a tip for dog or cat owners. It has saved our dog from a trip to the pound a couple of times over the years. I just use fabric paint and paint his name and address on his coliar. It lasts as long as a dog tag would and looks color- - Heloisk ful. It can even sparkle, depending on the paint used! Donna Griem, Salina, Kan. Dear Heloise: I have a g hint. helpful My mother has eight kids who still receive some of their mail at her house. She took litwicker baskets, tle mail-siz- e put our names on each one and mail-sortin- also works when you come over with keys and need a place to put them. Now when we walk in, we check our slot. M.J. Moore, St. Louis Dear Heloise: Use a large permanent marker to write "C" for conditioner and "S"' for shampoo on bottles to use in the shower where you cannot A see without your glasses. Reader, Suburban Md. A. 7X2-500- lime-savin- g 0 COOKIES SCHOOL. OTHERS WHEN DID 6AKED ZENITH'S PRE ..SO, Tfl Wf COOKIES VOU A Time TO f wuun I n uvr. Of COOKIES, TORE Off THE WRAPPER HAVE THEM THREW BAKE COOKIES? THE IN HADE WW LITTLE THAT ZENITH WHO'S TO WORK, HAS SOMETO Cathy Guisewite THE KNOW) I WILLINO EXTRA KEEBlEfs f RATS. I THOU&HT I'D SCRAPED THOSE ELF. None of these newly discovered planets has life, but they're still interesting objects, interesting in and of I mm " n In " "N r r"A A fflf Heel ill ALL Off. SO miLE FOR HER. WOULD If planets. com- THEM AS LOOK EvIERWNE it of one in order for us to be able to THAT EVEN TH0U6H ONE OVEN AND BURNED SO IT WANT it's we merely because we think it exists'.' A. To mi' it was secondary whether oilier planets had life on them, and if still not that important an issue. As a kid thought it was neat jusl l hat there were other will find pare other systems with our own. We may well find that most By THE OTHER. FOR Well, humankind's greatest adventures. Planets are really important for two big reasons. Number one, life needs planets. No other planets means no other life. I mean, if ours was the only solar system in the universe, ours would be the only civilization in the universe. Secondly, the discovery of other solar systems is necessary Send a or hint to Heloise. PC) Box 7"5(mt). San Antonio TX or fax it to I ean t answer your letter iersoiiaily but will use the best hints received in mv column. money- - another E.uthlike planet, e hung them behind the front door on the wall. Keeping mail sorted and out of the way is no problem. It before. We don't always as we want it to be. (J. What about the carrot and-stick analogy mentioned in the book, where if there is i Cathy ILL false reports want to have more planets out there than there are. We don't want to think Barnard's star has two planets like Jupiter and Saturn when in fact it doesn't. One may not like the results of their work if they shoot down a planet that we all came to like, as in the case of Barnard's star, but those are the facts. The universe is as it is, it's not I COOKIES. We'll clean your carpets without over wetting long drying times, or causing fiber distortion. We get out the dirt, soap and chemical residues left by all other carpet cleaning methods. 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