Subj : Newsline Part 4
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Sep 08 2016 10:03 pm

KICKER: DANCING WITH THE STARS?

JIM/ANCHOR: And finally, our last report, which comes to us courtesy of
another solar system. Well, maybe. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Jason
Daniels, VK2LAW.

JASON'S REPORT: When the RATAN-600 telescope in Russia spotted a signal
on the 11 GHz band for about four seconds in May of 2015, Russian
astronomers found themselves believing it might just originate from a
sun-like star, HD164595. Could the powerful signal have indeed come from
an alien life form in that solar system, considered billions of years
older than our Sun?

Possibly - but it took the Russians about a year to share news of that
radio signal with others, including the SETI Institute, where astronomers
share that passionate search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer with the Institute, would like to
believe that possibility of an alien transmitter reaching out, of course,
but he's just not sure.

As with most radio contacts, the mystery may not be solved perhaps until
the QSL card arrives. With the solar system 94 light years away, however,
that could take some time.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

(THE SETI INSTITUTE) 

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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West
Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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