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Israel foils Libya's aid ship plans

July 11, 2010 3:36am

INTENSE diplomatic efforts by Israel, Greece, Egypt and Moldova prevent Libyan aid ship from breaching Gaza blockade.
The agent of the Amalthea cargo ship told AFP in Athens that the Moldova-flagged boat set sail from Greece, where it was anchored, and was heading for the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
Israel, which came under fire from the international community after its forces killed nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists in a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31, said it was sure the ship would not reach Gaza.
"Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke several times in recent days with the foreign ministers of Greece and Moldova and reached understandings with them about dealing with the Libyan ship," Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The Foreign Ministry believes that due to these talks, the ship will not reach Gaza.".
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak spoke with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and asked "if Egypt would agree to accept the boat at the port of El-Arish".
The Greek foreign ministry confirmed it was in contact with Israel over the boat but would not elaborate. It was not immediately clear if Egypt had acceded to Barak's request.
But Israeli officials said Moldovan authorities had made contact with the captain of the ship who agreed to divert the cargo to El-Arish.
Later on Saturday, the ship's agent said the vessel had set sail from Lavrio, 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Athens.
"All the ship's documents are in order, they indicate as its destination the Egyptian port of El-Arish," Petros Arvanitis told AFP.
He also confirmed talks were held between the various parties on the boat's final destination.
A charity headed by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, had announced plans on Friday to send a boat load of humanitarian aid from Greece to Gaza.

Spacecraft captures rare asteroid photos

 From correspondents in Paris
July 11, 2010 11:49am

THE European spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction.
Racing through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter at 47,800k/ph, the one billion euro ($1.45 billion) probe flew within 3200km of the huge potato-shaped rock, Lutetia.
"The fly-by has been a spectacular success with Rosetta performing faultlessly,'' ESA said in a statement.
"Just 24 hours ago, Lutetia was a distant stranger. Now, thanks to Rosetta, it has become a close friend,'' the agency added.
Holger Sierks of Germany's Max Planck Institute, who is in charge of the spacecraft's Osiris (Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System) camera said the more than 400 "phantastic images'' showed many craters and details.
"Rosetta opened up a new world which will keep scientists busy for years,'' he added.
"We have completed the fly-by phase,'' Rosetta's director of operations Andrea Accomazzo said earlier on the ESA's website from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
The aim of the fly-by of the asteroid, measuring 134km in diameter, is to measure Lutetia's mass and then calculate its density, knowledge which could one day be a lifesaver, according to ESA scientists.
If a rogue asteroid enters on a collision course with Earth, knowing its density will help the planet's defenders to determine whether they should try to deflect the rock or, instead, blow it up.
As Rosetta is around half a million kilometres from Earth, the probe's signal and images took 25 minutes to be received.
Most measurements suggest Lutetia is a "C'' type of asteroid, meaning that it contains primitive compounds of carbon. But others indicate it could be an "M'' type, meaning that it holds metals.
New data proving this could rewrite the theory about asteroid classification.
Metallic asteroids are far smaller than Lutetia: they are deemed to be fragments of far larger rocks that, in the bump and grind of the asteroid belt, were smashed apart.
The fly-by comes halfway through the extraordinary voyage of Rosetta, launched in 2004 on a 12-year, 7.1 billion kilometre mission.
One of the biggest gambles in the history of space exploration, the unmanned explorer is designed to meet up in 2014 with Comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko 675 million kilometres from home.
The goal is to unlock the secrets of these lonely wanderers of the cosmos, whose origins date back to the dawn of the Solar System, some 4.5 billion years ago, before planets existed.
To get to its distant meeting point, Rosetta has had to play planetary billiards for five years, using four "gravitational assists'' from Earth and Mars as slingshots to build up speed.

New plant named after vuvuzela


NewsCore
July 11, 2010 8:53pm

A NEWLY-discovered iris plant has been named after South Africa's vuvuzela as a lasting memory of the World Cup.
The distinctive horn polarised soccer fans and TV viewers with some claiming it captures the unique spirit of the event, while others complained it ruined their enjoyment of the tournament.
The plant, "Moraea vuvuzela" is described on the website of the South African National Biodiversity Institute as having colourful, flared yellow flowers whose "massed, synchronous appearance" had appropriate associations with the horn's name.
Dr Tanya Abrahamse said the suggestion came from a retired staff member.
"And the rest, as they say, is history."
The iris grows naturally only in South Africa's Western Cape and is under threat from agricultural development.

Spacecraft captures rare asteroid photos

NEW pictures of a massive space rock 134km in diameter could one day help protect Earth from rogue asteroid collisions.
NEW pictures of a massive space rock 134km in diameter could one day help protect Earth from rogue asteroid collisions.


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