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Old 03-September-2008, 12:10 AM
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Default Pushing the Polite Boundaries of Science About Dark Matter

Rumors are spinning faster than a neutron star about the possibility that a European satellite mission called PAMELA may have made a direct detection of dark matter, the mysterious particles thought to make up as much of 85% of all matter in the Universe. Word got out in August at a conference [...]

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Old 03-September-2008, 12:15 PM
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Fraser. I'll put my money on them finding more of the diffuse hot gas that was detected using ultraviolet spectroscopy for oxygen atoms entrained, than the putative dark matter of non-baryonic nature. pete

see:http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11612

see also:http://www.physorg.com/news130516845.html
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