Mike Matessa, PhD, CMT, Dad

Research Psychologist
Cognition Lab / ISIS Spacecraft Interface Lab
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 262-4
Moffett Field CA 94035
650-604-6291
mmatessa @ hotmail.com
Curriculum Vitae

Tenth planet discovered... and it has a moon

Other minor planets

Mike's big California break

Web: Searching (MetaCrawler, Maps) .... Astronomy .... Magazines .... Utilities (Translate) .... Shareware

Current: Views ... News ... APOD ... Weather ... Night Sky ... Movies ... TV Guide

Ames: Intranet ... Astrogram ... Mac User Group ... Credit Union ... Libraries

CogSci ... Artificial Life software ... AI schools& repository ... Communication

Want to see Mike's brain? ... Or family tree? ... Or travel pictures?

50 Ways to Save the Planet
Other Interests

Have Carpal Tunnel? Try vitamin B6...

We currently have spacecraft
on the surface of Mars (see),
orbiting the Earth (see), the Moon (see), L1, L2, the Sun (see), Mars, Saturn (see), and the asteroid Itokawa,
on the way to Venus, Mars (see), Mercury (see), and the comet 67P/C-G,
coming home from the comet Wild-2 (see),
and beyond the solar system

"We now know of more planets outside the solar system than within." (163 planets, Latest News)
Extrasolar Planets ... (Sky Chart, Star Map, Data, Planet Types?)

First Extrasolar Planet (OCT-1995)
First Multiple-Planet Extrasolar System (APR-1999)
First Saturn-sized Extrasolar Planets (MAR-2000)
First Oxygen Detection in an Extrasolar Planet (MAR-2003)
First Uranus-sized Extrasolar Planet (AUG-2004)
First Picture of an Extrasolar Planet (APR-2005)

Now you can help the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with SETI@home (best signals, exoplanets map)

"A 23-page message compiled using Dutil and Dumas' technique, along with links to related sites,
can be found on the web at http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil-dumas.html."
- Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations

Interstellar Communication

Cool Shareware: Starry Night ... Cool Web Page: Alien Message Game ... Cool Book: Biomimicry

Do you like Open Source Software or Old Time Radio or candles?

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