Page 4 January 3 , 2013 Looking Up Vet Offers Pet Safety Tips New Neighbors? for New Year Closest Single Star Like Our Sun By Greg Perrault get the right policy for your needs. There are May Have Habitable Planet survived the end of the world according to insurance. The least expensive may not beseveral companies that now offer pet healthIf you are reading this, it means you have By Bob Eklund significantly improved our noise modeling the Mayan calendar. Cheers! It’s now time the best for your situation so always read the An international team of astronomers led by techniques and increased our ability to find to get matters in order for your pet in 2013. fine print. Most companies will require you to the University of Hertfordshire has discovered low-mass planets.” Here is a simple check off list that every pay for services at the time they are rendered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun- Hugh Jones from the University of pet owner needs to do on the first of the year: and then submit a form for review after like stars, may host five planets—with one in Hertfordshire commented, “We chose Tau • Take a photo of your pet. Your pet’s looks your pet has received care. Reimbursement the star’s habitable zone. At a distance of 12 Ceti for this noise modeling study because change with age just like us and if your pet for care comes after the insurance company light-years and visible with the naked eye in we had thought it contained no signals. And goes missing you will need a current picture. reviews the case and many times this may the evening sky, Tau Ceti is the closest single as it is so bright and similar to our Sun, it • Check your pet’s microchip registration take a few weeks to a few months. If you star that has the same spectral classification is an ideal benchmark system to test out our and update any new phone numbers or are considering health insurance for your as our Sun. Its five planets are estimated methods for the detection of small planets.” addresses. (If your pet doesn’t have a chip, pet, it is important to get it early before any to have masses between J a m e s J e n k i n s , get one ASAP. They are inexpensive, safe emergencies or health conditions arise. Most two and six times the mass Joy to the Worlds Universidad de Chile and and are the best form of identification. ) companies will request medical records from of the Earth—making it In each galaxy Visiting Fellow at the • Consolidate your pet’s medical information the previous 12 to 24 months and will not the lowest-mass planetary A trillion new wonders wait… University of Hertfordshire, into one folder. Include a list of any medicines cover preexisting conditions. system yet detected. One Joy to all the worlds! explained, “Tau Ceti is your pet takes. If you don’t like the idea of pet insurance, of the planets lies in the -Bob Eklund • one of our nearest cosmic • Use technology to your advantage. You you should save a set amount every month. habitable zone of the star neighbors and so bright that can scan and save your pet’s medical records The amount should be at least the amount it and has a mass around five we may be able to study the atmospheres of onto your phone. There are iPhone and takes to fill up your car’s gas tank one time. times that of Earth, making it the smallest these planets in the not-too-distant future.” Android apps you can download to file pet This strategy can pay off if you have a healthy planet found to be orbiting in the habitable Over 800 planets have been discovered records, or you can just use a note-taking app pet. If you don’t have to use the money for zone of any Sun-like star. orbiting other worlds, but planets in orbit like Evernote. You can even email medical emergencies, you’ve saved up a nice little The international team of astronomers, around the nearest Sun-like stars are records and pet photos to your smart phone. nest egg for the future. However, you could from the UK, Chile, the USA, and Australia, particularly valuable. Steve Vogt from • Program your veterinarian’s information be caught off guard if an emergency comes combined more than 6,000 observations from University of California Santa Cruz said, into your phone’s address book. Include the up before you’ve had a chance to build up three different instruments and intensively “This discovery is in keeping with our after hours emergency clinic your veterinarian some savings. modeled the data. Using new techniques, the emerging view that virtually every star has recommends. A better idea for most people is a team has found a method to detect signals planets and that the galaxy must have many • Program the address of your vet and combination of both insurance plus a small half the size previously thought possible. This such potentially habitable Earth-sized planets. the emergency afterhours clinic into your monthly savings. Look at the cost of the greatly improves the sensitivity of searches They are everywhere, even right next door!” car’s GPS. different insurance plans. Most insurance for small planets. Chris Tinney from the University of New • Put these things in your trunk: A spare companies offer decent inexpensive plans Mikko Tuomi, from the University of South Wales added, “As we stare the night leash, a plastic or steel bowl, some bottled starting around $25 per month and would Hertfordshire and the first author of the sky, it is worth contemplating that there may water, a few cans of pet food and a blanket. cover emergencies but not routine care. In paper, said, “We pioneered new data modeling well be more planets out there than there are Done! That was easy. addition to the insurance, put away the same techniques by adding artificial signals to the stars—some fraction of which may well be Another important item to do for your pet amount of money into a savings account for data and testing our recovery of the signals habitable.” • on the first of the year is to make a budget. your pet. For example, $25 goes to insurance with a variety of different approaches. This Emergencies can easily cost $2,000 to $3,000 and $25 goes to savings. This way you are and payment is usually due at the time services covered immediately should an emergency are rendered so you’ll need to plan wisely. happen right away and you still are building Put a set amount of money away each month a nest egg for the future. for emergency care. Easier said than done, I hope everybody is having a wonderful Visit us online: but there are a few different strategies that holiday season. 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