Page 4 December 20, 2012 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Looking Up Business Briefs from page 3 Cassini Spots Mini Nile River favorite feature. “I acknowledged Brittany, hanging out with his family and friends. JTplaying soccer, fishing, camping surfing andher eyes to be donated because they were her on Saturn Moon in detail,” said Raquel, who three months those kids who were often alone and hadalways sought to help others and befriendbut didn’t want to talk about the subject later would be faced with that hypothetical no one talk to. “After he passed, many of By Bob Eklund which was first hinted at from the images of situation becoming reality. In April 2008, at his friends told us that JT had such a kind The international Cassini mission has spotted channels and gullies seen by ESA’s Huygens the young age of 19, Brittany was in a severe heart,” said his mother Barbara. “He was a what appears to be a miniature extraterrestrial probe as it descended to the moon’s surface car accident which left her in a coma. Five true friend who didn’t care about what was version of the Nile River--a river valley on in 2005,” says Nicolas Altobelli, Cassini days later, after complications from a blood on the surface or befriend you simply to Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than Project Scientist for ESA (the European clot, Brittany was determined to be brain dead. better his career.” JT had played club soccer 250 miles from its “headwaters” to a large Space Agency). Her mother remembered the conversation she since he was seven and went on to garner hydrocarbon sea. It is the first time images Titan (or Saturn VI) is the largest moon of had with Brittany earlier in the year, so she an athletic scholarship to play on the men’s have revealed a river system this vast and in Saturn. It is the only natural satellite known to supported Brittany’s wishes to donate. Four soccer team at Cal State University Dominguez such high resolution anywhere beyond Earth. have a dense atmosphere, and the only object of Brittany’s organs saved three lives. Her Hills (CSUDH). He graduated with honors in Scientists deduce that the river is filled with other than Earth for which clear evidence of right kidney was received by Erica, who was business administration and was the recipient liquid because it appears dark along its entire stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. on the transplant waiting list for over seven of the Dr. Hal Charnofsky Male Scholar Athlete extent in the high-resolution radar image, Titan is the sixth ellipsoidal moon from years and is doing very well. Brittany’s liver of the Year award in 2006. After college, JT indicating a smooth surface. “Though there Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like was given to a woman named Kimberly, and worked as a customer service representative are some short, local meanders, the relative moon, Titan has a diameter roughly 50 percent her left kidney and pancreas were given to at an automobile company. “Players like him straightness of the river valley suggests it follows larger than Earth’s moon and is 80 percent Joseph, a husband and father of one. Brittany’s are why you coach,” said Joe Flanagan, JT’s the trace of at least one fault, similar to other more massive. It is the second largest moon gifts of bone, skin and heart valves have coach at CSUDH. “I knew him as a student large rivers running into the southern margin of in the solar system, after Jupiter’s moon helped individuals throughout the country to and as a teammate, and he was extremely this same Titan sea,” says Jani Radebaugh, a Ganymede, and it is larger by volume than heal from injuries, burns and heart defects. well-liked by his peers and teammates. JT Cassini radar team associate at Brigham Young the smallest planet, Mercury, although only Those who benefited from her donations was definitely the most quietly competitive University. “Such faults—fractures in Titan’s half as massive. Titan was the first known hail from California, Iowa, Kentucky, person I have ever met and he’s probably bedrock—may not imply plate tectonics, like moon of Saturn, discovered in 1655 by the Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, the nicest kid I’ve ever coached.” On July on Earth, but still may lead to the opening of Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, and Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington 30, 2008, JT suffered a sudden neurological basins and perhaps to the formation of the it was the fifth moon of a planet apart from D.C. Brittany’s corneas were donated to the disorder; he was only 25. The exact cause giant seas themselves,” she adds. the Earth to be discovered. Louisiana State University Eye Center for was never determined, although the numerous Titan is the only other world we know of The Cassini-Huygens mission is a research on macular degeneration. Recently, concussions he suffered playing soccer over that has stable liquid on its surface. While cooperative project of NASA, ESA, and Raquel became a Donate Life Ambassador the years may have been a contributor. Earth’s hydrologic cycle relies on water, Titan’s ASI, the Italian Space Agency. NASA’s and spends much of her time volunteering After four days in a coma, JT’s family and equivalent cycle involves hydrocarbons such Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of with her local organ recovery organization, friends said goodbye to him. The CSUDH as ethane and methane (which we know as the California Institute of Technology in OneLegacy, and sharing Brittany’s story to soccer team wore his uniform number 3 on natural gas). Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s encourage others to become registered donors. their sleeves in his honor during the 2008 Images from Cassini’s visible-light cameras Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Brittany’s decision to be an organ donor has season. “When asked about organ donation, revealed regions that darkened after recent The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed made a remarkable and widespread impact our family all agreed that is what JT would hydrocarbon rainfall. Cassini’s visual and and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument on the lives of many. Her mother hopes to want. Unbeknownst to us, JT had already infrared mapping spectrometer confirmed was built by JPL and ASI, working with carry on the legacy by being Brittany’s voice signed up to be an organ donor and was in the presence of liquid ethane at a lake in team members from the United States and and making sure everyone she meets knows the donor registry,” said Barbara. “We are so Titan’s southern hemisphere known as Ontario several European countries. how important it is to make the choice to thankful and grateful that JT is able to bless Lacus in 2008. Images: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/ be a donor. others with the gift of life. He is a hero in “This radar-imaged river provides another Space_Science/Cassini_spots_mini_Nile_ Jaret Toshiro “JT” Minami grew up with our eyes and his gift of life has saved and fantastic snapshot of a world in motion, River_on_Saturn_moon • a passion for the great outdoors and had fun improved the lives of many others.” • Looking for the Torrance Tribune? You can find us at all the following locations as well as our Web site: www.heraldpublications.com Want a subscription? For $95 a year, we will mail a newspaper to your home. Just mail us a check. We will use the address on the check for your subscription address, unless instructions state otherwise. Mail the check to Herald Publications, 312 E. Imperial Ave., El Segundo, 90245. Please add “Torrance Subscription” in the memo line. 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