The powder in the letters of the Italian companies was harmless substance
White powder in letters delivered on Thursday in the Italian collection agency and the office Equitalia Milan Stock Exchange, was harmless substance, reports Agence France Presse.
Subscribe envelopes with white powder to various state agencies has become popular with postal hooligans after in 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks criminals in this way spread anthrax in the United States, from which five people died.
Receiving letters with white powder in a number of countries automatically includes measures of epidemiological safety.
"This stuff is certainly not anthrax, but more like sugar" - told local media spokesman for the region of Lombardy.
The state company Equitalia, excise and collection of debts, in December, has twice received a dangerous premise. Both times the attack "post terrorists" were Roman representation of the company. In one of the offices Equitalia December 9 bomb exploded, killing one member of staff injured. Fifteenth day of December mailing it to the other Roman office Equitalia. Vzryvotehniki specialists who examined the package, concluded that the inside was explosive.
As reported previously, the agency TMNews, for sending parcels may be hazardous Italian anarchist group FAI (Informal Anarchist Federation), which has claimed responsibility for the attack on 9 December, as well as for sending a letter in early December with an explosive board chairman Josef Ackermann Deutsche Bank , which was delivered to the address of the bank in Frankfurt am Main last week.
A year ago, in December 2010, Italian and Greek anarchists sent many mine-affected parcels around the world. In Switzerland and Chile embassies in Rome because of such parcels injuring two people.
Comet Lovejoy managed to overcome the effects of the sun
Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) experienced a close encounter with the sun, deprived of a tail - the new images from the SOHO solar observatory can be seen as due to the stellar disk goes bright coma, while on the other hand is noticeable fading tail.
"Somehow she survived nearly hour immersion into the solar corona at a temperature of several million degrees, and came again in sight of the coronagraph LASCO (onboard SOHO) and SECCHI (devices STEREO), almost as bright as before! The only noticeable loss - a tail, "- said in a statement on the website the research program comets U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The appearance of the comet after perihelion passage has become a sensation for astronomers all calculations showed that the rapprochement with the Sun at a distance of about 150 000 km (half the distance from Earth to the Moon) was completely vaporize the comet nucleus size which was only about 100 - 200 meters.
Fans watching for comets, ask each other's blogs, which can be a recipe of sunscreen, which is used by a comet, and look forward to new images of the solar observatory.
Comet C/2011 W3 was found Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy on November 27. The calculations showed that on the night of December 16, the comet will fly at a minimum distance from the sun - only 140 thousand kilometers from the surface of the star. This is more than 100 times shorter than the distance between the Sun and Mercury, and two times less than the distance from Earth to the Moon.
The scientists were confident that the comet evaporates completely before perihelion passage. On the eve of the space observatory SOHO has recorded as a comet whose brightness reached -4 magnitude (the brightness of Venus), went over the solar disk.
Then, another orbiting solar telescope, SDO, recorded as the horizon appears hazy cloud of lights - comet itself or its remnants.
