Please save this message for reference. Discuss the Outer Solar System, from the Moons of Jupiter to the outer reaches of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. It is...
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Mar 1, 2003 12:08 pm
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Worker Cites Possible Flaw In Adhesive Used on Tank By EDWARD WONG 1b6ea7a.jpgEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27 NASA officials are looking into whether workers at a NASA...
http://www.nasaproblems.com/ Space Shuttle Safety Moratorium The space shuttle without crew escape modules is unsafe for human transportation. There has never...
Still no news to speak of about it -- except that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is out to get it. While it wasn't mentioned in the news accounts of last week's...
... The new orbit solution using the recovery data makes S/ 2001 J 5 the most distant of Jupiter 40 satellites. S/ 2001 J 5's semi-major axis is 24.36 million...
Glenn Mahone/Doc Mirelson Headquarters, Washington March 4, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1600) RELEASE: 03-091 NASA ENCOURAGES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 4, 2003 8:01 pm
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IAU Circular 8087 reports on the discovery of seven new satellites of Jupiter. They were discovered by the team at Mauna Kea using the 8.3-m Subaru telescope,...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 4, 2003 10:28 pm
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http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/jup2003.html New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered in 2003 University of Hawaii A work in progress: Most recent...
... I'm amazed by this. The Galileo orbiter never imaged these at all? And it's been at Jupiter for what, eight years now?? All this from a spacecraft that...
Cassini Weekly Significant Events for 02/27/03-03/05/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday,...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 8, 2003 8:07 am
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According to IAU Circular 8089, four more Jupiter moons have been discovered. Ron Baalke...
Ron Baalke
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Mar 8, 2003 8:13 am
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... From: Ron Baalke To: Planetary Sciences Group Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: [planetary_sciences] Four More Jupiter Moons! According to IAU...
MPEC 2003-E29 (2003 Mar. 7) (URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K03/K03E29.html) The orbital elements and ephemerides for S/2003 J 1 and S/2003 J 6 supplied...
... Are they using those image compression routines on the Cassini images too, to get even *more* back? I'd sure rather they didn't, considering how sometimes...
... Not to mention what audio (at very high sample rates) that was sent back from Galileo. Hopefully, with the higher data rates there'll be longer, better...
... I'm just wondering how we're going to cope with the metric buttloads of data it's going to send back. Is the total downlink/bandwidth/whateverthetermis...
... Unfortunately I do not have online access to Science :-( :-( so I haven't seen this article (yet) but has anyone here read it and seen if there is any...
OK, possibly a silly question here, but it's just struck me that I don't really know how this works... When something like Galileo or Cassini or any other...
Is there a defined limit to the size an object must be to be considered a "moon"? Jupiter is getting to the point that perhaps innumerable objects orbit the...