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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Apr 1, 2003 12:36 pm
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ESA Science News http://sci.esa.int 01 Apr 2003 Splashing down on Titan's oceans Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a mysterious place. Its thick atmosphere is...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 2, 2003 8:30 am
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MPEC 2003-G09 : S/2003 J 13 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K03/K03G09.html Quick specs: Semi-major axis: 23545000 km E: 0.412 Incl: 141 Orbital Period: 738.07...
... Do you mean temporarily captured-in-orbit objects, like Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9? I would guess it would take a couple of months of observations to pin down ...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 3, 2003 6:47 pm
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Forum on Concepts & Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Mission In cooperation with the Office of Solar System Exploration of NASA Headquarters, the LPI...
... Ah, that's different. These two object are in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, but they are not Earth satellites. I would not consider them to be...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 4, 2003 1:12 am
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... I was using these as examples. Perhaps a better analogy would be the spent Saturn rocket upper stage that is presently in orbit around the Earth, and will...
Here's this intriguing announcment from IAU circular 8107: OBJECTS NEAR JUPITER V (AMALTHEA) P. D. Fieseler and S. M. Ardalan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 4, 2003 9:28 pm
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Cassini Significant Events for 03/27/03 - 04/02/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Canberra tracking station on Wednesday, April 2....
Ron Baalke
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Apr 4, 2003 11:05 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...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 4, 2003 11:25 pm
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... 1) Which way's south in space? Does that mean 'below its orbital plane, in the direction of the jovian south pole?' If so, what the heck is anything doing...
... Does anyone else think this is getting a little silly now? Surely there should be a lower limit to the size of satellites, otherwise we're going to land up...
... Below the orbital plane. ... Unlikely, as even Comet SL9 didn't hang around or even approach any of the Jupiter satellites. ... Hard to say, as they were...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 5, 2003 9:09 am
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... Not at all. I find it exciting. ... OK, let's set 10 meters as the lower limit. ... And what's wrong with that? I remember a couple of years ago some ...
Ron Baalke
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Apr 5, 2003 9:13 am
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Dear Ron, Why are these "objects" near Amalthea not listed as new moons of Jupiter? Thanks for your help. Rick L. Sterling [Non-text portions of this message...
*gasp* Excuse me while I just recover from the shock of getting a reply from The Voice Of NASA :) ... They're getting discovered so often, it's kinda losing...
My link to Yahoo keeps fouling up and disconnecting me from my E-mail connection to my Yahoo sites, but (at least for the moment) I'm back -- an event which...
... That's probably 'BAITED breath' :) 'bated breath' is probably short for 'abated breath' - yep. See http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-bat1.htm Jupiter...
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