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In article <2j9ldf$5jg@s1.gov>, Jordin Kare <jtk@s1.gov> wrote:


>Clem en TINE.  Ghu knows where Patrick Moore's alternative came from.

Is patrick Moore a canadian?  in which case, hise pronunciation
of cle-men-tin-a  may just be correct :-)

!>>How did the probe come to get this name in the first place?
!>
!>Stu Nozette, who initially promoted the mission concept at SDIO,
!> was thinking about asteroid mining (miner '49er's) and
!>about asteroid flybys (after which the spacecraft is "lost and gone
!>forever") and decided to call the (at that time embryonic idea for a)
!>mission "Clementine".  For a while, NRL made a determined effort to 
!>use a more "official" name, DSPSE, the Deep Space Program Science 
!>Experiment, but that got pronounced "Dipsy", and everyone else 
!>kept calling it Clementine, so they eventually gave up...
!>(No doubt the DSPSE satellite should have used a computer with a SCSI bus :-)

!>"In a lab up near the Beltway
!>Where the weather's seldom fine,
!>Lived a feller, an NRL'er
!>And his satellite, Clementine
!>
!>	Oh, my darling, Oh my darling, 
!>	Oh, my satellite, Clementine!
!>	You are launched and gone forever
!>	Send some data, Clementine!"
!>
!>		Jordin (Bard of the Spaceways) Kare
>


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