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Article #74Re: active planetary probes; should someone update the FAQ
From: Doug Davey
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 18:40
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 18:40
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In article <BwuDyG.A7@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
> Actually, I exaggerate slightly... Hiten has one science instrument, a
> German dust detector, which has been returning some interesting results:
^^^^^^^^^^^
My goodness. A detector that can determine the country of origin of dust.
>
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> 11.05 Iglseder H.* Grun E. Munzenmayer R. Svedhem H.
> Cosmic Dust and Beta-Meteoroids in the Earth-Moon System: More
> Than Two Years of Operation of the Munich Dust Counter MDC
^^^^^^^^^^^
Heavens! This thing really is specialized. It only counts dust from Munich.
Ironically, from the rest of the report, we learn that the instrument
only found "cosmic dust". This must have been a great disappointment
to its designers. :-) :-) :-)
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att-out!walter!iscp.bellcore.com!ddavey From: ddavey@iscp.bellcore.com (Doug Davey) Subject: Re: active planetary probes; should someone update the FAQ Message-ID: <1992Oct28.184032.16274@walter.bellcore.com> Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com Nntp-Posting-Host: dodger.iscp.bellcore.com Reply-To: ddavey@iscp.bellcore.com Organization: Bell Communications Research References: <NICKH.92Oct26143550@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU> <1992Oct26.232910.28586@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <BwsHM3.7ns.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BwuDyG.A7@zoo.toronto.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 18:40:32 GMT Lines: 23