[meteorite-list] UA Science Team Readies For NEAR Landing

From: Meteordealer <meteor.dealer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:07 2004
Message-ID: <007701c0915d$1bcd4f80$de7d0304_at_vz.dsl.genuity.net>

Hopefully it fares better than the Mars probes. :-(

Brad Sampson
meteor.dealer_at_gte.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Latimer" <tracyl_at_lib.state.hi.us>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] UA Science Team Readies For NEAR Landing


> OK ladies and gentlemen, place yer bets!
> Anyone want to start a pool on what will happen when the spacecraft
> finally does touch down (impact?) the surface of Eros?
> Bounce wildly around before settling down, a la Pathfinder on Mars?
> Bounce once or twice?
> Settle gently to land?
> Bury itself in a puddle of dust?
> Come in too fast and splatter itself over the landscape?
> Bounce off and become another eventual Earth-impactor? or spin off into
> uncharted space?
> Go BOOM (heaven forbid!)?
>
> The possibilities are boundless. I'm just pleased to have a front row
> seat for the landing. Thank you, Ron, for the regular updates.
>
> Tracy Latimer
> --I'll put one of my unidentified Sahara chips into the kitty--
>
>
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Received on Wed 07 Feb 2001 06:24:23 PM PST