[meteorite-list] Mad dash for movie pilots - NASA's Genesis s pacecraft

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 7 04:00:51 2004
Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C86904EE6001_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>

Note that this article is from an Australian website -- consequently,
the reference to Thursday morning is ~their~ local time. For those
in position to actually see the reentry (eastern Nevada, northern
Nevada, northern Utah), it occurs on Wednesday morning... --Rob

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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10688455%5e401,00.html

Mad dash for movie pilots
By Michelle Pountney
September 7, 2004

HOLLYWOOD stunt pilots will grab a piece of the sun in a daredevil
retrieval
of one of NASA's most ambitious space projects.

Early on Thursday morning, a space capsule containing about 10 to 20
micrograms of the sun's solar wind elements will return to Earth in a
spectacular blazing fireball.

As it streaks over the east coast of the US at 11km/second, the recovery
capsule from NASA's Genesis spacecraft will glow 100 times brighter than
Venus in the morning sky.

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