Hi, Jeff, List, This Week's Award for the Best "Did-Anyone-Remember-To-Close- The-Hatch-On-The-Spacecraft-Before- We-Took-Off?" post goes to Jeff.
Good work. I can only repeat: "Well," said Micromegas, "perhaps the beings who inhabit it do not possess good sense." Sterling K. Webb ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Kuyken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Future Dimming for Arecibo Telescope (Asteroid99942 Apophis) > Hi Ron & all, > > Below: > >>The telescope is so prized that astronomers let out a collective shudder >>in November when a review panel recommended the U.S. cut 25 percent of >>the observatory's $10.5 million astronomy budget next year and consider >>eliminating it entirely at the end of the decade. > >>From the post on Monday: > > [meteorite-list] The Threat is Out There (Asteroid 99942 Apophis) > http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2006-December/028906.html > >>NASA, however, is taking a wait-and-see attitude. An analysis by Steven >>Chesley of the Near Earth Object program at the Jet Propulsion >>Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., concludes that we can safely sit >>tight until 2013. That's when Apophis swings by Earth in prime position >>for tracking by the 1000-ft.-dia. radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. > > Mmmmmmm! > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list