This is sad news. The Whipple Shields on the Stardust spacecraft, which protected the spaceraft during its Comet Wild 2 encounter earlier this year, were named in his honor. I first corresponded with Whipple in 1997, and he wrote this letter to the project:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/whipple_letter.html Fred Whippled was invited by the project to the Stardust launch in 1999, where I first met him in person. Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
