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From: sturges@master.lds-az.loral.com (Jim Sturges)
Subject: Re: Metric again
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: Loral Defense Systems - Arizona
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:59:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.222219.14106@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, sl25@cus.cam.ac.uk
(Steve Linton) wrote:
> 
> In article <17268@mindlink.bc.ca>, Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
> |> > John Roberts writes:
> |> >
> |> > By the way, I think you'll be much happier in the long run if you do your
> |> > calculations in SI (metric) units. I often do simple calculations in
> |> > standard
> |> > units, but the tough problems are much more easily handled using SI.
> |> 
> |> 
> |>         I am delighted to find that NASA seem finally to be moving toward
> |> metric, not just in theory but in reality.  Ron Baalke's postings about


From the society for the preservation of purity in language.....

ALL measuring systems are "metric." What we're talking about is the 
difference between SI and English?

Thanks for letting me put my $.0256 in....




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From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: French Republical Calendar (Was: Comet calendar)
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:24:33 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <Bwv83y.Jp9.1@cs.cmu.edu| roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
|
|-From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi ("F.Baube x554")
|-Subject: Comet =| Millennial Madness ?
|-Date: 27 Oct 92 12:16:49 GMT
|
|-Let's not be too Euro-centric here.
|
|-Does anyone know whether Wednesday 14 August 2126 
|-corresponds to any nice, round number in any *other* 
|-calendar systems ?
|
|-I'm thinking, something like 31 Urgtember 4999.
|
|If I recall my 10th-grade history class correctly, sometime around the time
|of the French Revolution, France was experimenting with a weird "metric"
|calendar (probably ten months per year). The only month I ever heard the
|name of was "Thermidor"(sp?), around July or August. Apparently it didn't
|catch on.
|
|Perhaps some of the French readers of sci.space could comment.
|
|John Roberts
|roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

There is someone over at soc.history who knows more about the French
Republical Calendar than I do, but it looks like he doesn't read this
newsgroup..

The calendar was introduced in 1793, during the revolution, as a 
substitute for the Gregorian. Among reasons for adoption was to
substitute a rational, scientific calendar for one less so.

There were twelve months each containing 3 decades of ten days each.
with 5 supplementary days in ordinary years and 6 days in leap years.
(not metric, still 365/366 days)

Autumn months:
Vendemiaire = vintage
Brumaire    = mist
Frimaire    = frost

Winter months:
Nivose      = snow
Pluviose    = rain
Ventose     = wind

Spring months:
Germinal    = seed-time
Floreal     = blossom
Prairial    = meadow

Summer months:
Messidor    = harvest
Thermidor   = heat
Fructidor   = fruits

It an attractive idea--getting rid of the Roman Emperors and the 
numerals that have lost their meaning.

The names fit only the northern hemisphere (and really only Europe--
Here in Colorado, it rarely rains in the winter and there is no
mist in autumn and we don't have wind, we have *wind*.)

1 Vendemaire, "Year 1 of Liberty", started on Sept 22, 1793. The 
calendar was used, almost exclusively by administrative bodies,
usually with the Gregorian date along side until 1805 when France
went back to the Gregorian. While the calendar didn't take,
the metric system of weights and measures did.
-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom)  Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.  
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 06:11:27 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <Bx7CqJ.L8G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tjn32113@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Nugent       ) writes:
>I thought that the reason Ranger 6 didn't send back pictures was because
>they forgot to take off the 'lens cap' before launch.  Seriously.  That's
>why they now have little red tags all over new probes etc. which say "Remove
>before launch."  At least that's the story I heard from a JPL engineer.

I'd say he was pulling your leg.  The electrical system on Ranger 6's
cameras was ruined during launch by a complicated accident.  It was a
design error, not a procedural mistake.
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Pioneer 6 Update - 11/11/92
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Keywords:  Pioneer 6
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:08:36 GMT

                            PIONEER 6 STATUS REPORT
                              November 11, 1992

     Yesterday, the Deep Space Network's 70 meter antenna in Goldstone,
California supported a tracking pass of the Pioneer 6 spacecraft.  Receiver
lock was attained, but we were unable to attain telemetry lock because no
subcarrier was detected.  The expected bit rate was 16 bps uncoded telemetry.
The AGC (Automatic Gain Control) was initially at -175.3 dbm, but was seen to
fluctuate causing the receiver to toggle in and out-of-lock.  The problem is
under investigation.

     Pioneer 6 was launched on December 16, 1965 and is the oldest surviving
spacecraft.  Pioneer 6 was last supported on December 16, 1990, on the
25th anniversary of its launch, and no problems were encountered then.
     ___    _____     ___
    /_ /|  /____/ \  /_ /|     Ron Baalke         | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
    | | | |  __ \ /| | | |     Jet Propulsion Lab |
 ___| | | | |__) |/  | | |__   M/S 525-3684 Telos | Give people a second 
/___| | | |  ___/    | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | chance, but not a third. 
|_____|/  |_|/       |_____|/                     |
From: claudio@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov (Claudio Egalon)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: the Happyface on Mars
Date: 7 Nov 1992 20:36:08 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: claudio@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov (Claudio Egalon)
NNTP-Posting-Host: b1230bmac8.larc.nasa.gov

The face on Mars makes remind about a suposedly bridge that was 
photographed on the Moon before the Moon landing. Of course, the 
darned bridge was some kind of optical ilusion. Hope Mars Observer 
can put the Face on Mars issue at rest.


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From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
Subject: Thumbs up
X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
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Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
Distribution: sci
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:33:54 GMT


-From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
-Subject: Lunar astronaut covers earth with thumb
-Date: 10 Nov 92 20:21:35 GMT
-Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

-On the last installment of "Space Age" Jim Lovell said while he
-was in the vicinity of the moon, he could cover the earth with his
-thumb while his arm was outstretched. (It was also attributed to
-Rusty Schweikart).

-I heard this a few years ago on a radio talk show with one of 
-the lunar astronauts as guest--was it Jim Lovell? 

Yes.

-A caller, who had a German accent, had trouble with this reasoned:

-(1) This distance to the moon from the earth is the same as the
-    as the distance to the earth from the moon,  
-(2) The earth is larger than the moon, and
-(3) We ordinary mortals here on earth can't cover the moon with 
-    a thumb with arm outstretched.

-His unstated conclusion was that the astronaut could not have done
-it and you could sense his reluctance to call the astronaut a liar.

-What is the error the caller made? Give up? It's number (3).
-There's a full moon out tonight. Go out and try it.

Either he didn't try it, or he forgot to close one eye. :-)

I was a little worried about that statement when I heard it on the show,
especially since the context implied that he tried it only shortly after
the burn to leave LEO and head toward the moon. Here's a transcription
from the show:

"I can recall vividly how quickly the Earth began to shrink. It got to be
quite small right away. Really, it was sort of an unusual feeling.
You could actually put your thumb up to the window, and hide the Earth
behind your thumb."

(The accompanying video shows the astronauts bare-handed.) Even at the
distance of the moon, covering the Earth with your thumb at arm's length
would be very marginal, unless you have unusually large thumbs (Lovell
doesn't).

I finally decided that he hadn't necessarily had his arm fully extended.
(Remember, the Apollo capsule was very cramped.) Lovell didn't say anything
on the show about having his arm fully extended, and in fact on the show
he held his thumb up only a little more than a foot in front of his face.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

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From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
Subject: Astronauts and Vacuum
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:18:57 GMT

1) With respect to blood boiling

        No.  Body temperature is 37 C.  At this temperature, the vapor
pressure of water is about 47 mm Hg.  Typical minimum blood pressure is
higher than this.

2) With repsect to lungs freezing

        No, on the short term.  Surface liquid/mucous in the lungs would
evaporate, cooling the tissue as it does.  The surface layer however is
constantly warmed by the tissue not at the surface, and while it gets cold it
won't immediately freeze.  This is why your face does not freeze when you go
skiing.


--
Bruce Dunn    Vancouver, Canada   Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Subject: Re: Space suit research???
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:07:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.232320.4521@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> stanczyk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (STANCZYK MICHAEL B) writes:
>With all the talk about US space suits being at 5 psi and pure O2 I was 
>wondering what the current state of research is in space suits using
>1 atm and normal air?

Non-existant: A two-gas system would be enough trouble that no one
is looking into it. As for 1 atm, it really isn't necessary: At 8.5
psi, you don't have problems with pre-breathing or the bends anymore.
High pressures do, however, usually limit the mobility/flexability of
a suit. The current (unfunded) goal is for a 8.5 psi "no pre-breath"
pure-oxygen suit. One of the proposed designs (the Ames Hard Suit)
doesn't suffer at high pressures, so in theory it could go all
the way up to one atmosphere (although this isn't currently 
planned for...)

                                              Frank Crary
                                              CU Boulder

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From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
Subject: Re: oxygen atmospheres
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:38:26 GMT


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From: dave@lynx.mn.org (David Messer)
Subject: Re: getting hit by a comet
Organization: Lynx Data Systems
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 05:19:46 GMT

In article <720606779.AA05314@csource.oz.au> Mal.Logan@f546.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Mal Logan) writes:
 >I personally couldn't think of a better way to get rid of all our nukes - aim
 >it at the comet -

Right.  Then we get hit by a radioactive comet.  Some improvement. :)
-- 
It's not my fault!                   | David Messer       dave@lynx.mn.org -or-
    I voted for Andre Marrou.        | Lynx Data Systems  ..!tcnet!lynxds!dave
From: greason@ptdcs2.intel.com (Jeff Greason ~)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Slush Hydrogen
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:21:39 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon

We had an earlier problem posting news, so this may be a repeat post
in some locations.

What exactly is "slush hydrogen?"  I know it is planned for NASP use, and
I believe it is supposed to be a liquid hydrogen alternative with higher
energy density per liter (which would certainly be nice).

However, my CRC claims that solid frozen hydrogen has essentially the same
density as liquid hydrogen.  I has always assumed that "slush" hydrogen
was a mixture of frozen and liquid hydrogen, but this would seem to rule
that out.  

So, just what is "slush" hydrogen?  And what is it's density??   And,
if anyone knows, what is the cost to produce it?  Response by email or
post is fine

Disclaimer:  All opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect the 
     position of Intel, Portland State University, or Zippy the Pinhead.  
============================================================================
Jeff Greason                  "You lock the door ... And throw away the key.
  <greason@ptdcs2.intel.com>   There's someone in my head, but it's not me."
                         				-- Pink Floyd
Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.sci.planetary
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:10:14 GMT

Carl J Lydick (carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU) wrote:
> In article <1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
> =From article <1992Nov11.005151.15358@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, by jenkins@fritz (Steve Jenkins):
> => 
> => Oxygen, like many gases, has narcotic effects at very high pressures,
> => such as in deep-sea diving.  It can cause blindness in newborns
> => 
> =
> =Yes to blindness in newborns, but it is the *nitrogen* that has the narcotic
> =effect in deep sea diving -- hence the use of helium for the really really
> =deep dives.
> 
> If oxygen at high pressures DIDN'T cause the bad effects, why bother mixing it
> with helium?  Yes, nitrogen has narcotic effects at high pressure, but so does
> oxygen.

Oxygen at, say, 5 atm. pressure strikes me as a very unhealthy gas to
breathe.  Even a few atm., as we might have used in a bomb calorimeter,
will consume anything combustible (lung linings etc.) with the slightest
encouragement.  If you're going to breathe high pressure gas for deep
diving purposes, you need an inert filler to add to the standard partial
pressure of oxygen.

--
||------------------------------------------------------------------------
||Dave Jones (dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com)|Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY  |
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Man in space ... 
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 18:27:58 GMT

Dave Jones (dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com) wrote:
> 
> Moderate ventilation might be a good idea for fully saturating the blood
> with O2.  Beyond that you risk lowering blood pH to the point where you
> impair your ability to function.

<ahem>  Make that raising blood pH.  Where do I hand in my Chem. degree?
> 
> --
> ||------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ||Dave Jones (dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com)|Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY  |

Note on underwater record holders: they need to concentrate on not needing
to breathe (hence the hyperventilation to suppress the reflex) and cutting
O2 demand (inactivity, water at blood temperature, self-control etc.
Xref: sparky sci.space:15777 alt.conspiracy:12133
From: gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:25:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: baby.GNB.92Nov12102535
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia

>>>>> On Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:42:20 GMT, jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins) said:

Josh> Did you know that fully _half_ of all babies are born within one
Josh> week of a full Moon!  No kidding.

And what is worse, half of those babies born within a week of a full
moon have below-average intelligence!

Obviously, the radiation from the alien artifact that is holding the
moon up is affecting them.  
--
Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
``There is Faith, Hope and Charity.  But greater than these is Banking.'' - 1492
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: sl25@cus.cam.ac.uk (Steve Linton)
Subject: Terraforming
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:03:17 GMT

I heard a fascinating talk a few months ago about terraforming Mars. The speaker
favoured what he called the `world-house' approach. The idea of this is to cover
large parts (eventually all) of Mars at an altitude of about 1000ft with a
plastic sheet, designed to be held up by the pressure of a suitable atmosphere
below, to exert a greenhouse effect that would warm the surface, and to keep out
harmful UV. 

This drastically cuts down the amount of gas needed to get a sensible atmosphere
at the surface, while having very little effect on the usability of the resulting
planet.
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From: soc1070                         
Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.015030.8065@ee.ubc.ca>, davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson) writes...
>In article <1992Nov9.180901@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov> giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov9.192439.1354@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W.
>>Sherzer) writes:
>>
>>|> >* A livable atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, not oxygen.
>>|> 
>>|> Which comes as a rude suprise to the astronaust who lived
>>|> weeks on end on pure oxygen.
>>                   ^^^^ ^^^^^^
>>
>>I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with either party, but I want to point
>>out that
>>this can't possibly be correct.  The oxygen had to be diluted with
>>something.
>>They would have died otherwise.
>>
>>Louis Giglio
>>Severe Storms Branch
>>NASA/GSFC
> 
> 
>Suffice it to say that Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts worked in a
>5 psi pure O2 environment.  This simplified the environmental control system
>and eliminated the need to purge N2 prior to EVA.  
> 
>Didn't Skylab add a small amount of nitrogen to the mixture in an effort to
>reduce the fire hazard and improve the acoustics?  Perhaps someone can fill
>in the details.
> 
>--
> 
>Dave Michelson
>davem@ee.ubc.ca 

After the Apollo 1 fire, I believe that some amount of Nitrogen was added
to the capsule's atmosphere, and the pressure was brought up from 3 to 5 
psi. However, in the suits for sure and maybe in the LM, it was all pure 
oxygen.


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From: Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu  (Roger Wilfong)
Subject: Re: Coverup - gravity doesn't exist?
News-Software: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0
Organization: UofM Hospitals
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:03:00 GMT

In Article <BxAqKv.FMy.1@cs.cmu.edu> "roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)" says:
> 
> -From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
> -Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
> -Date: 5 Nov 92 18:24:25 GMT
> -Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
> 
> -Ah, but have you personally verified Newton's Law of Gravitation?  After
> -all, who do you think started this whole conspiracy?  Can any of us say
> -that we really knew Isaac Newton?  
> 
> *I* haven't, but my roommate in college did. He was a pretty honest fellow,
> so I expect he was telling the truth about the results.
> 
> There's an apple tree on the NIST grounds that's a direct descendant of the 
> tree Isaac Newton was sitting under when he thought up the laws of gravitation.
> I suppose we could set up a video camera and determine whether there's 
> anything unusual about the trajectory of the apples falling from that 
> particular tree. If they just float in midair or gently drift to the ground,
> then there's reason to suspect that Isaac made the whole thing up.
> 
> :-)
> 
  
There's always Alway's Speculation on Physical Laws.  
  
   "Until a physical law is discovered, compliance is not mandatory."  
  
It's kind of like "if a tree fell in the woods ...".  As applied to gravity, 
Alway's Speculation is that before Newton, objects fell because they wanted 
too (but when no one was looking, they sometimes fell up) - after Newton, 
objects were required to fall under force of law (a force much greater than 
gravity).
:-)
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From: kentm@jec324.its.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent)
Subject: Re: Metric again
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: sci
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:34:07 GMT

If I remember the press release correctly, NASA is now providing metric
equivalents in parentheses after the standard British units.  (Someone ought
to tell the PR people about precision in numbers when they do the conversion.)
In about a year or two, NASA will switch to providing standard metric units
with the British units in parantheses.  Finally, after a few years the British
units will be dropped entirely.

I believe, also, that all new starts after 01 Oct 93 must be in metric.

As for SSF, there was considerable debate about two years back about whether
to convert it to an all-metric station.  The cost -- in the tens of millions
of dollars -- was deemed too great.  SSF is not metric.

Mike

-- 
Michael Kent                                   kentm@rpi.edu
McDonnell Douglas                              Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tute Screwed Aero Class of '92                              Apple II Forever !!
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Low-pressure O2 atmosphere
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:41:45 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <BxJB55.KC2.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
>One of the concerns of the Apollo program was that lunar materials might
>ignite in the oxygen atmosphere of the Lunar Module...
>It could be that most of the materials are too thoroughly oxidized
>to be particularly flammable...

As on Earth, most of the lunar materials are oxides, which are definitely
completely nonflammable.  (Well, in a fluorine atmosphere I guess they'd
burn, but...)

>... Here's the composition for the Apollo 11 site: SiO2 (42.04%),
>TiO2 (7.48%), Al2O3 (13.92%), FeO (15.74%), MgO (7.90%), CaO (12.01%), 
>Na2O (0.44%), K2O (0.14%), P2O5 (0.12%), MnO (0.21%), Cr2O3 (0.30%).
>(There are also tables for overall highland and maria composition.) Does
>anything in there sound like it would be flammable...

Note, straight oxides.  One or two of them could add a bit more oxygen,
but overall this is *not* a flammable mixture.  Some of them would react
a bit with atmospheric water vapor to form hydroxides.
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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From: mbobrowsky@scivax.stsci.edu
Subject: Where are Pioneer and Voyager Headed?
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:38:58 GMT


A student asked me what direction the Pioneer and
Voyager spacecraft are headed.  I had no idea but
I said I'd try to find out.  Does anyone have an
approximate RA and Dec for the asymptote of the
trajectories of any of the four spacecraft that
are beyond Pluto's orbit? 

			Thank you,

			Matt
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