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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Daniel Burstein) writes: |
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>A short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention |
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>about how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just |
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>managed to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon. |
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The Japanese spacecraft, Hiten, crashed on the Moon last weekend. For the |
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past three years it has made several lunar flybys and even did some |
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aerobraking experiments with Earth's atmosphere. It was placed in lunar |
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orbit in February 1992, and I guess it finally ran out of fuel and was |
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unable to maintain its orbit around the Moon. |
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/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected] |
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