Space Forum / Space Science / September 2003

Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington                  September 17, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Carolina Martinez

-> Yesterday Í found a new planet.But today it was gone.
-> What has happened `?
What do you mean? Did you see a bright light in the sky yesterday, that
wasn't there today? Or what?

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Yesterday Í found a new planet.But today it was gone.
What has happened `?

they are there and they will come for you,soon !

Is it possible for a meteor to re-enter in Atmosphere..? Here is my
observation over the weekend with naked eyes...
There was a light streak of Meteor which vanishes and after a small
distance I see the second streak in line with the first one... I could

I know it's stuck, but can Galileo still control it or were the software
routines dumped to make space for the updates?
I have this silly image of the HGA becoming unstuck a second before it's
incinerated :-)

What science data will galileo be able to acquire and send back when it
dives into Jupiter?  I suppose magnetic field measurements, radiation
measurements would be taken and transmitted back.  Will we see the
impact spot, or is it hidden from Earth?  I suppose some info can be

Presumably some amount of ejecta from the earth made its way to the
moon, so would we be able to detect such materials from the earth?
That is, at presumably very low concentrations, would our current
technology allow us to determine the proportion of earth ejecta that

I saw a story on the news that there is a "Watergate of space science
going on" in that graphics artists are colorizing the images from
Hubble to make them more pleasing to the public.  Can anyone confirm
that story?  I would think with spectral data, the colors would be

Is there any good information on the various asteroid families online?
I can only find basic information that there are families at
particular Jovian resonances, but no information on particulars.
Searching only gets me the Trojans and Trans-Neptunians. Years ago, I

They still haven't announced a new launch date.

NASA intend to send the Galileo probe into Jupiter to prevent it
contaminating Europa with micobes it may have carried from Earth.  But
wouldn't the intense radiation around the planet have sterelised it anyway?

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