Space Forum / Space Science / June 2006

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMN1GL8IOE_0.html
Lunar West Side Story - the SMART-1 Movie
European Space Agency
26 June 2006

Back from Africa, where I was a secular missionary  in the Kayon
Ghozi's leprosary (Burundi) because of health reasons, I wrote these
lucky Flashes of mine, which got a resounding success ,on Turin's
HOLY SHROUD.

I emailed the message below to the MIT Mars mission club a week and a half
ago; I have given their link below and their email address is in the link.
I have as yet received no response, perhaps since school is out for the
summer.  Perhaps the readers of this newsgroup would be in a ...

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39386
First Week of Routine Phase
European Space Agency
Venus Express

http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2006/060622.asp
For Immediate Release
June 22, 2006
Media Contacts

http://ciclops.org/index.php?flash=0
Carolyn Porco
Cassini Imaging Team Leader
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute

-> Mars (Richmond, VA: Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1983, p. 1-12).  I used the
-> "clock" to obtain approximate values of the spacecraft's transfer angle
-> given a proposed departure date and trip time (a 200 day trip will yield a
-> 180 degree transfer angle during an Earth-Mars ...

-> Comparing the cummulative mass of satellites to the mass of their
-> central gas giants produces a constant ratio of 0.0001 which is a
That works pretty well for Jupiter, Satuen, and Uranus, but it's
nowhere near right for Neptune. Triton, alone, has a mass about 0.0014

Was the Moon in a close Earth orbit essential in preventing a runaway
greenhouse effect like we see on Venus. The Earth was much more
volcanically active in it's youth and would have put out much more CO2
and other greenhouse gases. Did the Moon siphon off much of the Earth's

Can the shuttle fly like a plane? I mean take off from a runway, fly around
and land again. Could you fly it, for instance, from California to Florida?
With the engines it has and onboard fuel capacity I suspect it could but
don't know why they piggy back it on a 747 to move it.

One thing that I always wondered about space flight is why most
agencies (NASA, etc.) do not use a more efficient way of lifting into
space. The vertical rocket takeoff seems to use so much energy and does
not take advantage of the physics of regular flight. Why would one not

Someone please tell me why spacecraft are designed to reenter the earth's
atmosphere at high speed. Isn't there some way to come down slowly,
so the heat shields wouldn't be needed? Has anyone modeled the idea of
unfolding some large wings to add a lot of surface area, or using

Does anybody know the name of the mars-sized planet that supposedly hit the
earth and created the moon was called?  I was watching Natural World just
now and it said the name of the planet - it began with V or F i think.
Thanks for any help.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20060615a/Sol_825B_Alam
ogordo_Creek-B849R1_br2.jpg
That tear drop shaped stone in the upper right,
it has a circular hole. Obviously a fire-starter!
Norm

Does anyone have any personal theorys on what exactly the dark matter
of the universe is?