| In article <C5Kys1.C6r@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes: |
| >A short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention |
| >about how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just |
| >managed to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon. |
| The Japanese spacecraft, Hiten, crashed on the Moon last weekend. For the |
| past three years it has made several lunar flybys and even did some |
| aerobraking experiments with Earth's atmosphere. It was placed in lunar |
| orbit in February 1992, and I guess it finally ran out of fuel and was |
| unable to maintain its orbit around the Moon. |
| /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov |
| | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | |
| ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand |
| /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and |
| |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable. |
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