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To: SunkenCiv

“where it will repeatedly dive between the giant planet and its innermost rings.”

Jokes aside, I hope the Planets Gravity doesn’t rip the spacecraft apart. That is a close pass.


3 posted on 04/10/2016 12:48:02 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. ...Ermentrude chewed on some more grass and watched....)
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To: moose07

It should be pretty interesting.


4 posted on 04/10/2016 12:59:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: moose07
In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft's finale will be it's plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn.

Fact sheet pdf: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/files/Cassini_Grand_Finale_Fact_Sheet_508.pdf

5 posted on 04/10/2016 1:22:00 PM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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