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To: TheOldLady

Eh, five years is nothing. The first two UV spectrographs we built here will take 10 (Rosetta) and 9.5 years (New Horizons) to reach their targets. LRO was the speed demon needing a whopping 4 days to reach the Moon.


15 posted on 08/09/2011 3:25:05 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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To: MikeD

The blurb says that Juno will reach Jupiter in 2016 and begin probing the planet and transmitting data. That’s all I meant.

The cat’s impatient, not me, LOL!

P.S. Five years may be nothing to you, but it could be the rest of my life. I am an old lady.


16 posted on 08/09/2011 3:43:31 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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