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Genesis set to return to Earth
Washington Times ^
| Tuesday, September 7, 2004
| By Philip Chien
Posted on 09/06/2004 10:58:02 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
By Philip Chien
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 7, 2004
The Genesis spacecraft is returning home tomorrow after a whirlwind tour a million miles from Earth.
Launched in August 2001, Genesis was sent on a boomerang-shaped path a million miles away. The path was chosen to put Genesis outside the Earth's immediate neighborhood in a gravitationally stable place where the spacecraft could be "parked" for a couple of years.
Genesis has five super-pure panels made of aluminum, gold, silicon, synthetic diamond and other materials.
The panels collected just 10 micrograms of particles from the solar wind -- equivalent to about seven grains of salt. But the particles include every natural element except hydrogen and helium.
"What we've been missing is the starting point -- the composition of the sun. This is what Genesis gives us," said NASA scientist David Lindstrom.
Tomorrow, Genesis will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere over Salem, Ore., and travel across Idaho and into northern Utah in 96 seconds.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genesisspacecapsule; nasa; space
To: JohnHuang2
Uh oh. Isn't this how zombies get started??? Contamination from outer space????
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posted on
09/06/2004 11:02:06 PM PDT
by
flashbunny
(Hey - click on my name to see an anti-kerry bumper sticker! Do it! Now!!!)
To: JohnHuang2
The panels collected just 10 micrograms of particles from the solar wind
I love NASA. They send satellites to outer space to collect dust. (My grandmother's house is full of things that collect dust...)
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:22:33 AM PDT
by
NationSoConceived
("Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but wipes it out in the most effectual manner." - M.B.E.)
To: flashbunny
Zombies are Bush's Fault!
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:50:57 AM PDT
by
Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
(Politically, Saudi Arabia is 18th century France with 16th Century Spain's flow of gold and no art)
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
I thought talking openly about Genesis was prohibited by Starfleet Command?
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:12:10 AM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Democrats and Liberals suffer from MSD-Massive Spending Disorder)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Aren't they worried about Kahn Noonian Singh stealing it?
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:21:20 AM PDT
by
Snake65
(Osama Bin Decomposing)
To: JohnHuang2
Is that with or without Phil Collins?
To: Larry Lucido
Yeah, I thought they were reuniting.
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:26:25 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: flashbunny; JohnHuang2
It does remind me of the beginning of The Andromeda Strain...
9
posted on
09/07/2004 4:28:05 AM PDT
by
beezdotcom
(This was my 1000th post...ah, my frivolously misspent youth!)
To: Snake65; WestVirginiaRebel
10
posted on
09/07/2004 4:31:10 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
(Only 5 cents a troll? Must be too many of the varmints around here...)
To: Snake65; WestVirginiaRebel
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:31:56 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
(Only 5 cents a troll? Must be too many of the varmints around here...)
To: All
(double-dang posting!)
Sorry, all.
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:32:44 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
(Only 5 cents a troll? Must be too many of the varmints around here...)
To: JohnHuang2
Literally.
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posted on
09/07/2004 4:38:26 AM PDT
by
Jhensy
To: Jonah Hex
Yea, but don't you have to be over 18 to access that section?
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:47:28 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Truth goes through three stages, ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident)
To: JohnHuang2
"It will be ours!"
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