It looks like the press conference has been moved to 12:30pm our time. Hopefully, some science can still be salvaged. But, it was my understanding they wanted to snag it with the helicopter - because they thought a ground landing with the parasail would be "too hard". The images provided by the helicopter seemed to show that the heat shield had separated and the sample section had opened - upon impact.

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Gibson [mailto:jimgibson00@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:58 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Bowling ball drop.

I saw the spot on the map. It deffinatley landed on Dugway just north of Granet Mountain. It was barried about half way up. I saw a chopper view when they first found it. It made a pretty good splat. The splash made a pretty uniform pattern. I heard that the wafer (sp?) may be broken but they can still analyize the piceces. There is a lot of talk floating around so I don't know how authoritative that was since I heard it shortly after landing.

jg

James Helsby <cyanics@xmission.com> wrote: Approximate coords:

40 deg. 7 min. 40 sec 113 deg. 30 min 29 sec

JH

David Dunn wrote:

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It looks like we wont have to do the bowling ball drop. Genisis made a good crater sample.

Does anyone on the list know where it landed?

I wonder if they will be able to salvage any science from it.

Thanks, David Dunn 801-961-3253

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