Oh well, its only money, at least an astronuats life does'nt depend on it. Was that Hyatt or Hiatt, I will add that I said David Poe is at Bryce, it is Kevin Poe.

Erik I was reading in Astronomy Magazine this morning about this lander. It

made me even more nervous. They built this lander out of backup parts from the polar lander. The person that wrote the article stated that it will be a very nervous landing since they think that they fixed all the problems but they could have missed something.

One other thing that was in the same edition of Astronomy. Two of our friends were mentioned in Glenn Chaple's column. He was talking about Chaple's Arc, which he described in detail last year. He mentioned that he had done research and had found that several people had independently discovered the same asterism. According to the article, Kim Hiatt discovered it as a ring of stars. The other side of the ring was not visible using the small telescope that Glenn used. Kim had Brent Watson look at it and Brent included the Fairy Ring in his book. He also passed on Brent's web page so that people can get his book.

I always enjoy seeing someone I know recognized in the magazines.

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+david.dunn=albertsons.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+david.dunn=albertsons.com@mailman.xmissio n.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:30 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Phoenix Mars lander

Patrick, (or anyone in the know) is the Phoenix lander a single craft, or is NASA sending a pair of them to hedge their bet? I must admit that a parachute/retrorocket soft landing makes me nervous, based on past history. The airbag method seems to have a much better track record.

Also I have questions on the retros possibly affecting some of the chemical/biological test results.

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