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Fwd: [Fwd: [OSP] January 15, 2006 - Stardust SRC Reentry Observing Campaign]
by Richard Tenney 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Got this today from Mark Dakins -- don't know if there's anything new here, but thought I'd pass it along just in case... Rich --- Mark Dakins <mdakins(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:34:41 -0800 > From: Mark Dakins <mdakins(a)earthlink.net> > To: retenney(a)yahoo.com > Subject: [Fwd: [OSP] January 15, 2006 - Stardust SRC > Reentry Observing Campaign] > > Rich > > It seems likely to me that you and the slas folk > have already heard of > this, but just in case, pass this along to slas and > uvaa and anbody else > you can think of. It's a little too far away for me > to try to get to > this time of year, but I wish I could. > > > Mark > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: - Fri Dec 23 17:29:24 2005 > X-UIDL: 1ePXQJ7DL3Nl34h0 > X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > Status: U > Return-Path: <osp-bounces(a)tire.patch.com> > Received: from tire.patch.com ([66.93.39.87]) by > mx-mastin.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP > Server) with ESMTP id > 1ePXQJ7DL3Nl34h0 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:05:29 -0500 > (EST) > Received: from tire.patch.com (localhost.localdomain > [127.0.0.1]) by > tire.patch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1746857D2BA; > Fri, 23 Dec 2005 > 17:00:34 -0800 (PST) > X-Original-To: osp(a)tire.patch.com > Delivered-To: osp(a)tire.patch.com > Received: from mail.whiteoaks.com > (bdsl.66.15.94.96.gte.net > [66.15.94.96]) by tire.patch.com (Postfix) with > ESMTP id DA33457D261 for > <osp(a)tire.patch.com>; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:00:32 > -0800 (PST) > Received: from [192.168.2.101] > (bdsl.66.15.94.100.gte.net > [66.15.94.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher > DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 > bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by > mail.whiteoaks.com > (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6BE8F7A for > <osp(a)tire.patch.com>; Fri, 23 Dec > 2005 17:05:21 -0800 (PST) > Message-ID: <43AC9ECF.4050203(a)whiteoaks.com> > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:05:19 -0800 > From: Jane Houston Jones <jane(a)whiteoaks.com> > User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 > (Windows/20041206) > X-Accept-Language: en-us, en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Oregon Star Party <osp(a)tire.patch.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; > format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Subject: [OSP] January 15, 2006 - Stardust SRC > Reentry Observing Campaign > X-BeenThere: osp(a)tire.patch.com > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 > Precedence: list > Reply-To: Oregon Star Party Discussion > <osp(a)tire.patch.com> > List-Id: Oregon Star Party Discussion > <osp.tire.patch.com> > List-Unsubscribe: > <http://tire.patch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osp>, > > <mailto:osp-request@tire.patch.com?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://tire.patch.com/pipermail/osp> > List-Post: <mailto:osp@tire.patch.com> > List-Help: > <mailto:osp-request@tire.patch.com?subject=help> > List-Subscribe: > <http://tire.patch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osp>, > > <mailto:osp-request@tire.patch.com?subject=subscribe> > Sender: osp-bounces(a)tire.patch.com > Errors-To: osp-bounces(a)tire.patch.com > X-ELNK-AV: 0 > X-NAS-Language: English > X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 8.02313E-180; #1: 1 > X-NAS-Classification: 0 > X-NAS-MessageID: 5254 > X-NAS-Validation: > {B8DD470C-8ACE-450C-9DE3-965C3F74A7A5} > > Dear OSP 2005 participants, I thought the most > efficient way to get this > announcments out to amateur astronomers and imagers > in the northwest was > to send it once to this OSP list, and ask you to > pass it on to the > appropriate astronomy clubs. Many of you are in the > Rose City > Astronomers, but you also have all those wonderful > connections with > clubs or club members in OR, WA, ID, NV, UT. I sent > this out myself to > the northern California clubs. I compiled this > information on behalf of > the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC) Observing > Campaign PI, Dr. > Peter Jenniskens. > > Begin announcement > > Amateur observers and the general public may > be able to to view or hear the Stardust reentry on > Jan 15, > 2006 at about 1:56:39 PST (Pacific Standard Time). > > If you live in Northern California, Oregon, > Washington, > Northern Nevada, Southern Idaho or Western Utah you > should be able to see some part of this man made > meteor. > The closer you live to the trajectory, which runs > from > Crescent City California, and then through > Winnemucca and > Elko Nevada, and finally to Western Utah, the higher > in the sky > it will be. > > An airborne and ground observing campaign to test > thermal > protection systems in the fastest reentries since > Apollo and > probe the delivery of organics for life's origin by > measuring > the physical conditions during reentry is underway. > Here is > the mission website: > http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/. > > The Stardust SRC (Sample Return Capsule) Principal > Investigator Dr. Peter Jenniskens has compiled an > informative > entry viewing page. On this page you'll find out > where the best > viewing spots are and also see finder charts for > selected cities. > There is also a registration page for interested > observers, plus > video and digital camera instructions page > explaining what is > required for imagers. Here is that page: > http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/viewingforum.html > > If you are interested in participating, the team is > looking for video, still and telescopic observation > reports. If you > are interested there is an observation form, and a > list of > registered observers will soon be added here: > http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/registrationobserver.html. > > The view from each location will be different, with > the > brightness falling off when the object passes by and > then is > seen from behind. Researchers are interested in > learning how > the light falls off when the capsule passes by. > There is interest > too in viewing the capsule pass in front of the > near-full Moon > through telescopes and, perhaps, see the hot air > wake expand > and move in upper atmosphere winds. > > If you have any questions, please send them to the > SRC > Observing Campaign mailbox which you will find at > the top of > this page: > http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/ > > Jane, on behalf of Dr. Peter Jenniskens > > -- > Jane Houston Jones > Monrovia, CA > 34.2048N 118.1732W, 637.0 feet > http://www.whiteoaks.com > Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSP mailing list > OSP(a)tire.patch.com > http://tire.patch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osp > > Change your list subscription at > http://mail.patch.com/mailman/listinfo/osp#subscribers > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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