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Fwd: Stardust landed succesfully, Titan flyby too!
by Richard Tenney 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

--- jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:32:05 -0800 (PST) > From: jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov > To: retenney(a)yahoo.com > Subject: Stardust landed succesfully, Titan flyby > too! > --------------------------------- Hello Richard Tenney, Hi everybody, I've been watching the Stardust entry on NASA TV for the past 2 hours. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html jas all the news. Here's a recap of the successful landing. Times in Pacific time. January 14, 2006 9:57 p.m. radar (Nasa TV) show Stardust releases the Sample Return Capsule on schedule. January 15, 20061:57 a.m. Capsule enters Earth atmosphere. Track nearly over Oregon now and Nevada. And an image of capsule is on NASA TV. Several amateur astronomers report visual sightings in Nevada and northern California. OMSI museum in Portland Oregon is packed at 1 a.m. Wow! Did anyone else try to watch? Hold an event? If so report your observations here: http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/registrationobservations.html 2:00 a.m. first drougue parachute opened on schedule 2:05 a.m. main parachute deployed on schedule 2:12 a.m. capsule landed helicopter "Vertigo" picked up the capsule signal on the ground 2:50 a.m.. helicopter "Vertigo" has located the parachute 2:54 Vertigo crew has located the capsule and landed 3:00 - 3:15 a.m. additional helicopters are on the ground or on the way to the capsule.3:25 a.m. Accordint to NASA TV, the capsule took a few bounces, and is being photographed right now. Next news - a press conference will be at 6 a.m. Pacific time or check the JPL or Stardust websites for the latest http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Also later today, only 21 days since the last Titan encounter, at 12:49 pacific time January 15, Cassini makes its 10th flyby of Saturn's largest moon. Follow the news here http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm good night everybody! Jane Jane Houston Jones Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205 Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone - 818-393-6435 Fax - 818-393-4495 jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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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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