A Belgian newspaper of all things. I'll manage a few copies I think.

Will check asap.

Nico

If you can't get any copies from the stores, and if you live anywhere close to the newspaper's head office, they will probably have some copies there

born out of an international forum, the image seems now to be travelling the world!

I sincerely hope they credited you folks.

Hi Nico, All

Wow, Thats our submision to APOD from Monday

General, thank you for posting so clearly

I would also really love an original or copy of that page if possible and will also pay postage.

please contact me at

ken@princetonastronomy.org

thank you

ken

It seems they give a generic credit to Nasa only...

Looks like it wouldn't be a bad idea if I made a call to the paper.

Nico.

10 copies just confirmed.

So I guess that's 3-4 for Doug, 1 for me and 5-6 left for; Marco (dilo), Bernhard (nirgal) and Kenneth (mars loon).

Nico

You're a legend

like the muscles from Brussels?

you certainly know how to walk and run on Mars.

looks like its in color too?

thank you

*And* an article about Hayabusa meeting the bodemmonster (presumably a relative of the Great Galactic Ghoul) on planetoide onzeker!

That explains *everything*!

Bob Shaw

Bob,

I think you should ask Santa Claus for a good dictionary

"Return Hayabusa with asteroid soil sample uncertain"



P.S. : I was unable to get any more copies of the newspaper.
So I'm pleased to see Nico got some.

Or wait until I come along:

The caption under the photo says:

Self portrait

The Mars rover Spirit made this self portait on top of the hill "Husband Hill" on Mars. The image has been assembled from several seperate images using a computer. The horizon appears to be round because of the wide angel perspective. Of Spirit itself it are mostly the solarcells that can be seen.

Article about Hayabusa:

Return Hayabusa with soil sample from astroid is unsure.

Spaceflight

The probe that took a sample of an astroid perhaps can't return to Earth.

The mission of the Japanese unmanned space probe Hayabusa to astroid Itokawa seems to be a string of defects and technical malfunctions. (De Standaard 24 November). But despite the dificulties the craft succeeded in achieving the most important goal of the mission: It took a soil from an astroid for the first time. At the moment however it's unsure if the precious cargo can be returned to Earth, because the probe is suffering from engine troubles. As the probe ascended from the astroid's surface last Saturday, after it collected the soil sample, a leak ocurred in one of it's two the engines. As this happend both engines were shutdown and the onboard computer put the probe in a "safe mode", in which as much systems as possible are shutdown. However, this lead to Hayabusa being unable to control it's attitude in space and the probe began to tumble. This makes communicating with Earth difficult because the antenna can't be pointed anymore. Tuesday the flightcontrollers succeeded in restoring communications with the probe, but they didn't succeed in restoring the probe's orientation. To do that they counted on the non leaking engine, but for unkown reason it didn't operate. Assuming that at least one of the engine is working Hayabusa can only return to Earth after the orientation has been restored. Yesterday the flightcontrollers were still trying to regain control of the probe. Hayabusa has to start the return journey early December the latest. Otherwise it will have to wait another three years before the Earth and the astroid are in the right position again, and it's quite unsure if the probe will last that long.

Thank you very much, DEChengst!



Hey, considering also other processing operations, we used at least 3 computers!

But I *like* the idea of the bodemmonster being thye Great Galactic Ghoul's second cousin!

Bob Shaw