Pioneer Spacecraft First Into The Asteroid Belt |
Pioneer Spacecraft First Into The Asteroid Belt |
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Jan 10 2006, 05:35 PM
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Launch Pioneer 10 ( 02 March 1972 )
Pioneer 10 entered the Asteroidbelt in July 1972 and emerged in February 1973 ... passing safely as we know ... during 7 months ... Jupiter Flyby in November 1973. So we had Jovian flyby 7 months after passing Asteroid belt! Launch Pioneer 11 ( 05 April 1973 ) Pioneer 11 entered the Asteroidbelt in March 1974 and emerged in ??? ( September 1974 ) ... encountered Jupiter in December 1974. Already 3 months after it cleared the Asteroid belt ? ( went on for flyby of Saturn in August 1979 ) Does someone have exact dates for both Pioneers' milestones ? Best regards, Philip |
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May 30 2006, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
You know that "model" of the Pioneer 10-11 probe hanging in the main
gallery of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.? It isn't a model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_H -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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