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[jsheff]

The January PSG meeting is now in progress and the tour for extended mission is scheduled to be chosen on Thursday (Feb 1). There are 13 tours being considered OF4a, PF-3, PF-4, PF-6, PF-6h9, PF-7, PF-8, PF-9, PF-10, PF-11, PF-12 & PF-13 --plus 'tweaks' on these tours e.g. there is a PF-8a, PF-9a

S-S-So ... has anybody heard anything?

- John Sheff
Cambridge, MA

[john_s]

The winner is (drum roll please) PF6h9. Officially adopted on Thursday. I haven't sifted through all the details yet, but from my parochial point of view, I know it includes seven close Enceladus flybys, so that's good. Most of the science groups (Titan, Rings, Magnetosphere, Saturn, and Icy Satellites) were pretty happy with this choice- it packs in an amazing number of science opportunities.

John.

[TritonAntares]

Hi,
as Solar System Viewer isn't capable of simulating views of the extented mission so far,
is anybody here able to create some views of Iapetus of the following nontargeted encounters with Celestia or another simulation?

2009 07 05 05:00:00 - 2,089,800 km
(low phase, sub-saturn hemisphere, eastern Cassini regio, Snowman craters)

2009 09 11 19:47:00 - 1,161,000 km
(high-phase leading hemisphere, extreme eastern Cassini Regio, western snowman crater)

2009 12 01 15:07:00 - 1,377,900 km
(moderate phase (~100 deg.) , southern leading hemisphere, extreme eastern Cassini Regio, western Snowman crater,western Terra Incognita)

2010 02 21 10:00:00 - 1,469,800 km
(moderate phase (~50 deg.), southern sub-saturn hemisphere, view of eastern Cassini Regio, Snowman craters, Terra Incognita)

2010 05 08 16:30:00 - 1,234,800 km
(high phase (~110 deg.), southern leading hemisphere, crescent view of extreme eastern Cassini Regio and western Terra Incognita)

THX & Bye.