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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Galileo's Atmospheric Probe Passes Health Checks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:59:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.170442.1866@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec15.213937.21958@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <BzD1zp.9Lo@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- I wrote:
- >>... I also have some knowledge of the
- >>accellerations experienced by the Sprint system and HIBEX experiments...
- >>none of which came CLOSE to 350G!
- >
- >Smart artillery shells experience thousands of gees at launch. A few
- >hundred is no big deal...
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- Note, by the way, that Galileo's 350 isn't even a record. The steepest
- of the trajectories used for the Pioneer-Venus probe mission exposed one
- of the small probes to 458.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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