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- From: leech@mahler.cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,news.answers
- Subject: Diffs to sci.space/sci.astro Frequently Asked Questions
- Supersedes: <diffs_723318039@cs.unc.edu>
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- Date: 6 Jan 1993 01:49:35 GMT
- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- Archive-name: space/diff
-
- DIFFS SINCE LAST FAQ POSTING (IN POSTING ORDER)
-
- (These are hand-edited context diffs; do not attempt to use them to patch
- old copies of the FAQ).
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.intro
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15708 Tue Jan 5 20:26:38 1993
- --- FAQ.intro Tue Jan 5 20:26:17 1993
- ***************
- *** 100,105 ****
- --- 100,106 ----
- National Space Science Data Center
- Space And Planetary Image Facility
- Space Telescope Science Institute Electronic Info. Service
- + Starcat
- Astronomical Databases
- Astronomy Programs
- Orbital Element Sets
- ***************
- *** 123,128 ****
- --- 124,130 ----
- Careers in the space industry
- DC-X single-stage to orbit (SSTO) program
- LLNL "great exploration"
- + Lunar Prospector
- Lunar science and activities
- Spacecraft models
- Rocket propulsion
- ***************
- *** 217,222 ****
- --- 219,225 ----
- track of are:
-
- 0004847546@mcimail.com (Francis Reddy) - map projections
- + ad038@yfn.ysu.edu (Steven Fisk) - publication refs.
- akerman@bill.phy.queensu.CA (Richard Akerman) - crater diameters
- alweigel@athena.mit.edu (Lisa Weigel) - SEDS info
- aoab314@emx.utexas.edu (Srinivas Bettadpur) - tides
- ***************
- *** 238,243 ****
- --- 241,247 ----
- eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder) - Saturn V plans, SRBs
- eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) - introduction,
- NASA contact info, started FAQ postings
- + french@isu.isunet.edu (Patrick M. French) - space group contact info
- g@telesoft.com (Gary Morris) - amateur radio info
- gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz) - N-body calculations,
- orbital dynamics
- ***************
- *** 258,268 ****
- --- 262,275 ----
- leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech) - crater diameters
- lfa@vielle.cray.com (Lou Adornato) - orbital dynamics
- maury.markowitz@egsgate.fidonet.org (Maury Markowitz) - propulsion
- + max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis) - equations
- mbellon@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM - N-body calculations
- mcconley@phoenix.Princeton.edu (Marc Wayne Mcconley) - space careers
- msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) - Mariner 1 info.
- mwm@cmu.edu (Mark Maimone) - SPACE Digest
- nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Dr. Nick Watkins) - models, spysats
- + ohainaut@eso.org (Olivier R. Hainaut) - publishers, STARCAT
- + oneil@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Graham O'Neil) - Lunar Prospector
- opus@pioneer.unm.edu (Colby Kraybill) - SPIF data archive
- panama@cup.portal.com (Kenneth W Durham) - cometary orbits, IAU
- paul.blase@nss.fidonet.org (Paul Blase) - propulsion
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.data
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15718 Tue Jan 5 20:26:41 1993
- --- FAQ.data Tue Jan 5 20:26:16 1993
- ***************
- *** 108,114 ****
- You can dial in at (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud, 8
- bits, no parity, 1 stop bit), or telnet to spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
- (128.158.13.250, also known as xsl.msfc.nasa.gov) if you're on the
- ! Internet. Anonymous FTP capability will be offered in the future.
-
- Most of this information is also available from the Ames server in
- directory SPACELINK.
- --- 108,114 ----
- You can dial in at (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud, 8
- bits, no parity, 1 stop bit), or telnet to spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
- (128.158.13.250, also known as xsl.msfc.nasa.gov) if you're on the
- ! Internet. Anonymous FTP capability (password guest) is now available.
-
- Most of this information is also available from the Ames server in
- directory SPACELINK.
- ***************
- *** 188,193 ****
- --- 188,212 ----
- observers and proposers. Get the top level README file to begin with.
- Contact Pete Reppert (reppert@stsci.edu) or Chris O'Dea
- (odea@stsci.edu).
- +
- +
- + STARCAT
- +
- + The Space Telescope European Coordination Facility, at ESO/Garching
- + provides on-line access to a huge astronomical database, featuring
- +
- + - Observation log files of several satellites/telescopes
- + (IUE,IRAS,HST,NTT...).
- + - Spectra and images (IUE, HST).
- + - Most of the astronomical catalogues (SAO, HR, NGC, PPM, IRAS,
- + Veron, GSC and many others, more than 50) in a very convenient
- + way (give center+radius+kind of objects, and you get the
- + corresponding files!).
- +
- + Log on as ``starcat'' (no password) on node stesis.hq.eso.org
- + (134.171.8.100) or on STESIS (DECnet). The files created can be
- + retreived by FTP. Contact: Benoit Pirenne, bpirenne@eso.org (phone +49
- + 89 320 06 433) at ST-ECF
-
-
- ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES
-
- ===================================================================
- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.references
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15728 Tue Jan 5 20:26:44 1993
- --- FAQ.references Tue Jan 5 20:26:20 1993
- --- 26,40 ----
- Aviation and Space, 1962-1990
- Space and Related Titles
-
- ! European Southern Observatory
- ! Information and Photographic Service
- ! Dr R.M. West
- ! Karl Scharzschild Strasse 2
- ! D-8046 Garching bei Munchen
- ! FRG
-
- ! Slide sets, posters, photographs, conference proceedings.
-
- Finley Holiday Film Corporation
- 12607 East Philadelphia Street
- Whittier, California 90601
- ***************
- --- 169,210 ----
- address for ILC.
-
-
- + LUNAR PROSPECTOR
- +
- + Lunar Exploration Inc. (LEI) is a non-profit corporation working on a
- + privately funded lunar polar orbiter. Lunar Prospector is designed to
- + perform a geochemical survey and search for frozen volatiles at the
- + poles. A set of reference files describing the project is available in
- +
- + ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/LEI/*
- +
- +
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.constants
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15733 Tue Jan 5 20:26:45 1993
- --- FAQ.constants Tue Jan 5 20:26:15 1993
- ***************
- *** 37,42 ****
- --- 37,46 ----
- EQUATIONS
-
- Where d is distance, v is velocity, a is acceleration, t is time.
- + Additional more specialized equations are available from:
- +
- + ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/MoreEquations
- +
-
- For constant acceleration
- d = d0 + vt + .5at^2
-
- ===================================================================
- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.probe
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15753 Tue Jan 5 20:26:50 1993
- --- FAQ.probe Tue Jan 5 20:26:19 1993
- ***************
- *** 365,372 ****
-
- During the approach, Sakigake observed the geotail. Some geotail
- passages will be scheduled in some years hence. The second Earth-swingby
- ! will be on June 14, 1993 (at 40 Re(Earth's radius)), and the third
- October 28, 1994 (at 86 Re).
-
-
- PLANETARY MISSION REFERENCES
- --- 365,400 ----
-
- During the approach, Sakigake observed the geotail. Some geotail
- passages will be scheduled in some years hence. The second Earth-swingby
- ! will be on June 14, 1993 (at 40 Re (Earth's radius)), and the third
- October 28, 1994 (at 86 Re).
- +
- +
- + HITEN, a small lunar probe, was launched into Earth orbit on January 24,
- + 1990. The spacecraft was then known as MUSES-A, but was renamed to Hiten
- + once in orbit. The 430 lb probe looped out from Earth and made its first
- + lunary flyby on March 19, where it dropped off its 26 lb midget
- + satellite, HAGOROMO. Japan at this point became the third nation to
- + orbit a satellite around the Moon, joining the Unites States and USSR.
- +
- + The smaller spacecraft, Hagoromo, remained in orbit around the Moon. An
- + apparently broken transistor radio caused the Japanese space scientists
- + to lose track of it. Hagoromo's rocket motor fired on schedule on March
- + 19, but the spacecraft's tracking transmitter failed immediately. The
- + rocket firing of Hagoromo was optically confirmed using the Schmidt
- + camera (105-cm, F3.1) at the Kiso Observatory in Japan.
- +
- + Hiten made multiple lunar flybys at approximately monthly intervals and
- + performed aerobraking experiments using the Earth's atmosphere. Hiten
- + made a close approach to the moon at 22:33 JST (UTC+9h) on February 15,
- + 1992 at the height of 423 km from the moon's surface (35.3N, 9.7E) and
- + fired its propulsion system for about ten minutes to put the craft into
- + lunar orbit. The following is the orbital calculation results after the
- + approach:
- +
- + Apoapsis Altitude: about 49,400 km
- + Periapsis Altitude: about 9,600 km
- + Inclination : 34.7 deg (to ecliptic plane)
- + Period : 4.7 days
-
-
- PLANETARY MISSION REFERENCES
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.controversy
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15763 Tue Jan 5 20:26:53 1993
- --- FAQ.controversy Tue Jan 5 20:26:16 1993
- ***************
- *** 208,216 ****
- sci.astro.
-
- V. DiPeitro and G. Molenaar, *Unusual Martian Surface Features*, Mars
- ! Research, P.O. Box 284, Glen Dale, Maryland, USA, 1982. [Apparently the
- ! first lengthy consideration of the Face published. Does anybody know
- ! what it costs?]
-
- R.R. Pozos, *The Face of Mars*, Chicago Review Press, 1986. [Account of
- an interdisciplinary speculative conference Hoagland organized to
- --- 208,214 ----
- sci.astro.
-
- V. DiPeitro and G. Molenaar, *Unusual Martian Surface Features*, Mars
- ! Research, P.O. Box 284, Glen Dale, Maryland, USA, 1982. $18 by mail.
-
- R.R. Pozos, *The Face of Mars*, Chicago Review Press, 1986. [Account of
- an interdisciplinary speculative conference Hoagland organized to
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.groups
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15768 Tue Jan 5 20:26:54 1993
- --- FAQ.groups Tue Jan 5 20:26:16 1993
- ***************
- *** 46,51 ****
- --- 46,65 ----
-
- No dues information available at present.
-
- + ISU - International Space University. ISU is a non-profit international
- + graduate-level educational institution dedicated to promoting the
- + peaceful exploration and development of space through multi-cultural
- + and multi-disciplinary space education and research. For further
- + information on ISU's summer session program or Permanent Campus
- + activities please send messages to 'information@isu.isunet.edu' or
- + contact the ISU Executive Offices at:
- +
- + International Space University
- + 955 Massachusetts Avenue 7th Floor
- + Cambridge, MA 02139
- + (617)-354-1987 (phone)
- + (617)-354-7666 (fax)
- +
- L-5 Society (defunct). Founded by Keith and Carolyn Henson in 1975 to
- advocate space colonization. Its major success was in preventing US
- participation in the UN "Moon Treaty" in the late 1970s. Merged with
- ***************
- *** 172,177 ****
- --- 186,196 ----
- Boulder, CO 80332-3261
- $18/year US, $24/year international
-
- + ESA - The European Space Agency publishes a variety of periodicals,
- + generally available free of charge. A document describing them in
- + more detail is in the Ames SPACE archive in
- + pub/SPACE/FAQ/ESAPublications.
- +
- Final Frontier (mass-market bimonthly magazine) - history, book reviews,
- general-interest articles (e.g. "The 7 Wonders of the Solar System",
- "Everything you always wanted to know about military space
-
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- diff -t -c -r1.15 FAQ.astronaut
- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a15773 Tue Jan 5 20:26:55 1993
- --- FAQ.astronaut Tue Jan 5 20:26:15 1993
- ***************
- *** 8,20 ****
-
- Q. How do I become an astronaut?
-
- ! A. We will assume you mean a NASA astronaut, since it's probably impossible
- ! for a Westerner to get into the Soviet program, and the other nations
- ! have so few astronauts (and fly even fewer) that you're better off
- ! hoping to win a lottery. Becoming a shuttle pilot requires lots
- ! of fast-jet experience, which means a military flying career; forget
- ! that unless you want to do it anyway. So you want to become a
- ! shuttle "mission specialist".
-
- If you aren't a US citizen, become one; that is a must. After that,
- the crucial thing to remember is that the demand for such jobs vastly
- --- 8,21 ----
-
- Q. How do I become an astronaut?
-
- ! A. We will assume you mean a NASA astronaut, since it's probably
- ! impossible for a non-Russian to get into the cosmonaut corps (paying
- ! passengers are not professional cosmonauts), and the other nations have
- ! so few astronauts (and fly even fewer) that you're better off hoping to
- ! win a lottery. Becoming a shuttle pilot requires lots of fast-jet
- ! experience, which means a military flying career; forget that unless you
- ! want to do it anyway. So you want to become a shuttle "mission
- ! specialist".
-
- If you aren't a US citizen, become one; that is a must. After that,
- the crucial thing to remember is that the demand for such jobs vastly
-