Jim Kingdon wrote:

And are you ready for this - it would be called the JIMO! :-)

The key thing here is "$8 billion".

Hey, that's quite a bargain compared to $87 Billion (for starters) to pull
a deposed despot out of a hole in the ground.


Compare with the RTG powered missions at
http://centauri.larc.nasa.gov/newfrontiers/ for $700 million a pop.

Other links on JIMO:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGON3J5RN1.DTL
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jimo/

Thanks for the links.

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Tony Sivori