[UPDATE] Cassini is now the first captured object from Earth around Saturn!

....While the SOI burn has placed Cassini in a capture orbit around
Saturn, there's still apparently a bit to go before SOI is finished.
Burn at posting time is only 86% complete. Closest approach to Saturn
during the burn will be at an altitude of 20,500km, just after leaving
B-ring occultation. By 11:04 CDT we should see strong signal from
Cassini, with little to no further blockage expected from the very
thin C-ring.

OM

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Cassini is now the first captured object from Earth around Saturn!

Ayman al-Zawahiri threatens to behead him and beam the videotape to
Al-Jazeera, unless the crusaders permanently withdraw form occupation of
outer space.

Tamas Feher wrote:

Cassini is now the first captured object from Earth around Saturn!



Ayman al-Zawahiri threatens to behead him and beam the videotape to
Al-Jazeera, unless the crusaders permanently withdraw form occupation of
outer space.


Back into the ironclad, boy! :-)

Pat

In article ,
Tamas Feher wrote:
Cassini is now the first captured object from Earth around Saturn!

Ayman al-Zawahiri threatens to behead him and beam the videotape to
Al-Jazeera, unless the crusaders permanently withdraw form occupation of
outer space.

Dubya responds by ordering an invasion of Phoebe, citing positive evidence
of the presence of weapons of mass destruction.
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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:10:51 +0000, Henry Spencer wrote:

Dubya responds by ordering an invasion of Phoebe, citing positive evidence
of the presence of weapons of mass destruction.

While missing that the big hidey-hole is on Mimas!

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:17:15 -0400, Rick DeNatale
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:10:51 +0000, Henry Spencer wrote:

Dubya responds by ordering an invasion of Phoebe, citing positive evidence
of the presence of weapons of mass destruction.

While missing that the big hidey-hole is on Mimas!

....You mean the Death Star?

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

In article ,
OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:17:15 -0400, Rick DeNatale
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:10:51 +0000, Henry Spencer wrote:

Dubya responds by ordering an invasion of Phoebe, citing positive evidence
of the presence of weapons of mass destruction.

While missing that the big hidey-hole is on Mimas!

...You mean the Death Star?

OM

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