[meteorite-list] UA Science Team Readies For NEAR Landing

From: Martin Horejsi <martinh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:07 2004
Message-ID: <B6A70517.F93%martinh_at_isu.edu>

Stuart kindly wrote:
> Is the gravity of 433 Eros really going to be enough to hold it down, or
> will Newton's third law send it straight back up again?

Hi Stuart,

Or might the first law slowly send it into an earth crossing orbit?

See the story at:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/05/earth.move/index.html

Cheers,

Martin


Ps: I wanted to avoid being out in the open during opening day of the Casper
hunting season, but Michael's mention of Mars at $275 is actually $5/g
higher than the Labenne's price offered on their site in September of last
year. See it at:

http://www.labenne-meteorites.com/mars.htm
Received on Wed 07 Feb 2001 03:58:47 PM PST