[meteorite-list] Comet Pioneer Fred Whipple Dies

[Ron Baalke]

This is sad news. The Whipple Shields on the Stardust spacecraft,
which protected the spaceraft during its Comet Wild 2 encounter
earlier this year, were named in his honor. I first
corresponded with Whipple in 1997, and he wrote this letter to the
project:

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/whipple_letter.html

Fred Whippled was invited by the project to the Stardust launch in
1999, where I first met him in person.

Ron Baalke