[meteorite-list] Re: (meteorobs) Artificial meteorites head back into space

[Gerald Flaherty]

Not off topic at all! MOST approriate. Let's see if the little beastees can 
survive reentry. Poor things!  Glad they didn't tie me on!!!
Chalk up one to life's space travel MAYBE! Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:41 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: (meteorobs) Artificial meteorites head back 
into space


> WOW !
>
> En un mensaje con fecha 06/01/2005 4:38:56 AM Mexico Daylight Time,
> david.entwistle at dial.pipex.com escribe:
>
> Collated from a collection of announcements and websites. I hope  this
> isn't considered off-topic.
>
> 31 May 2005
> An unmanned Foton-M  spacecraft carrying a mainly European payload was
> put into orbit by a Russian  Soyuz-U launcher today at 14:00 Central
> European Time (18:00 local time) from  the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
> Kazakhstan. Following the launch and nine minutes  of propelled flight,
> the Foton-M2 spacecraft is now in low-earth orbit where  it will remain
> for 16 days before its re-entry module lands close to the  Russian/Kazakh
> border.
>
> The European payload carried by Foton-M2 covers  a scientific programme
> consisting of 39 experiments in fluid physics,  biology, material
> science, meteoritics, radiation dosimetry and  exobiology.
>
> Of particular interest, the STONE-5 experiment considers  artificial
> meteorites of sedimentary origin and aims to study the  physical,
> chemical and biological modifications caused by atmospheric  entry.
>
> Three different types of rock, loaded with micro-organisms, are  mounted
> at the stagnation point in the heat shield (the hottest region  during
> re-entry) of the Foton-M2 re-entry capsule. During re-entry into  the
> atmosphere at the end of the two-week flight the three rocks will  be
> subjected to temperature and pressure loads comparable to  those
> experienced by meteorites.
>
> You can read more here:
>
> Foton  M2 launch announcement from ESA'a web  site.
> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMZDJ0DU8E_index_0.html
>
> Details of the  STONE experiment from ESA's Erasmus Experiment  Archive
> http://tinyurl.com/7m7c8
>
> Esrange Satellite  Operations
> http://www.ssc.se/default.asp?groupid=2004621135048841
>
> --
> David Entwistle
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