[meteorite-list] Future Dimming for Arecibo Telescope (Asteroid99942 Apophis)

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Jeff, List,

    This Week's Award for the Best
"Did-Anyone-Remember-To-Close-
The-Hatch-On-The-Spacecraft-Before-
We-Took-Off?" post goes to Jeff.

    Good work.

    I can only repeat:

    "Well," said Micromegas, "perhaps the beings
who inhabit it do not possess good sense."


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>; "Meteorite Mailing List" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Future Dimming for Arecibo Telescope 
(Asteroid99942 Apophis)


> Hi Ron & all,
>
> Below:
>
>>The telescope is so prized that astronomers let out a collective shudder
>>in November when a review panel recommended the U.S. cut 25 percent of
>>the observatory's $10.5 million astronomy budget next year and consider
>>eliminating it entirely at the end of the decade.
>
>>From the post on Monday:
>
> [meteorite-list] The Threat is Out There (Asteroid 99942 Apophis)
> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2006-December/028906.html
>
>>NASA, however, is taking a wait-and-see attitude. An analysis by Steven
>>Chesley of the Near Earth Object program at the Jet Propulsion
>>Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., concludes that we can safely sit
>>tight until 2013. That's when Apophis swings by Earth in prime position
>>for tracking by the 1000-ft.-dia. radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
>
> Mmmmmmm!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>