[meteorite-list] [meteorite-list) Electric park?

[Dennis]

Hello, Gang.  Quick question:  Where is Electric Park? (Tucson)
Dennis 

Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

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>Feb. 1, 2012
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>Dwayne Brown 
>Headquarters, Washington202-358-1726 
>dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov 
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>DC Agle 
>Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
>818-393-9011 
>agle at jpl.nasa.gov 
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>Caroline McCall 
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 
>617-253-1682 
>cmcall5 at mit.edu 
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>Whitney Lawrence Mullen 
>Sally Ride Science, San Diego 
>858-638-1432 
>wmullen at sallyridescience.com 
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>RELEASE: 12-040
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>NASA SPACECRAFT RETURNS FIRST VIDEO FROM FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
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>WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And 
>Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first 
>unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge 
>Acquired by Middle school students, will be used by students 
>nationwide to select lunar images for study. 
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>GRAIL consists of two identical spacecraft, recently named Ebb and 
>Flow, each of which is equipped with a MoonKam. The images were taken 
>as part of a test of Ebb's MoonKam on Jan. 19. The GRAIL project 
>plans to test the MoonKAM aboard Flow at a later date. 
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>To view the 30-second video clip, visit: 
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>http://go.nasa.gov/zZXAPs 
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>In the video, the north pole of the moon is visible at the top of the 
>screen as the spacecraft flies toward the lunar south pole. One of 
>the first prominent geological features seen on the lower third of 
>the moon is the Mare Orientale, a 560 mile-wide (900 kilometer) 
>impact basin that straddles both the moon's near and far side. 
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>The clip ends with rugged terrain just short of the lunar south pole. 
>To the left of center, near the bottom of the screen, is the 93 
>mile-wide (149 kilometer) Drygalski crater with a distinctive 
>star-shaped formation in the middle. The formation is a central peak, 
>created many billions of years ago by a comet or asteroid impact. 
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>"The quality of the video is excellent and should energize our MoonKAM 
>students as they prepare to explore the moon," said Maria Zuber, 
>GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of 
>Technology in Cambridge. 
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>The twin spacecraft successfully achieved lunar orbit last New Year's 
>Eve and New Year's Day. Previously named GRAIL-A and -B, the washing 
>machine-sized spacecraft received their new names from fourth graders 
>at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., following 
>a nationwide student-naming contest. 
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>Thousands of fourth- to eighth-grade students will select target areas 
>on the lunar surface and send requests to the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission 
>Operations Center in San Diego. Photos of the target areas will be 
>sent back by the satellites for students to study. The MoonKAM 
>program is led by Sally Ride, America's first woman in space. Her 
>team at Sally Ride Science and undergraduate students at the 
>University of California in San Diego will engage middle schools 
>across the country in the GRAIL mission and lunar exploration. GRAIL 
>is NASA's first planetary mission carrying instruments fully 
>dedicated to education and public outreach. 
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>"We have had great response from schools around the country, more than 
>2,500 signed up to participate so far," Ride said. "In mid-March, the 
>first pictures of the moon will be taken by students using MoonKAM. I 
>expect this will excite many students about possible careers in 
>science and engineering." 
>
>Launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow periodically perform 
>trajectory correction maneuvers that, over time, will lower their 
>orbits to near-circular ones with an altitude of about 34 miles (55 
>kilometers). During their science mission, the duo will answer 
>longstanding questions about the moon and give scientists a better 
>understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar 
>system formed. 
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>NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the 
>GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. 
>The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's 
>Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin 
>Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. 
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>For more information about GRAIL, visit: 
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>http://www.nasa.gov/grail 
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>Information about MoonKAM is available at: 
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>https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/ 
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