Posted on 09/22/2011 12:58:40 AM PDT by buccaneer81
It's not often I read about a new project that leaves me undecided whether it's totally crazy or a stroke of genius.
I was recently sent a news release of such a project and, having read it over a few times, I think I'm leaning toward the latter.
The idea is the brain child of British amateur astronomer Nick Howes who not only has a passion for hunting for asteroids, but also for the Space Race — in particular, the Apollo era.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
That would be quite a find. Occasionally the spent S-IVB stage from Apollo 12 shows up (denoted as object J002E3). It was supposed to be sent into a solar orbit but a slightly longer than planned ullage burn depleted the propellant left to send it on its way, so it was retained in a highly elliptical, unstable orbit around the Earth, looping far out beyond the moon. It is believed to have left Earth orbit and is now orbiting the Sun as originally planned, but it may be re-captured by the Earth’s gravity as some future time.
I searched. Don’t blame me.
Those are clearly projector displays.
Wasn’t placing any blame. Just posted it so folks could read the comments on that thread too.
Gotcha.
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