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(meteorobs) FWD: Leonids & High-Altitude Balloons - University of North Dakota Aerospace Hopes to Collect Dust Samples
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--- Louis Varricchio <varricch@aero.unddot edu> wrote:
> If all goes well, the University of North Dakota
> Aerospace (UND) Space Studies Dept. is planning to
> launch an unmanned, high-altitude balloon on Nov. 18
> to track the Leonid meteor shower and (hopefully)
> collect extraterrestrial dust samples.
>
> UND is not as state-of-the-art as NASA Marshall
> (which is also launching a balloon; see news release
> pasted on below)--we're on a shoe-string--but our
> "strato-balloon" team, using high quality balloons,
> is very good at building rugged instruments, as well
> as tracking and recovering payloads.
>
> Recently, a UND Aerospace balloon reached an
> extremely high altitude (in "near space") on a
> recent flight. I'll keep you posted. It's an
> exiting attempt for us. Meanwhile, here's our
> strato-balloon project Web page with some great
> near-space images taken from past flights; cam is
> mounted on the payload gondola. The Leonid project
> probably won't be posted until after the fact
> assuming we launch the bugger!
> http://people.aero.unddot edu/~nordlie/balloon/
>
¯---The above was a reply to a FWD by Ron Baalke---_
>
>"NASA Balloon Astronomers Prepare for Leonids"
>
> By Glen Golightly
> Houston Bureau Chief
> Nov 02 1999 06:13:25 ET
>
>
> HUNTSVILLE, Alabama * Astronomers at NASA's Marshall
> Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama are
> preparing to launch their third attempt to capture
> meteor particles and show it all on video. They
> intend to release their specially equipped, low-cost
> balloon at about 1:30 a.m. ET on November 18, to
> catch the peak of the Leonid meteor shower.
>
-----------SNIP!!!------------------
> >
>
> LOUIS VARRICCHIO
> Environmental Information Specialist &
> Producer/Writer, "Our Changing Planet"
> (Visit OCP-TV on the Web at: www.umac.org/ocp)
> Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
> Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
> University of North Dakota
> Grand Forks, N.D. 58202-9007 U.S.A.
> Phone: 701-777-2482
> Fax: 701-777-2940
> E-mail: varricch@umac.org (in N.D.);
> morbius@togetherdot net (in Vt.)
>
> "Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for
> that is the ratio by
> which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn
> of time, a hundred
> billion human beings have walked the planet Earth."
> -- Arthur C. Clarke
>
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>
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