January 24, 2006
Voyager - like other deep space probes - out there with a message from Earth - who remembers?

Good day,

Larry Klaes posted a note about the twentieth anniversary of Voyager 2 passing Uranus and a Wall Street Journal story about our sending notes in bottles to potential reader out there in space.
- LRK -

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Today, January 24, is the twentieth anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of the planet Uranus, the first probe to that world.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/uranus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2

Four days later, nearly everyone forgot about this mission and its images of a bland blue ball.

http://www.fas.org/spp/51L.html

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Message in a Bottle

by Jason Fry of the Wall Street Journal

Sending Messages Into Outer Space Has Changed Since Voyager's Day

January 23, 2006

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB113751632447848689.html

To quote:

"In all likelihood, space probes will be the only things of ours that endure after our species is gone and our planet utterly changed -- a few inert, pitted machines will be the sole clues that we ever existed, and the ancient messages they carry our only chance to explain who we were. It's vanishingly unlikely that any being will ever find the Pioneers, Voyagers or the New Horizons probe in the billion-odd years during which their messages will remain readable. But though imagining such a discovery borders on an act of faith, it's not impossible. And since it isn't, shouldn't the only trace of ourselves be something more substantive than an unbelievably ancient PR campaign? Don't we owe ourselves a final testament that's something more than space spam?"

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Hard to believe that it is already January 24, 2006. See other items around this day from JPL Space Calendar clip below. There are a lot of links in the Wall Street Journal story as well so I will leave it to you to check that out as well.

My thanks to Larry Klaes for his posts, which I stole. :-)

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Space Calendar

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Jan 23 -[Jan 24] ALOS 1 H-2A Launch (Japan)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults TYC 1893-00450-1 (10.7 Magnitude Star)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 5203 Pavarotti Closest Approach To Earth (1.662 AU)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 5281 Lindstrom Closest Approach To Earth (2.080 AU)
Jan 23 - 20th Anniversary (1986), Brad Smith's Discovery of Uranus Moon Bianca
Jan 23 - Glenn Research Center's 65th Birthday (1941)
Jan 23 - 100th Anniversary (1906), August Kopff's Discovery of Asteroid 582 Olympia
Jan 24 - Asteroid 1807 Slovakia Occults HIP 49530 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
Jan 24 - Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (1.511 AU)
Jan 24 - 20th Anniversary (1986), Voyager 2, Uranus Flyby
Jan 25 - Saturn Occults PPM 125631 (8.0 Magnitude Star)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 4150 Starr Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
Jan 25 - Joseph Lagrange's 270th Birthday (1736)
Jan 25-26 - EARA Workshop 2006: Galactic Bulges, Padova, Italy

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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