The Genesis spacecraft is heading home with it cargo of solar particles. It scheduled to fly by on Sept 8 and drop the Sample Return Capsule. The spacecraft will from what I know, will then head out into space. If there's going to be a problem with the flyby, ie the weather prevents the pickup of the Sample Return Capsule, they will command the Genesis spacecraft to adjust it's trajectory, so it orbits the earth. Genesis spacecraft Mission Webpage. http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/ A picture showing where the Genesis spacecraft is located. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/genesismedia/genesis.jpg The JPL's solar system dynamics WWW site ( http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov ) has positions for it up until Aug 9. Using the telnet site, you can get orbital elements data, on it. Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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