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Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise (26 April 1937 – 5 January 2015) was a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver who raced for the Matra and BRM teams. François Cevert was his brother-in-law (his wife's brother). He competed in 88 Grands Prix achieving one win and eight podium finishes.
Formula One
In 1966, Beltoise drove in the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in a Formula Two (F2) one litre Matra MS5-Cosworth. He finished one lap down but won the F2 class. However, it was his only Grand Prix that season. In 1967 Beltoise competed in three Grands Prix with a Formula Two Matra MS7 1.6 litre Cosworth, and finished seventh at both Watkins Glen and Mexico City. He also won the 1967 Buenos Aires Grand Prix, which was not part of the World Championship calendar. In 1968 Beltoise began the season again with an F2 car but from the second race onward had Formula One machinery and finished second in the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix. In 1969 he was placed in Ken Tyrrell's Matra team, whilst the works V12 engine was developed driving alongside Jackie Stewart, and finished second in the French grand Prix. Beltoise returned to the works Matra team for both 1970 and 1971. In 1971, racing in the Matra sports car team, he was involved in the accident in which Ignazio Giunti died during the 1000 km Buenos Aires, and his international racing license was suspended for some time.
In 1971 Matra signed Chris Amon as team leader which frustrated Beltoise's ambitions. For 1972 he moved to the BRM team and won what turned out to be his only and BRM's final Formula One victory at the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix in heavy rain.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-14/local/me-170_1_voyager-neptune-miles
Los Angeles Times
Science / Medicine : Voyager 2 Changes Course
November 14, 1988 From Times staff and wire reports
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, flying through space 2.6 billion miles from Earth, fired its thrusters Friday to change course for its August, 1989, picture-taking encounter with the planet Neptune, NASA said.
"Responding to radio signals radioed from Earth, Voyager 2 fired its hydrazine thrusters for three minutes and 29 seconds beginning at 6:55 a.m. PST," said a statement issued by the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Flight engineering manager Lanny Miller said radio signals sent to Earth by the space probe indicated the maneuver succeeded.
The pre-planned course correction will bring Voyager 2 about 6,200 miles closer to the solar system's eighth planet, but another major maneuver next April and several subsequent but minor trajectory changes will be required before the Neptune flyby, said laboratory spokeswoman Mary Beth Murrill.
The spacecraft--which passed by Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986--is scheduled to sweep within 3,000 miles of Neptune's cloud tops at 9 p.m. PDT next Aug. 24, taking pictures with its television camera. Five hours later, it will fly within 24,000 miles of Neptune's moon Triton, which scientists believe may have lakes of liquid nitrogen.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-21/news/mn-701_1_atmospheric-scientist
Los Angeles Times
Fierce Storms in Neptune's Atmosphere Baffle Scientists
August 21, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
Scientists have discovered a "Rogue's Gallery" of storm centers in the atmosphere of Neptune, including hurricane-like storms that are so intense they defy explanation.
Packing winds of up to 400 m.p.h., the fierce storms appear as dark spots on photos that are being sent back to Earth from the Voyager spacecraft, which is zipping toward a close encounter with the distant planet Thursday night. Scientists had expected Neptune's atmosphere to be more like that of Uranus, a bland, gray ball in the dark sky. Instead, it has mysterious storms and high level clouds that whip across the planet's upper atmosphere so fast that scientists have named them "scooters."
"It's surprising to see all this weather activity," said Caltech atmospheric scientist Andrew Ingersoll, a member of the Voyager's imaging team.
Scientists are at a loss to explain it because Neptune is so far out in the solar system that it receives only about 1/1,000th as much energy from the sun as does Earth. Because solar radiation drives the Earth's atmospheric system, it was reasonable to expect Neptune's atmosphere to be at least as bland as that of Uranus.
"The sun is, after all, what powers the weather," Ingersoll said Sunday as scientists and reporters from around the world converged on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena for this week's astronomical extravaganza.
Neptune also has an interior source of heat that is about equal to that which it gets from the sun. But even when added together, Ingersoll said, the two energy sources would not seem to be enough to explain the phenomenon.
"Any way you slice it up it's very little energy to drive the kind of weather we are seeing at Neptune," he said.
Scientists have been keeping tabs on four "dark spots" for several weeks, ever since the images from Voyager became sharp enough to detect them. The largest is called the Great Dark Spot because it is similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, although less dynamic.
Jupiter's "Great Red Spot eats other spots," Ingersoll said, providing the fuel to keep the storm system going. If Neptune's Great Dark Spot is also dining on its lessers, that has not been observed so far--in fact, Voyager images show the giant spot losing material in the form of long streamers.
"We haven't seen anything sucked into it yet," Ingersoll said, raising the question of where the spot is getting the fuel to keep it running.
No one, at this point, knows.
"We have a Rogue's Gallery" of atmospheric features, Ingersoll said, citing also a "bright polar feature" near the south pole, and broad bands of different shades of blue extending around the planet below the equator. The color is caused by methane in Neptune's atmosphere.
"We don't understand the weather well enough to explain the bands," Ingersoll said. "Maybe they are related to wind currents. It's just beyond us right now."
Ingersoll expects at least some of those questions to be answered in the days ahead as Voyager closes in on Neptune, which for the moment is the most distant known planet in the solar system. Pluto, which normally holds that rank, travels in an oblong orbit and for the next few years will remain inside of Neptune's orbit.
This morning, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make the last major course change planned for Voyager's trajectory. If successful, it will send Voyager to within 3,000 miles of Neptune's cloud tops, the closest approach it has made to any planet.
Hopes for a Clear View
Five hours later, the 12-year-old Voyager will pass Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which is also generating a little excitement these days. Scientists are hoping that Triton's thin atmosphere will be clear enough for them to see its surface, and there was some reason Sunday to believe that they will be in luck.
Voyager images of Triton already show some features, but it has not been possible to say for certain whether they are on the surface or in the satellite's atmosphere. One way to determine that is to track their movements on consecutive images and see if they correspond to what would be expected if the features are fixed on the surface as opposed to clouds in the atmosphere.
Some scientists were reasonably convinced Sunday that at least some of the features are indeed on the surface, holding out the promise of a truly spectacular meeting with Triton Friday morning.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-22/news/mn-945_1_voyager-project
Los Angeles Times
For Voyager, It's Too Late to Turn Back Now
August 22, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
The Voyager spacecraft fired its thrusters and changed course for the last time Monday morning, tossing its fate to the interstellar winds.
There is virtually nothing that can be done now if danger should arise on the last leg of its journey to Neptune.
"This was the last maneuver," said Voyager project manager Norman Haynes.
Fortunately, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe the course they have charted will keep the aging craft out of harm's way, setting the stage for "a week of great drama," JPL director Lew Allen told scientists and reporters from around the world who have gathered at the Pasadena laboratory awaiting the encounter.
Thursday night Voyager should pass clear of the partial ring arcs around Neptune's equator, and then zip over the planet's north pole just 3,000 miles above the cloud tops. Friday, it is to fly past Neptune's largest moon, Triton, ending a spectacular tour of the four outer planets.
"This is the final movement of the Voyager symphony," said chief scientist Edward Stone. "We're in for a good ride."
Voyager continued to send back data on the distant, gaseous planet and its "intriguing" moon, Triton. Images transmitted are growing slightly sharper.
"Everything we see is new," said Bradford Smith of the University of Arizona, leader of the imaging team.
The smorgasbord of discoveries, which will intensify as the week wears on, included images of Triton that reveal atmospheric phenomena that Smith likened to "snowstorms."
Triton travels in a highly inclined orbit that carries it far above and below Neptune's equator, and the amount of sunlight that falls on either pole varies according to where Triton is in its orbit. By a bit of good fortune, Voyager will arrive at Triton when its south pole is enjoying what passes for "summer."
Triton looks slightly pink in images sent back by Voyager, but its northern hemisphere has patches that have a trace of blue, suggesting that Voyager has arrived at an opportune time to witness one of the moon's dynamic processes.
Smith said it appears that at Triton's south pole, the uneven distribution of heat is thawing frozen methane, which rises into the atmosphere and drifts north. The volatile cloud eventually settles back on the moon's northern surface as a "snowstorm" of frozen natural gas.
The images also reveal that Triton is brighter than had been expected, indicating that it is reflecting more solar energy. That also means it is colder than expected. Some scientists had speculated that Triton might have lakes and oceans of liquid nitrogen, but Smith dashed those conjectures Monday.
"The temperature (of Triton) is well below liquid nitrogen," he said, so any nitrogen on its surface will be frozen.
Triton fascinates scientists because it is the only large moon in the solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation. "It is a most intriguing moon," Stone said. "It orbits backwards."
That has led scientists to speculate that Triton did not form when Neptune was formed, but just happened to be passing by and got captured by the planet's gravity.
"Perhaps it was a giant comet which had the misfortune of coming too close to Neptune," Stone said.
If so, Triton should have cleaned out a wide swath of lesser objects as it settled into a stable orbit, colliding with everything in its path.
Voyager has so far found nothing that would disprove that. The four new moons it has discovered are too close to the planet to have been hit by Triton, and no new moons have been found in the area that Triton should have swept clear.
Late Monday Voyager began taking pictures of Neptune's other major moon, Nereid. Voyager's course will keep it nearly 3 million miles away from Nereid, so these will not be close-ups, but they will offer the best view anyone has ever had of that distant body.
Voyager will arrive at Neptune a little earlier than had been planned. It turns out that Neptune is slightly closer to Earth than scientists had thought. That will shave 4 1/2 minutes off Voyager's 12-year journey, making its arrival time 8:55 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday.
Neptune, by the way, is presently 2,742,542,051 miles from Earth.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/entertainment/ca-1464_1_neptune-voyage
Los Angeles Times
Neptune Can Be as Close as Your TV
August 24, 1989 STEVE WEINSTEIN
Every once in a while, a clever screenwriter reminds us that when we peer up at some distant star or planet, we are actually looking into the past because the light thrown off by the celestial body takes so long to travel to us here on Earth.
On public-television stations around the country tonight, would-be astronomers and insomniacs alike can spend the wee hours looking at close-up photographs of Neptune's recent past as Voyager 2 zips past the planet and its moons at 38,000 m.p.h., snapping pictures like a shutter-happy tourist.
Traveling at the speed of light, the signals that make up those photographs will take four hours and six minutes to traverse the 2.7 billion miles separating Neptune and Earth. And just as soon as the signals are received by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's deep space tracking antennas in California, Spain and Australia and then turned into photographs by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, viewers will be able to see them on their television screens.
The cosmic slide show begins at 11:30 p.m. on KCET Channel 28, at 11 p.m. on KVCR Channel 24 and at 12:25 a.m. on KPBS Channel 15, and will continue until at least 4 a.m. Friday. Anyone willing to stay up will get the first look at these pictures from deep space just hours after the 1-ton Voyager spacecraft makes its closest pass over the clouds of Neptune, turns 45 degrees with the help of the planet's gravity and then flies past Neptune's quirky moon, Triton. Voyager is scheduled to buzz within 3,000 miles of Neptune's wispy cloud tops tonight at 9.
Reports on Voyager's close encounter with Neptune, the pale-blue eighth planet from the sun that was discovered in 1846, will also be carried throughout the night on Cable News Network and C-SPAN. CNN will have extended live coverage of the mission beginning at 1 a.m.
During its 4.4-billion mile, circuitous journey through the solar system, Voyager 2 has already photographed Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Tonight's meeting with Neptune, which is four times the size of Earth, will be Voyager's final visit to a planetary system before it darts off into the infinity of space. Scientists hope that Voyager will provide the first direct measurements of the environment outside the solar system sometime in the next century.
PBS' "Neptune All Night" will feature 20-minute updates each hour from NASA and JPL scientists as they examine and interpret the most recent photographs. The remaining 40 minutes each hour will originate live from WHYY-TV in Philadelphia and will include a panel of experts on the East Coast and at JPL analyzing the new data, live viewer calls on a nationwide toll-free hot line, reaction to the Neptune voyage from science-fiction writers and celebrities, a recap of Voyager's previous planetary encounters and a frivolous look at space travel in movies and science-fiction literature.
"We are staying on the air all night to present this program because there really has been a rebirth in public interest in the space program," said Don Leifer, program director at KVCR in San Bernardino. "We literally had a block party on my street with all the people watching the lunar eclipse (last week). This show is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. It's the first time anyone will have seen such close-up pictures of Neptune, and we felt this falls exactly into where public television should go."
Earlier this week, Edward Stone, Voyager's chief project scientist, called the meeting with Neptune "the final movement in the Voyager symphony of the outer planets, and like a symphony, its tempo is accelerating as it nears the end."
Already Voyager has discovered four previously unknown Neptunian moons, a complete ring and several partial rings circling the planet, a huge storm system the size of the Earth that may pack winds up to 400 m.p.h. and a strong magnetic field. JPL scientists expect further discoveries today as the spacecraft sails through the upper reaches of Neptune's atmosphere and then within 2,500 miles of Triton, the moon that revolves the "wrong" way and appears to have a transparent atmosphere and a pinkish, iced surface.
"It may snow from time to time in places, there may be heavy frost laid down," astronomer Bradford Smith said of the eccentric satellite. "What we would really like to do is to get some idea of what Triton's geological history has been. It's a strange satellite, it's in the wrong orbit, it's going backward around Neptune, and something truly catastrophic must have happened at some time in its past."
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/entertainment/ca-1464_1_neptune-voyage/2
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Neptune Can Be as Close as Your TV
August 24, 1989 STEVE WEINSTEIN
Voyager's snapshots of Neptune can also be seen on the NASA-Select satellite feed by anyone with their own satellite dish, on some cable-access channels and at various locations around the Southland. The NASA-Select feed will contain fresh images from space as well as NASA and JPL press conferences and discussions of the mission and the spacecraft's discoveries. The NASA feed will begin at 9 a.m. today and continue through the night, and also will be broadcast from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day through Tuesday.
The NASA-Select feed can be seen at the California Museum of Science and Industry, the Griffith Park Observatory, Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater in San Diego, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Cal State Long Beach, El Camino College, San Diego State, Santa Monica College, UCLA, USC, Ambassador College, Southwestern College and on some cable systems. Interested viewers should call their cable operators for details.
The Learning Channel will also offer a one-hour progress report on Voyager today at 5 p.m. CNN will air a special report, "Voyager: Rendezvous With Neptune," Saturday at 5 a.m. And TBS will carry its own special on Voyager at 7 p.m. Sunday, hosted by Carl Sagan and Sidney Poitier.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/news/mn-1349_1_voyager-team
Los Angeles Times
12-Year Grand Tour Begins to End : JPL Interplanetary Team Looks Back on Voyager
August 24, 1989 LINDA ROACH MONROE Times Staff Writer
A dozen years. Time enough for a toddler to become a teen-ager, for a fledgling scientist to become a veteran, for arcane technologies to become everyday. Time enough for an 1,800-pound package of primitive electronics to skate more than 4 billion miles toward the stars.
And time enough for the 300 people who remain part of the Voyager 2 team to take stock of memories built up over years of planning, engineering and executing their grand tour of four planets. Especially for the estimated 10 to 20 scientists and engineers who have been around since the very beginning, the tour's finale at Neptune this week is a time of bittersweet recollection.
Stewart (Andy) Collins, 42, is one of those whose careers was built on Voyager; in 1970 he came to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a 23-year-old, straight out of college, and then joined the Voyager planning team shortly after the program began in 1972. He has since moved on to supervise JPL's development of light detection equipment for other space missions.
Collins remembers that his son, Brian, now 12, said one of his first words in 1979 when Voyager flew by the solar system's largest planet: "Jupiper."
"He's our launch boy," Collins said, explaining that Brian was born a few months before Voyager's launch in August, 1977. "And our daughter, we think of her as Encounter plus 20 days, because she was born 20 days after the second Jupiter flyby. And our latest is Encounter minus 17 days."
Marie Collins was born Aug. 7, as the laboratory in Pasadena geared up for Voyager 2's pass by Neptune. That close encounter will come at 8:56 p.m. tonight, when Voyager will fly just 3,000 miles from Neptune's swirling clouds.
Although the Neptune mission will not be considered finished until Oct. 2, the close approach marks the beginning of the end of a program that has changed not just astronomy textbooks but also the lives of those who have been dedicated to it. Their days, they say, will always carry reminders of Voyager.
"Voyager has spoiled me for anything else," Collins said. "I'm reconciled to the fact that whatever comes next probably won't be nearly as satisfying."
The Voyager experience has also shaped the life of Christopher P. Jones, section manager for guidance and control systems at JPL. He joined Voyager in 1973, one year after the program officially began.
All the years of planning for every conceivable disaster in Voyager's clunky computers--something he now does for all JPL missions--changed his personality, Jones said with a grin.
"I always have contingency plans. I'm always thinking ahead, and never optimistically," Jones said. He checks to see if there is air in the spare tire. He builds time into his schedule so he will not be late. He knows which route he will take if the freeway off-ramp is closed.
"It comes across as a pessimistic view of life, but in fact it's more insurance than anything else," he said.
Jones and his colleagues had to imagine every improbable glitch along the 4.4-billion-mile journey to Neptune, equipping Voyager's six computers both for frontier science and to correct problems as they developed. But they only had 28,000 bytes of computer memory to do it with--35 times less than the memory of Jones' desktop computer of today.
Indeed, now that scientists can stop worrying about nursing the aging spacecraft past another planet, they can sit back and laugh affectionately at its outdated technology.
When Voyager 1 and 2 flew by Jupiter in 1979, the days before George Lucas-style supercomputer graphics, the Voyager team used laborious techniques to make a motion picture of the rotating gases and famous red spot, Collins recalled.
Several dozen images taken in sequence were processed individually at JPL, with extra care taken so they would all be in the same scale. The images were given to a film recorder to be converted into large transparencies. These then were trundled off to a Hollywood animation house, where they were sequenced onto film--"like Disney would do," Collins said.
"VCRs weren't what they are today. Back then, if you didn't have 16-millimeter film, nobody would know how to show it," Collins said. "Today, you'd do the processing, record the images right onto a videodisc and play them onto videotape." Instant movie.
Voyager's television cameras, called vidicons, also find it hard to get respect. Although they were the state of the art in the late 1960s, their light sensitivity is many times less than that of the silicon-chip-based cameras that have since become standard fare of home videotapers, noted Bradford A. Smith of the University of Arizona, leader of the imaging team since 1972.
"You just couldn't even compare the two," Smith said. "Vidicons are just the last thing in the world that anyone would want to fly."
For Linda Horn, infrared experiment specialist for Voyager, the mission opened up a magical world that she had dreamed about since childhood.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/news/mn-1349_1_voyager-team/2
Los Angeles Times
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12-Year Grand Tour Begins to End : JPL Interplanetary Team Looks Back on Voyager
August 24, 1989 LINDA ROACH MONROE Times Staff Writer
"I had a little telescope when I was a girl, and I used to look at the planets and the stars," said Horn, who joined the Voyager team shortly before the 1977 launch. "To actually come to JPL, get on a space mission and then go to the launch--talk about enthusiastic."
She and others involved with Voyager emphasize the team nature of the project, the kind of effort that makes lifelong friends.
Said Collins: "It was always staffed with just enough people. By that I mean everyone had to do his job well, because there wasn't a second person there to do it for them. So you develop a lot of good relationships with your co-workers."
This sense of the end of something unique and wondrous is common among these interplanetary pioneers.
"We're not going to go back to Neptune in our lifetimes," Jones said. "To be able to participate in an enterprise like Voyager is a special, one-time chance. It's like being around when Columbus discovered America."
Smith said he remains convinced that Voyager is scientifically the most productive, most exciting space mission ever.
"Just look at Neptune," Smith said. "The whole system is so photogenic and so exciting. You've got the atmosphere which is much more active than what we had ever expected it to be. There are dynamics there that we don't understand.
"That's what makes missions exciting. If you immediately understand what you're looking at, that's no fun. It's when you see things that just leave you lying awake at night thinking about them, and then you eventually figure out what it's all about--that's the fun part of it."
Charley Kohlhase, mission design manager and a primary mover in Voyager since the early days, is spending this week careening from scientific meeting to press briefing to official reception, trying not to look too rumpled for the TV cameras.
One morning early in the week, he paused briefly to talk about both the excitement and the sadness he is feeling.
"It's just exhilarating now. The problem will come next Monday or Tuesday," Kohlhase said. "The press will pick up and leave, all the trailers will go. We'll look at Neptune and it'll be shrinking smaller and smaller in the pictures, and even only barely be seen as a small crescent. And we'll know that the last big picture show is ended."
His comfort comes not from looking forward to other space missions, but from turning homeward.
"I have a grandson only a year and a half old, and I love to go hiking in the Sierra," he said. "Ten or 12 years from now I'll be hiking, and some night after the sun's down and the stars are up and I'm telling him stories, I'm going to look up and see Sirius."
Voyager will be headed toward Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, after it leaves our solar system. "And I'll reflect back and tell him stories that he can share and pass on to the generations," Kohlhase said, "and I guess amaze him a little bit."
SHOW-STOPPING MOON--An obscure moon threatened to steal Neptune's thunder as Voyager raced toward the distant planet. Page 37
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 10:26 PM Friday, April 20, 2007
That detail about the drawing by Petr Ginz on the ill-fated space shuttle flight STS-107 reminds me of a time I sitting in the UW Medical Center a couple years ago just after I became homeless. I was being treated there in the mental health unit before they transferred me to the VA hospital. I was in the mental health unit because I had gone again to the police for assistance. The problem is they never even asked me any questions. I went to the police several times and they never actually asked me any questions. They just took me to the hospital where then I was drugged up. The doctors drugged me up and they listened but they were not actually listening to what I had to say. So anyway, there was one day at UW Medical Center and I was sitting in a room with a group of other patients. One of the staff brought out some colored pencils and dark paper and suggested we draw something. She said to just draw anything you think of. I took one of those black pieces of paper and I drew an overhead view of the solar system, including the orbital paths of several planets. I told her when I was through that I should have drawn it larger because I couldn’t get as much detail in the drawing with it that small. If it had been larger, I could have illustrated how one of side of the planets was brighter than the other side because the sun was illuminating that side.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/news/mn-1386_1_oddball-moon
Los Angeles Times
Neptune's Oddball Moon May Steal Show
August 24, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
An obscure little moon that is almost invisible to the most powerful telescopes on Earth appeared in danger of stealing Neptune's thunder as the Voyager spacecraft raced toward tonight's historic encounter with the distant planet.
Images of Neptune's oddball moon, Triton, indicate part of the satellite's surface may be light blue in color, while much of the rest of it is pink.
"If it is indeed blue, it's the only thing that's blue on any satellite that we have seen" in the entire solar system, said Brad Smith, head of the imaging team. Smith and others suggested that the color may indicate the existence of glacier-like formations composed of frozen methane.
Explaining that puzzle was just one of scores of problems confronting scientists whose joy over the flawless mission seemed unbounded Wednesday.
"We have people literally jumping up and down" with excitement, Smith said.
The one-ton Voyager will arrive at Neptune at 8:56 tonight, climaxing a 12-year odyssey that is without parallel in the history of space exploration. But Neptune is so far away--2.7 billion miles--that it takes more than four hours for its signals to reach Earth, so it will be Friday morning before scientists get their first real close look at the encounter.
This will be the fourth and final planetary flyby for the aging craft.
Voyager 2, as it is officially known, and Voyager 1, its sister craft that whipped off toward outer space after visiting Jupiter and Saturn, have provided scientists with more information on the outer solar system than they had been able to learn throughout history.
Tonight, however, is the ultimate payday.
Prior to Voyager, Neptune was the least-known major object in the solar system. Over the next few days, as scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pore over data from the encounter, much of its mystery will be stripped away. But Wednesday, Neptune and its moons and unusual rings were giving up their secrets grudgingly.
Scientists have long been fascinated by Triton, which is a little smaller than Earth's moon, because it orbits Neptune in the opposite direction of the planet's rotation. No other major moon in the solar system travels backward.
Wednesday, Triton revealed that it has a few more surprises.
Color images of Triton, which are only about 1/10th as sharp as the photos that are expected over the weekend, reveal patches on the surface that appear to be light blue.
"That seems to be real," Smith said. "That suggests some real excitement here Friday morning and again Saturday" as better images are analyzed and released.
The blue region, however, is probably not the ocean of liquid nitrogen that some scientists had hoped to find at Triton. It turns out that the temperature there is around 307 degrees below zero, and that is so cold that nitrogen would be frozen.
"We don't know of any materials that would be blue that we would expect to see at Triton," Smith said.
It could be that Triton has the rough equivalent of glaciers of methane ice, sprinkled with crystals of methane snow.
On Earth, the sky looks blue because air molecules scatter sunlight as it enters the atmosphere. Something similar to that may be happening on the surface of Triton.
Smith noted that "very small solid particles" could do the same thing on the surface of Triton as gas molecules do in the Earth's atmosphere
The ice crystals "would be very small, and they could scatter the light and tend to look somewhat bluish."
In most areas, however, the surface appears pink. Triton is constantly being bombarded by high-energy particles from space, changing the chemical and physical characteristics of the surface and giving it a pinkish hue.
Scientists will have to wait at least another day to get images that are sharp enough to tell them about Triton's geology, but enough information has been collected by Voyager to give them some strong hints.
Caltech physicist Edward Stone, the Voyager project's chief scientist, said the surface of Triton is primarily methane ice.
"Methane ice is quite soft and will flow," he said. "It's not rigid like the water ice we've seen at other satellites."
So it could be that the surface has some interesting contours. No matter how it looks, scientists are not likely to be disappointed.
Meanwhile, JPL wizards who "fly" the Voyager confirmed that the maneuver that they put the craft through Monday morning has put them "right smack-dab in the middle" of the place they wanted to be, according to Norm Haynes, Voyager project manager.
Flight controllers wanted to change Voyager's course so that the Earth and the sun will both be aligned on this side of Triton when the spacecraft passes on the far side.
Known as a "double occultation," that alignment will permit scientists to study Triton's atmosphere by determining which wavelengths of light from the Earth and the sun are absorbed by Triton's atmosphere. Different chemical elements absorb different wavelengths.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-24/news/mn-1386_1_oddball-moon/2
Los Angeles Times
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Neptune's Oddball Moon May Steal Show
August 24, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
That required an ever so gentle nudge, and Haynes said Wednesday it had been a total success.
"We are predicting a 99.9% probability that we will hit an Earth-sun occultation," he said.
Voyager has demonstrated rather dramatically the difficulty that scientists have had in studying Neptune from Earth. Astronomers with ground-based telescopes had accumulated strong evidence of three ring arcs and at least a hint of three more for a total of six.
Voyager, however, has found only one. The errors in ground observations were most likely due to uncertainties about the Neptunian system that even included the planet's exact position, Stone said, but Neptune also seems to have played a bit of a trick on some of the observers.
It seems that two telescopes trained on Neptune at exactly the same time detected what appeared to be a ring arc, a streamer of particles that could be many thousands of miles long. But against almost impossible odds, they seem to have been looking at the planet at the exact moment that a passing star was eclipsed by one of the newly discovered tiny moons, falsely indicating the presence of an arc.
For such a small moon to block out the light from a star at just the time that astronomers were looking it was termed "an improbable event" by Smith.
"But it does really seem that that is what happened," he said, incredulously.
TV WILL SHOW FLYBY--Astronomers and insomniacs can view Neptune on TV tonight as Voyager 2 zips past at 38,000 m.p.h.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereid_(moon)
Nereid (moon)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nereid is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has a highly eccentric orbit. It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
Discovery and naming
Nereid was discovered on May 1, 1949, by Gerard P. Kuiper
Orbit and rotation
Nereid orbits Neptune in the prograde direction at an average distance of 5,513,400 km (3,425,900 mi), but its high eccentricity of 0.7507 takes it as close as 1,372,000 km (853,000 mi) and as far as 9,655,000 km (5,999,000 mi).
https://www.pa.msu.edu/people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/planet_pages/Neptunes_moons.htm
Neptune's Moons
Triton
Mean Distance from Neptune 354,760 km (220,438 miles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_outer_Solar_System
Colonization of the outer Solar System
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many parts of the outer Solar System have been considered for possible future colonization. Most of the larger moons of the outer planets contain water ice, liquid water, and organic compounds that might be useful for sustaining human life.
Colonies in the outer Solar System could also serve as centers for long-term investigation of the planet and the other moons. In particular, robotic devices could be controlled by humans without the very long time delays needed to communicate with Earth.
There have also been proposals to place robotic aerostats in the upper atmospheres of the Solar System's gas giant planets for exploration and possibly mining of helium-3, which could have a very high value per unit mass as a thermonuclear fuel.
The Jovian system
The Jovian system in general poses particular disadvantages for colonizing because of its severe radiation environment and its particularly deep gravity well. Its radiation would deliver about 3,600 rems per day to unshielded colonists on Io and about 540 rems per day to unshielded colonists on Europa. Exposure of approximately 75 rems over a period of a few days is enough to cause radiation poisoning, and about 500 rems over a few days is fatal.
Callisto
Main article: Colonization of Callisto
Due to its distance from Jupiter's powerful radiation belt, Callisto is subject to only 0.01 rem a day. When NASA carried out a study called HOPE (Revolutionary Concepts for Human Outer Planet Exploration) regarding the future exploration of the Solar System, the target chosen was Callisto. It could be possible to build a surface base that would produce fuel for further exploration of the Solar System.
Neptune
It is hypothesized that one of Neptune's satellites could be used for colonization – Triton's surface shows signs of extensive geological activity that implies a subsurface ocean, perhaps composed of ammonia/water. If technology advanced to the point that tapping such geothermal energy was possible, it could make colonizing a cryogenic world like Triton feasible, supplemented by nuclear fusion power.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/145662730/
Newspapers.com
The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Page 7
Publication: The Pittsburgh Press
Issue Date: Saturday, August 19, 1989
Page: Page 7
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Dis-covery of a magnetic field around Neptune suggests the planet is envel-oped by radiation belts, but NASA hopes they won't damage the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flies past.
"Right now I don't think anyone is terribly alarmed," Norm Haynes, Voyager project manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration's Jet Propulsion Lab-oratory, said yesterday.
Similar radiation belts at Jupiter disrupted Voyager's internal clock, causing some instruments to make measurements at the wrong time.
Today, Voyager was 2.74 billion miles from Earth and 5.01 million miles from Neptune, speeding toward the gas planet at 42,251 mph.
The ship will make its closest approach to Neptune on Thursday when it zooms about 3,000 miles over the cloudtops of the solar system's fourth-largest planet.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/return-to-sender-3367379/
tv.com
NCIS Season 13 Episode 21
Return to Sender
Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Apr 19, 2016 on CBS
AIRED: 4/19/16
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis&episode=s13e21
Springfield! Springfield!
NCIS
Return to Sender
Aw, nuts! What's wrong? I forgot to ask Tony to get extra garlic bread.
By the way, great idea, getting him out of the apartment.
It was your idea to watch The Lazer Zone security footage back here at his place.
I'm just surprised he went for it.
Well, I think Tony's actually enjoying this.
(phone chimes) Ooh.
And he will be back any minute.
What'd you find? The windows are brand-new, heater's brand-new, air conditioner: brand-new.
Which explains the tax credit for energy efficiency.
Making the utility bills practically nonexistent.
The more we dig, the more depressing this is.
Should we stop? It's like we're missing something.
(quietly): Yeah.
(gasps): What about Stachybotrys chartarum? No, I thought of that and negative.
(sighs) It's actually negative for all types of mold.
Hmm.
Well other than the fact that this piano is in front of the double doors, there is nothing wrong with this place.
(sighs) What are you doing? I'm coveting.
Are we missing something? You think Tony keeps his real estate statements here? Wait, are you talking about breaking into his personal files? It's not like he hasn't snooped on us.
That's true.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis&episode=s13e21
Springfield! Springfield!
NCIS
Return to Sender
Any luck?
Well I got a dinner date.
Huh?
Yeah. Tony's dad made me promise to have dinner with him before he told me anything about Tony's apartment history.
And?
And he has no idea how he got it so cheap. Senior played me. Rude.
http://www.tv.com/shows/limitless/finale-part-one-3367435/
tv.com
Limitless Season 1 Episode 21
Finale: Part One!
Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Apr 19, 2016 on CBS
The FBI's worst nightmare comes true when NZT floods the streets of New York City and threatens to become a national epidemic. As efforts are made to stop it from spreading, a joint manhunt is launched to find the lab producing the drug; at the same time, Brian struggles to adjust to his new reality
AIRED: 4/19/16
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=limitless-2015&episode=s01e21
Springfield! Springfield!
Limitless
Finale: Part One!
You don't have a pill for me, do you? That's not why you're here.
Brian, what goes on out there doesn't affect your situation with the FBI. I'm sorry. You wrote this word down weeks before NZT dropped in Manhattan. How did you know the street name of a drug that wasn't on the street?
What, were you hoping that I'd just happen to remember something? So, basically, you came here to remind me that with NZT I'm helpful, but without it, I'm not.
http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis-los-angeles/granger-o--3367406/
tv.com
NCIS: Los Angeles Season 7 Episode 22
Granger, O.
Aired Monday 10:00 PM Apr 18, 2016 on CBS
AIRED: 4/18/16
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis-los-angeles&episode=s07e22
Springfield! Springfield!
NCIS Los Angeles
Granger, O.
I'm not really finding any personal items in here.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:10 PM Thursday, July 28, 2011
Spooky.
At the risk of giving away too many personally identifying details, I cannot help but make this following observation. During the 10 AM hour this morning here in Pacific time in Washington State, I was at the grocery store. I had the thought to pick up a bag of Lifesavers candy. I rarely if ever purchase candy but I was thinking about it as I walked to the grocery store and I had thought before, as I was then, about that scene from the 2002 film "Windtalkers." I had no specific reason for purchasing that item in relation to that film "Windtalkers" but I did think about it a great deal among the thousands of details that circulate around in my conscious mind during the day. I would not even note that detail about that Lifesavers candy here in my web log except for one other detail. Somehow, the total bill for the groceries I took to the self-checkout line totaled *precisely* $33.59. That was after tax. I thought about that, especially in the context of observations I have made lately in my web log in the internet, as I left the store and walked back to my apartment and I wondered, as I always wonder about the suspicious behavior of people in that grocery store, if someone in the back office had automatically adjusted the prices on my items so that such a total would be reached. Perhaps. But that becomes less likely the more I think about it. I wasn't consciously calculating a running total of the items I was selecting as I already had decided in my mind before I went in there as to what I would buy. Looking at the receipt, the prices are consistent with what I remember from the shelves where I got the items. I wondered why did that happen today. That happened today and that first time in years and decades since I bought Lifesavers candy.
Of course, according to my time traveler communication theory then that had to happen. I write about it here now in my journal and then it has to happen. Okay, so since everything I record in my journal has to happen then just ten minutes after I post this note, I will get an email telling me where that house is that still belongs to me, which is in this local area, and that I can go there at that very moment if I want to. Since I am now writing this in my journal then that has to happen because that is what I strongly want to happen. A universe time paradox of galactic scale will happen if I do not get that email ten minutes later.
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/w/windtalkers-script-transcript-wind-talkers.html
Windtalkers
We've got some new radiomen
from headquarters.
Private Whitehorse...
and Yahzee...
and a couple of sergeants...
Enders and Henderson...
who, if I'm understanding
these orders correctly...
will be covering our Navajos' asses.
God damn you, Joe Enders.
...but I'm telling you...
we're going to be stepping into
our share of the shit, nonetheless.
Any questions?
Sounds like you're dying.
These might help get rid of the taste.
Charlie and I both lost it
on the boat ride from San Diego.
Not many bodies of water in Arizona.
Life Savers really helped.
You want a Life Saver?
What are you doing here?
Just trying to help.
Not what I meant.
You mean, what am I doing in this uniform?
It's my war, too, Sergeant.
I'm fighting for my country,
for my land, for my people.
It's not your people I'm worried about.
Listen, Enders, I'm a codetalker.
It takes me two and a half minutes
to do what used to take an hour.
Somebody wearing a lot more stripes
than you thinks that's worth something.
Remind me to time you when you've got
bullets flying over your head.
What the hell is wrong with you?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 July 2011 excerpt ends]
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-19/news/mn-542_1_magnetic-field
Los Angeles Times
Tantalizing Taste of Things to Come : Voyager Discovers Magnetic Field on Neptune
August 19, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
For the first time, the spacecraft Voyager has detected intense radio signals coming from Neptune, revealing that the planet has a magnetic field and indicating that next week's close encounter will be as intriguing as scientists had hoped.
The discovery suggests that the spacecraft will find a wide range of interesting phenomena as it passes close to the distant planet Thursday night, including the kind of auroral activity that produces the northern and southern lights on Earth.
The signals were first detected last Monday, but scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were not sure they were coming from Neptune, according to James Warwick, principal investigator on the planetary radio astronomy experiment.
Not What Was Expected
"Their character was different than what we were expecting," Warwick said.
"The radio emissions are very intense," Warwick said, adding that they came in short, powerful bursts over a limited frequency range. Scientists had expected radio signals from Neptune, but they were looking for something less intense and less limited in frequencies.
Warwick and fellow scientists working on the project decided to announce the discovery Friday after they grew more confident of what they were seeing.
The discovery means Neptune has a strong magnetic field because radio waves are generated by charged particles that become trapped in the magnetic field and spiral into the planet's atmosphere.
It is the same process that produces the northern lights on Earth. Charged particles from space flow along the Earth's magnetic field lines and into the atmosphere at either the North or South Pole, producing the celestial fireworks over the higher latitudes. Now, Voyager is expected to see the same thing at Neptune.
Within 3,000 Miles
The Voyager spacecraft, which will make its fourth and final planetary flyby next week when it passes within about 3,000 miles of Neptune's cloud tops, used a radio receiver and a giant pair of "rabbit ears" to detect the radio emissions--just as it did at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Each 33-foot-long ear scans a series of frequencies and, since they work separately, the "polarization," or vibration, of the signals can be determined, thus distinguishing between radio signals generated by lightning and those created by a magnetic field.
"We know we are dealing with a magnetic field," Warwick said.
The discovery of a magnetic field also tells scientists something about the interior of Neptune. The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the movement of its molten iron core, and Neptune's strong magnetic field suggests that Neptune also has a region of fluid in its interior.
Venus, Mars and probably Pluto do not have magnetic fields.
Early analysis of the data from Voyager indicates that Neptune's magnetic field is similar in intensity to Earth's.
As more and more data is collected on the magnetic field, scientists will be able to determine more precisely the length of a Neptunian day--the time it takes for one rotation. That is believed to be about 18 hours, but by the time Voyager is through that figure should be known exactly.
Until now, scientists have known little about Neptune other than such things as its atmospheric composition, which includes the methane that makes it appear blue. But Voyager will pass right over the planet's north pole, and that is fortuitous for scientists who are interested in its magnetic field. That trajectory will carry it through the intense field where charged particles are being funneled into the polar atmosphere, and that should reveal much about the field.
In fact, by the time Voyager zips past Neptune it will have collected enough data for scientists to learn more about its magnetic field than any other planet except Earth.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-18/news/mn-568_1_neptune
Los Angeles Times
Predicting Neptune : Experts Play Guessing Game on What Voyager Finds
August 18, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
Who says scientists are cautious folk?
A couple of years ago Prof. Alexander Dessler of Rice University suggested that his fellow planetologists lay it on the line and predict what the spacecraft Voyager would find when it offered them their first close look at Neptune. That encounter is coming next week.
Dessler, then editor of Geophysical Review Letters and normally a congenial fellow not given to mischievousness, thought it would be "fun" to put his colleagues on the spot.
It was a bold suggestion because if there is one thing that the Voyager has revealed during its 12-year odyssey through the solar system, it is that the outer planets are full of surprises.
The response to Dessler's request has been rather surprising. Scientists across the country have laid out their predictions in Geophysical Review Letters, which is the official journal of the American Geophysical Union.
By next Thursday evening, the one-ton robot will reveal who was right and who was wrong when it zips over the cloud tops of Neptune, makes a 45-degree turn with the help of the planet's gravity, and then slips past Neptune's oddball moon, Triton. It will be Voyager's fourth and final encounter with a planet.
The close encounter promises to provide enough information to rewrite the textbooks, because many of the theories about the distant planet will be disproved. That conclusion is based on the track record Voyager compiled at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, where many expectations turned out to be wrong.
Here are some of the predictions for what Voyager will find at Neptune.
Prediction: Neptune has a polar ring.
The answer to this one may dictate Voyager's very survival. Anthony R. Dobrovolskis and Thomas Y. Steiman of NASA's Ames Research Center and Nichole J. Borderies of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory speculated in a report in the August issue of Geophysical Research Letters that Neptune may have a ring of debris orbiting its polar regions. At other planets, most notably Saturn, rings orbit around the equator.
But Neptune is odd in that its largest moon, Triton, travels in a highly unusual orbit that carries it far above and below Neptune's equator.
That peculiar orbit, the scientists have concluded, might cause rings to form far from the planet's equator because Triton's gravity would tend to "shepherd" material into polar rings.
"Voyager 2 stands a significant chance of encountering a polar ring," the three scientists wrote. In non-technical terms, that means hold onto your seats.
Traveling at 17 miles per second, if Voyager smashes into even a few dust-sized particles, the impact could wipe out the venerable spacecraft. The picture show would end even before Voyager reaches Triton five hours after the Neptune flyby.
Dessler considers that possibility "scary."
"This was the most spectacular prediction," Dessler said. Most scientists seem to think the prediction is not likely to come true, and by the end of next week, three bold souls will be regarded as either prophets or--fortunately for Voyager--mistaken.
Prediction: Triton has a very thin atmosphere.
The journal has published more than 20 papers over the last few months in response to Dessler's challenge, and the results indicate there is about as much interest in Triton as there is in Neptune. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation, leading many scientists to believe that it did not form with Neptune but was instead a passing body that became trapped in the large planet's gravitational field.
About the only thing that is known about Triton is that it has an atmosphere. S. Alan Stern of the University of Colorado speculated in a response to Dessler's challenge that Triton's atmosphere is extremely thin. He believes Triton's atmospheric pressure is probably no more than 100 millibars, compared to the Earth's sea level pressure of slightly over 1,000 millibars. But he also said it could be as low as 1/100th of a millibar.
"That's a range of 10,000," Dessler observed. "Everybody agrees it's got to be in there somewhere." Thus Stern is considered pretty safe in his prediction.
Prediction: Neptune will have lightning in its atmosphere.
Some of the snapshots from Neptune should look familiar. Scientists expect the planet's heavy atmosphere to have lightning. That is because convection in a planet's atmosphere, like that which occurs in boiling water, is what causes lightning.
W. J. Borucki of Ames Research Center predicts that Neptune will, indeed, have lightning.
Voyager should record approximately 60 lightning events during its flyby, Borucki speculated. That is only about 1/19th as much activity as seen at Jupiter, another gaseous giant.
Prediction: Neptune has a strong magnetic field.
Since all of this was Dessler's idea, it is worth noting that he is a bit out on a limb. He is the co-author of two papers predicting what Voyager will find at Neptune.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-18/news/mn-568_1_neptune/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Predicting Neptune : Experts Play Guessing Game on What Voyager Finds
August 18, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
Dessler's predictions concern Neptune's magnetosphere, the huge area around the planet that is ruled by Neptune's magnetic field.
Neptune's dynamic cloud activity suggests that the planet is heated from within, making it--like the Earth--a dynamo.
"So it ought to have a strong magnetic field," Dessler said.
However, Voyager has detected no radio waves from Neptune, and "that is really surprising" because a strong magnetic field would be expected to produce radio waves, he added.
The strength of the magnetic field, and the absence of radio waves, has led Dessler to conclude that Neptune's magnetosphere is surprisingly quite "like it's asleep." That would make it an extremely unusual planet.
Prediction: Neptune will have a very weak radiation belt.
If so, "there won't be any bright auroras, nothing of any consequence." On Earth, auroras produce northern and southern lights, so Dessler does not expect to find them when Voyager zips over Neptune's north pole.
Prediction: Neptune will have strong "northern lights."
Andrew F. Cheng of Johns Hopkins University couldn't disagree with Dessler more. He has predicted that Neptune's magnetosphere is much like the Earth's, producing strong auroras and energetic radiation belts.
http://www.tv.com/shows/better-call-saul/klick-3367433/
tv.com
Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 10
Klick
Aired Monday 10:00 PM Apr 18, 2016 on AMC
AIRED: 4/18/16
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=better-call-saul-2015&episode=s02e10
Springfield! Springfield!
Better Call Saul
Klick
You got a little, uh, uh, project going' on? Uh, something you maybe wanna tell me about? What do you say Chuck?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/quotes
IMDb
Solaris (2002)
Quotes
Chris Kelvin: Earth. Even the word sounded strange to me now... unfamiliar. How long had I been gone? How long had I been back? Did it matter? I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live. I followed the current. I was silent, attentive, I made a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand, and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on earth. I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again. But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong, and somehow I was wrong about everything.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA01363
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
IMAGES OCTOBER 14, 1999
3 Images of Neptune
These three images of Neptune were acquired 90 minutes apart by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on April 3, 1989, from a range of 208 million kilometers (129 million miles). Several atmospheric features (clouds) are visible. In addition to the dark band encircling the south polar region, a large dark spot extends from latitude 20 S. to 30 S. and spans 35 degrees in longitude. It rotates with a period between 17 and 18 hours. Relative to the size of the planet, the spot's dimensions are similar to those of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. These images were taken exclusively through the clear filter of the narrow angle camera, which is most sensitive to blue light. The spot is 10 percent darker than its surroundings. Resolution of the images is about 3850 kilometers (2400 miles) per line pair. Images taken 70 days earlier show either the same spot or a similar spot, which appears darker than its surroundings through the clear filter but brighter through the orange filter. Clouds visible in the orange images are thought to be at higher altitudes than those visible here, and may have different scattering properties at the two wavelengths. The Voyager cameras will be tracking these atmospheric features during the next three months in order to target them for close-up imaging in the days before the spacecraft's closest approach to Neptune on August 24, 1989.
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From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 1/5/2015 is 8696 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/24/1989 ( the closest approach of the United States Voyager 2 spacecraft to the planet Neptune ) is 8696 days
From 12/20/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" ) To 1/5/2015 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
From 8/3/1955 ( premiere US film "To Catch a Thief" ) To 10/5/2004 ( Rodney Dangerfield deceased ) is 17961 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/5/2015 is 17961 days
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AUTOSPORT
FORMULA 1
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, ex-F1 driver and 1972 Monaco GP winner, dies
Published on Monday January 5th 2015
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, the French Formula 1 driver who took BRM's last grand prix win in Monaco in 1972, has died. He was 77.
Having originally started as a successful motorcycle racer, capturing 11 French national titles, Beltoise would go on to prove he had just as much speed on four wheels.
However, his career was nearly ended after suffering serious injuries in a crash at the Reims 12 Hours sportscar race in 1964. He would never regain full movement in his badly broken left arm.
Beltoise did make it back to racing, though, and after claiming titles in Formula 3 and Formula 2 with Matra, he moved up to F1 with the French outfit.
His actual race debut came at the 1967 United States Grand Prix, as he had failed to qualify in Monaco, and his first podium finish came the following year in the Netherlands when he finished second.
He would stay racing Matras until the end of 1971, briefly working with Ken Tyrrell, before making a switch to BRM that would deliver his maiden F1 victory.
The start of that 1972 season was frustrating, but Beltoise was in a class of his own in a Monaco downpour and achieved his only - and BRM's final - triumph in F1.
He stayed with BRM for another two seasons before retiring from F1 at the end of 1974 and switching his focus to sportscars and then finally French touring cars.
He also regularly competed in ice racing and rallycross, and tested Ligier's F1 car.
Beltoise married Francois Cevert's sister Jacqueline, and their sons Anthony and Julien both followed him into motor racing.
He passed away after suffering two strokes at his holiday home near Dakar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-2898138/Former-Formula-One-winner-Jean-Pierre-Beltoise-dies-age-77.html
Daily Mail
Mail Online
Former Formula One winner Jean-Pierre Beltoise dies at the age of 77
Jean-Pierre Beltoise won the Monaco Grand Prix in torrential rain in 1972
He died in Senegal on Monday at the age of 77, where he has a home
Pierre Fillon, president of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest paid tribute
He said: 'One of the great names in French motor sport has left us'
By ALAN BALDWIN REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 19:48 EST, 5 January 2015 UPDATED: 19:50 EST, 5 January 2015
French former Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who won the Monaco Grand Prix in torrential rain in 1972, died in Senegal on Monday at the age of 77.
The French motor sport federation (FFSA) and Le Mans organisers paid tribute to Beltoise, whose Monaco victory was the 17th and last by the now-defunct BRM team, and hailed his prowess on two wheels and four.
'One of the great names in French motor sport has left us,' said Pierre Fillon, president of Le Mans 24 Hours organisers the Automobile Club de l'Ouest.
'Jean-Pierre will forever be remembered as a flamboyant driver who was so proud to fly his country's colours and take part in the revival of French teams in the 60s and 70s.'
The Paris-born driver died in Dakar, where he had a holiday home, after suffering a stroke and haemorrhage. He had been in a coma since Friday.
Beltoise started out as a motorcycle racer, winning 11 French championships, before switching to sportscar racing and Formula One despite a bad crash in 1964 that seriously injured his left arm.
He made his F1 debut with Matra in 1967, although he had finished eighth in the 1966 German Grand Prix at the wheel of a Formula Two car, and stayed with the team until the end of 1971, when he switched to BRM.
The Frenchman, who married the sister of fellow F1 driver and compatriot Francois Cevert, left Formula One in 1974 after chalking up eight podium finishes from 84 starts.
http://en.espn.co.uk/f1/motorsport/driver/891.html
ESPN
Full name Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise
Birth date April 26, 1937
Birthplace Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Date of death January 5, 2015
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/ninety-years-without-slumbering-12717/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 12
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Aired Unknown Dec 20, 1963 on CBS
Quotes
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: Each man measures his time; some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time by a grandfather's clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time--in the Twilight Zone.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/ninety-years-without-slumbering-12717/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 12
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Aired Unknown Dec 20, 1963 on CBS
Quotes
(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Clocks are made by men, God creates time. No man can prolong his allotted hours, he can only live them to the fullest--in this world or in the Twilight Zone.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/releaseinfo
IMDb
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Release Dates
USA 3 August 1955 (Los Angeles, California)
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
Cary Grant ... John Robie
Grace Kelly ... Frances Stevens
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Rodney Dangerfield
Biography
Date of Birth 22 November 1921, Deer Park, Long Island, New York, USA
Date of Death 5 October 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from heart surgery)
Birth Name Jacob Cohen
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/05/pioneer-marshal.html ]
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Bill Summary & Status
108th Congress (2003 - 2004)
H.R.4870
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H.R.4870
Latest Title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the effective date for payment of lump sums to persons awarded the Medal of Honor who are in receipt of special pension pursuant to section 1562 of such title, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Green, Mark [WI-8] (introduced 7/20/2004) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 10/5/2004 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
SUMMARY AS OF:
7/20/2004--Introduced.
Revises the effective date for payment of lump sums to persons awarded the Medal of Honor who are in receipt of special pensions.
Requires payment of such lump sums to specified family members, in order of preference, if the person eligible for the payment is deceased or was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.
7/20/2004:
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
10/5/2004:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the effective date for payment of lump sums to persons awarded the Medal of Honor who are in receipt of special pension pursuant to section 1562 of such title, and for other purposes.
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Frances Stevens: Doesn't it make you nervous to be in the same room with thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, and unable to touch them?
John Robie: No.
Frances Stevens: Like an alcoholic outside of a bar on Election Day?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/19/08 08/19/08 4:09 AM
Every time I look at this photo of the Saturn moon Phoebe I always tend to linger on that location marked Euphemus.
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I am not certain if that is where I landed or if it is just an area of high interest to me.
As I was waking up a few minutes ago, my waking or half-sleeping mind was pondering the landing cycle I made on 6/7/1976 and I was thinking of such details as the burn I made in my landing craft after I separated from the Orion ship. The Orion ship proceeded for some kind of orbital rendevous with the planet Saturn and I broke away from the intertia of the Orion ship so I could plunge into the gravity of the moon Phoebe. I made a long burn about 1 hour before landing and then I rotated around to view the approach and then made some minor thruster burns before the final approach. The sunrise cycle on the moon Phoebe is about 9 hours and I landed about 6 hours before the next sunrise. I took a nap on a special kind of couch I had in that landing craft and then I woke up about 3 hours later and began suiting up for EVA which was more difficult because my right arm was still barely usable. I awoke today thinking I was in very good spirits though. I went outside to watch the sunrise and to survey the terrain and I had a camera set to first capture my egress to the surface for the first time and then to record me watching the sunrise. I spoke to myself about how I had been anticipating that moment watching the sun rise over the horizon of the Saturn moon Phoebe back in November 1975 as Phoebe and I watched the sun rise that morning before I left Earth. I also commented to the camera that the surface of the Saturn moon Phoebe was probably the spookiest place I had ever been and I had been to 3 other spooky places before in my life.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 August 2008 excerpt ends]
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Springfield! Springfield!
Limitless
Finale: Part One!
But, Gary, is that journalist from Consumer Reports gonna be there at your house when your friends come over and see just a regular TV on your wall? Will he say, "Huh. Gary is usually a cutting-edge guy, "but in this case, he made a cautious and sensible choice. "I guess we laud him for being a cautious and sensible man"?
Let's do this.
Remind me again which TV we're talking about.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:56 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 14 September 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/09/ronald-reagan-remarks-on-arrival-in.html
So anyway what's been going through my mind was one day back in Ashdown Arkansas.
I've written long ago somewhere about this memory.
If I recall correctly then that was the first time I met my sister Melissa's youngest daughter, Caitlin. That must have been the year 1992. The year I wrote about when I lived and worked in Memphis. That is the only possible explanation, I wrote, for why I was driving that RX-7 in Ashdown.
I wrote about how I was at Thedia's Brookside apartment in Ashdown. My cigarette lighter fell out of my pocket of my black silk shirt I was wearing. That always seems to be a big deal to me in the context of memory. As though my "mother" learning I had started smoking was something important.
That seems ridiculous in recent day's thinking because if she had not married Denzil that I am very certain I would have never started using snuff tobacco. I got bored with Skoal about 1982 or so and switched to the worse product Copenhagen. By the year 1988, the way I remember, we were on our way to the Persian Gulf and the clerk in the ship's store told me they weren't selling Copenhagen anymore so instead of thinking about toughing out the inevitable nicotine withdrawal I opted out for a carton of Marlboro Lights.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 September 2015 excerpt ends]
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The Terminator (1984)
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Kyle Reese: The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 5
Cobalt
Aired Sunday Sep 27, 2015 on AMC
AIRED: 9/27/15
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Springfield! Springfield!
Fear The Walking Dead
Cobalt
Why'd you do that? What you did with the guard, you saved me.
No, I obligated you. There's a difference. The game has changed. We return to the old rules. And the people who won the last round with their grande lattes and their frequent flyer miles are about to become the buffet. I look at you and I see someone who knows the meaning of necessity.
Well, I'm an addict.
No, you are a heroin addict. That's the gold standard. Don't sell yourself short.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 2006
Reading about them riding in that small transport plane for debriefing reminds me of something similar in my memory, I'm pretty sure I wrote about this a couple years ago. I was leaving the Wainwright to return to the States for the end of my enlistment. We were anchored off Monaco and I had to ride in to port in the Captain's gig. Our Senior Chief, who later became Master Chief, met me on the quarterdeck to shake my hand and send me off. I can't remember his name now, but I remember someone on the Wainwright forum mentioned running into him in Florida a while back. I was traveling to Toulon to catch a MAC flight back to Philadelphia I think it was and from there to Charleston. I think it was about a two hour trip from Monaco to Toulon and I had to travel all the way there in the back of the mail truck, sitting cramped up on a bunch of boxes.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/23/2006 3:55 PM
The Captain’s Yacht. That is what I was trying to remember here. I can’t remember anything about that particular boat on a Burke-class destroyer, but I remember that when I left the Wainwright in 1990 to return to the States, we were anchored off the coast of Monaco and I took the Captain’s yacht, or did we call it the Captains’ gig, in to port.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 October 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal June 14, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Sarajevo ! ?? What is it about Sarajevo??? That struck me as I saw something about it on the news today. I can remember thinking about Sarajevo back at Microsoft because I think Sharon was from Yugoslavia, or maybe not Yugoslavia, but somewhere nearby I think. It was somewhere that made me think of Sarajevo. I don't think she was from Sarajevo, but I don't know. I didn't really talk to her about it because my memory told me that I almost went to Sarajevo. When I left the Wainwright in Monaco, Dubrovnik was their next stop. Mogge told me later that it had been a nice place to visit but I was better off leaving the ship to head back to the States for my new job. As soon as I heard them mention Sarajevo, I'm not sure how to describe it. It feels like my mind got heavier, heavier with forgotten memories.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 June 2006 excerpt ends]
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:20 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 April 2016
