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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Re: Sea floor Planetary Protection really.
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:39:00 GMT
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- In article <1hvg8sINNppt@mirror.digex.com>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes...
- >I know the Mars Observer orbit was constrained under planetary protection
- >guidelines to stay off the surface for X thousand years.
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- Mars Observer does meet this contraint and will survive in orbit until the
- year 2009 with a 99.9% probability, and will survive until 2039 with a
- 95% probability.
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