This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A belated farwell... ...to Pioneer 10, the little spacecraft that could. Originally sent out = to the Asteroid belt and then on to Jupiter. It was the first spacecraft = to travel through the Asteroid belt and the first to make direct = obversations and close-up photographs of Jupiter. Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972--the year I finally joined = PTG--and was last heard from on January 23. Efforts to raise her on = February 7th failed and there will be no more attempts made; she now = sails on in peace. At some 7.6 billion miles from Earth, she is now the = most distant object ever made by man and, on her present course, will = reach the vacinity of the red star Aldebaran in some 2 million years. = Have a good trip, little one. Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Designer & Builder Hoquiam, Washington 98550 USA 360.532-2563 360.532-6688 pianobuilders@olynet.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/48/24/bf/a5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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