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From: kellogg@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Rob -Not from Bloom County- Binkley)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Cargo
Summary: Billions and billions of answers.
Message-ID: <371@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Oct 89 18:25:44 GMT
References: <9396@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: kellogg@skipper.UUCP (Gary Kellogg - No relation to Tony the Tiger)
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In article <9396@pyr.gatech.EDU> ken@pyr.gatech.edu.gatech.edu (Ken Hall) writes:
>Can anyone tell me whether the plutonium-257 aboard the last flight occurs
>naturally in the earth or if it's synthetic?
>
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Here's a quote that might shed some light (or radiation) on the subject:

"Beyond uranium there are other elements that do not naturally occur on Earth.
They are synthesized by human beings and in most cases promptly fall to pieces.
One of them, Element 94, is called plutonium and is one of the most toxic
substances known.  Unfortunately, it falls to pieces rather slowly."

					     COSMOS
					     by Carl Sagan 

Gary Kellogg	kellogg@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov