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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
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Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90
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Date: 5 Nov 90 18:46:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov3.050407.1642@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <4680@cvl.umd.edu> herve@cvl.UUCP (Jean-Yves Herve') writes:
>>There is just one little thing that bugs me: how come the Galileo are given
>>with funny units only, while the Ulysses report have both metric and funny
>>units?
>
>Probably because Ulysses is a European project and hence the European
>audience is being considered.  Unless I miss my guess, the numbers from
>JPL et al are metric, and the NASA PR people are translating them for the
>Great Unwashed... but for mostly-European projects they are constrained
>to also supply civilized units.

Ulysses is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency, so the
units are given in both miles and the funny metric units :-).
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