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From: mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink)
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Subject: Re: Voyager, on to Uranus. (and beyond)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 17:01:57 EDT
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I found out a few days ago that JPL is really worried about Neptune's
*ring* preventing a Triton encounter when they called to ask for a 
preprint of a paper I just wrote on stellar occultations by Neptune
through 1990.  They're going to observe as many as possible to get
some statistics on the *ring*.  The *ring* will be hard to track
down, though, as many careful occultation observations have failed
to show it--I've co-authored two papers which report a lack of an
observable ring around Neptune.  The occultation business was getting
sort of boring; Neptune seems to keep livening things up.
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		Doug Mink
		Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysic
		{harvard|genrad|allegra|ihnp4}!wjh12!cfa!mink
		normally in Cambridge, Mass.,
		but at Johnson Space Center, Houston, for Spacelab 2.