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From: pdbain@bnr-vpa.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: "Let's make it clear" department
Message-ID: <76@bnr-vpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 08:24:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 08:24:04 1986
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>Subject: StarDate: January 2: The First Artificial Planet

>Some Western observers later concluded that Mechta was meant to impact
>the moon -- but missed.  An impact mission can return data from much
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>closer to the moon.  But a lunar flyby would operate longer and could
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>sample a greater area of space.

No kidding :-)