Am 15.09.2017 um 20:25 schrieb Stephen:
> On 15/09/2017 13:00, clipka wrote:
>> The Cassini space probe is officially no more.
>>
> 
> Didn't it do well?

I guess it did. Just ran out of gas, with no spare canister on board and
miles from the next gas station. So rather than risk it ending up
crashing into a potentially-inhabited moon with 40 kg of Pu238 and who
knows how many colonies of earth microbes on board, they decided to let
it burn up in Saturn's atmosphere.

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