Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!mfc From: mfc@hp-pcd.UUCP (mfc) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: another 2010 mistake Message-ID: <6500038@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 12:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.6500038 Posted: Sun Dec 9 12:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:12:41 EST References: <1115@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:ut-ngp:-111500:hp-pcd:6500038:000:729 Nf-From: hp-pcd!mfc Dec 13 09:35:00 1984 The material covering the Discovery is raw sulfur spewn up from the volcanic activity on Io. If you read any of Voyager findings about the Jovian system, you will recall that a tremendous amount of magnetic and electrical flux constantly exists between Jupiter and it's satellites. It seems logical to me that any metallic object (like a spacecraft) remaining in this type of environment is bound to pick up at least a small surface charge. Since sulfur is not a balanced charge element it is reasonable to assume that it might react to such a surface charge and be electro-magnetically attracted back towards the skin of the Discovery. Mark F. Cook HP-PCD Corvallis, OR ...hplabs!hp-pcd!mfc