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From: mfc@hp-pcd.UUCP (mfc)
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Subject: Re: Re: another 2010 mistake
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 12:35:00 EST
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	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

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