[FPSPACE] FW: Student Dust Counter Renamed "Venetia, " Honoring Girl Who Named Pluto

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Student Dust Counter Renamed "Venetia," Honoring Girl Who Named    
>           Pluto
>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:06:20 -0400
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>Pluto Mission News
>June 29, 2006
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>Student Dust Counter Renamed "Venetia," Honoring Girl Who Named Pluto
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>The student-built science instrument on NASA's New Horizons mission to
>Pluto has been renamed to honor one of astronomy's most famous students
>- the "little girl" who named the ninth planet more than 75 years ago.
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>For the rest of the New Horizons spacecraft's voyage to Pluto and the
>Kuiper Belt beyond, the Student Dust Counter - the first science
>instrument on a NASA planetary mission to be designed, built and
>operated by students - will be known as the Venetia Burney Student Dust
>Counter, or "Venetia" for short. The tag honors Venetia Burney Phair,
>who at age 11 offered the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered ninth
>planet in 1930.
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>"I feel quite astonished, and to have an instrument named after me is an
>honor," says Mrs. Phair, now 87 and living in Epsom, England. "I never
>dreamt when I was 11, that after all these years, people would still be
>thinking about this and even sending a probe to Pluto. It's remarkable."
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>The instrument is set to begin full science operations in July after a
>series of post-launch tests and checkouts. Click here
><http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/062906.html>  for the full
>story, or visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/062906.html
><http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/062906.html> .
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>New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky,
>icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest
>Research Institute (SwRI), leads a mission team that includes the Johns
>Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ball Aerospace
>Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
>Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX, Inc., Lockheed
>Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of
>Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers and university
>partners. For more information on the mission, visit
>http://pluto.jhuapl.edu <http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/> .
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