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...everyone at NASA is convinced that Goldin's thrift-shop ships are up to the trips. "Faster and cheaper is not necessarily better," says Ray Newburn, a veteran astronomer with 41 years of experience working on J.P.L. missions. "It's nice to have some small missions where you don't have all your eggs in one basket. But you can't always be cheap about missions that go way out and have to last a decade or more...
...Rowley 3-6 2-2 9; Butler 6-13 2-2 16; Kapetanovic 0-5 0-2 0; Krasinski 4-8 2-2 10; Vandiver 0-2 0-0 0; White 1-4 0-0 2; Forbes 0-0 0-0 0; Rountree 1-1 2-2 4; Newburn 0-0 1-2 1; Sewer 0-0 00-0 0; Perry 0-0 0-0 0; Catapano 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS...
...Halley Watch (IHW), a vast effort to coordinate the megabytes of comet information that will be generated both by the probes and at ground-based observatories around the world. According to the latest figures, some 900 professional astronomers from 47 countries will participate in the international venture. Says Ray Newburn, director of IHW for the Western Hemisphere: "We're going to learn more about comets in the next few months than we have in the whole history of cometary science...
...NEWBURN President
Borden got a year's leave of absence, and Newburn is off to become a professor at Arizona State University. But Montana is used to losing good people. Billings alone recently had nine boys at Harvard, and eight of them were on the dean's list. Once away, such exiles rarely return. One professor calls this "the single most damaging economic and psychological aspect of Montana...