[net.space] News Briefs from L5

dcn@ihuxl.UUCP (Dave Newkirk) (02/01/85)

Here are several interesting items from the News Briefs section of the
Nov/Dec issue of L5 News :

* IRAS detected a `miniplanet' inside the orbit of Mercury, possibly
  the remnant of a comet nucleus.

* Pioneer 10 has switched from Sol to Sirius for one of its reference
  points since the Sun is now out of its range.

* The NASA staff size is at its lowest number in the last 20 years.

* Requests for observing time on the Space Telescope (to be launched
  late next year) have already filled the available hours 15 times over.

					Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn