A Tel Aviv University astronomer is one of a small team of specialists analyzing data radioed back to earth from the unmanned U. S. spacecraft Voyager Il when it passed within 50,000 miles of Uranus last Friday.
Prof. Aharon Avitar flew to Pasadena, Calif. last week at the invitation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories to join the 17-member plasma study team there. He is a member of Tel Aviv University’s Planetary Studies Circle which is headed by Prof. Yehoyakin Yosef. The Israeli group had been concentrating on Uranus recently.
Voyager II is now more than 2.5 million miles from Uranus, travelling at 33,000 miles per hour for a 1989 rendezvous with the planet Neptune. The plasma team is part of staff of 200 scientists examining the data.
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