PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2007-07-27 NOTE = " E-mail and other messages concerning MGS Radio Science on or about 1998/219." END_OBJECT = TEXT END From trish@rodan.jpl.nasa.gov Thu Aug 13 15:05:58 1998 Received: from biollante.JPL.NASA.GOV (biollante.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.177.124]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA19531 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 137.78.177.117 (trish-mac.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.177.117]) by biollante.JPL.NASA.GOV (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11398; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808132206.PAA11398@biollante.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 13 Aug 98 15:15:08 -0700 From: Trish Priest Subject: Gravity during periapsis To: Sami Asmar , Georges Balmino , Paula Eshe , Pat Esposito , Frank Lemoine , Richard Simpson , Bill Sjogren , David Smith , Len Tyler , "Dah-Ning Yuan" , Maria Zuber X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.0.2d1 X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: Trish Priest Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 542 Status: RO Hello, For the first three Phobos encounters, the other science instruments will not be recording during periapsis because they will be recording Phobos data. Therefore, the spacecraft is not NADIR pointed during periapsis -- it is HGA to Earth. The first occurrence was during periapsis 476 (219-13:43:45 ERT UTC). DSS 65 was tracking. The spacecraft started slewing for the Phobos encounter at 14:08:52. As soon as I find out, I will let you know whether or not the other two encounters happen during tracking coverage. -Trish