>Sad.

very, it still had a useable lifetime left.

>But, all our children have to leave hpme and make a life of their own.
>Think of what fun it will be having.

Whizz, around the moon we go again ...

>When did it get lost?

Umm, not exactly sure, sometime during the last 9 weeks I have been away 
from my desk (I had other problems in the form of an ailing father to 
content with to really notice the date). I do remember seeing about 2 column 
inches on it in the Dominion Post, and it also got mentioned on the radio 
news in NZ.

I guess the trouble now is that it is a piece of space junk in 
semi-permanent orbit around the moon. I think the "End Of Life" plan was to 
crash it into the moon like they did with Smart-1, partly to observe the 
resultant dust cloud (at least Smart-1 made a better cloud than the NASA 
attempt ... ) and partly so there is no junk to dodge on future moon 
missions. However it will apparently crash into the moon in about 3 years, 
as the gravitational anomalies perturb the orbit until eventually it 
crashes. 

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