Talk:Solar Wind Spectrometer

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Did you know... that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 09:25, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface? Source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JA079i016p02287
- ALT1: ... that the Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface? Source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JA079i016p02287
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jetson_One

Created by Seddon (talk). Self-nominated at 19:28, 17 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Solar Wind Spectrometer; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough, long enough, well cited, DKY check all green. GTG. Surprising this hasn't been covered before! Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Startup Times and Dates[edit]

The subsections for the two experiments (Apollo 12 and Apollo 15) under Missions have identical text for when they started, "... on the surface of the moon on July 31, 1971 and was powered on at 19:37 UTC.". The one for Apollo 12 is clearly incorrect, since that mission occurred in November 1969. Kelseymh (talk) 03:28, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]