re japanese moon landing in article c kys c r panix com dannyb panix com daniel burstein writes a short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention about how the japanese using what sounded like a gravity assist had just managed to crash or crash land a package on the moon their hiten engineering test mission spent a while in a highly eccentric earth orbit doing lunar flybys and then was inserted into lunar orbit using some very tricky gravity assist like maneuvering this meant that it would crash on the moon eventually since there is no such thing as a stable lunar orbit as far as anyone knows and i believe i recall hearing recently that it was about to happen all work is one man s work henry spencer u of toronto zoology kipling henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
