LPL Discovery Proposals
- Occult Studies
- Bill Hubbard playing Tarot cards, "I thought I was successfully funded to continue my occultation research, but due to a typo, I'm actually funded for occult research."
- Mars Observer Observer (MOO)
- Alfred McEwen maps the debris pattern of Mars Observer.
- Far-Away Asteroid Rendezvous (FAAR)
- Tom Gehrels interprets one bright pixel.
- Really Impractical Tethering Zystem (RITZ)
- Bill Boynton demonstrates, once and for all, that 5-km tethers do not work, anywhere in the zolar zystem.
- Lunar Fast Flythrough
- Jay Melosh explains the use of lithobraking.
- Returning Angular Momentum (RAM)
- Carolyn Porco is concerned about stealing momentum from other planets by using them for gravity assists. This mission will orbit planets in the opposite way and give it all back, because a solar system without Jupiter is one not worth living in.
- Pluto Local
- Bob Brown explains the multiple (28) gravity assists, it¹s already done 5 or 6, it will arrive in 2138.
- We're Going To Mercury and Weíre Going to Map the Whole Planet, Dammit! (WGMWGMWPD)
- Bob Strom
- Commentators mention Randy Jokipii's Solar Windbreaker and Tim Swindle's proposal to Search for Meteorites in a Bar in New Orleans During Mardi Gras.