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The Heavy Nuclei Experiment on HEAO-3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W. R. Binns
Affiliation:
McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories, St. Louis, MO
R. Fickle
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
T. L. Garrard
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
M. H. Israel
Affiliation:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
J. Klarmann
Affiliation:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
E. C. Stone
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
C. J. Waddington
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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The third High Energy Astronomical Observatory, HEAO-3 was launched on the 20th Sept., 1979 into a 496 km, 43.6° orbit, and has since been successfully returning data from all three experiments on board. One of these experiments, that intended to study the heavy and ultra heavy nuclei in the cosmic radiation, is described here.

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Research Article
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