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Welcome to Wikipedia! May I call you "24" for short? [[Ed Poor]]
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I have no problem with rewrites, they generally improve articles, but I have a big problem with people removing whole articles of relatively uncontroversial stuff that no one else has bothered to define or research at all.  Also with people who assume that just because a political party advocates it, it must be somehow biased or wrong.

I am not a "vandal" and don't like that term.  I'm getting used to the process here.  I am not sure I like serious essays being labelled 'junk' by some golfer or geek.

It's not like I don't have a theory of what I'm doing.  Check the entries in the meta defining ethics and NPOV itself.  You might see where I'm coming from and why I think certain things are important and others might not be.  I want my facts straight, but I don't want to see typo-corrections reversed by a clique of self-appointed gurus.  What you need here is a consensus process.
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''Note: I extracted the above three quotes from the talk after moving all but my welcome to the talk page. Please forgive me if I have overstepped my bounds. [[user:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]], Wednesday, April 10, 2002{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width="400" style="margin:10px"
|+<font size="+1">''' Luna 11 '''</font>
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000" align="center" font size="-1" color="#ffffff"|[[Image:Luna_orbiter_photo_bus.jpg |375px|Luna 11]]
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|''' Organization:'''||[[Soviet Union]]
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|''' Major Contractors:'''|| [[Lavochkin|GSMZ Lavochkin]]
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|''' Mission Type:'''|| [[Planetary Science]] Lunar Orbit
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|''' Satellite of:'''|| [[Moon]]
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|''' Launch:'''|| [[August 24]], [[1966]] at 08:03:00 [[UTC]]
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|''' Launch Vehicle:'''|| Molniya 8K78M (4-Stage R-7 / SS-6)
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|''' Mission Highlight:'''|| Entered lunar orbit on <br>[[August 27]], [[1966]], 21:49 UTC. 
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|''' Mission Duration:'''|| 38-days. Last contact [[October 1]], [[1966]]
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|''' [[Mass]]:'''|| 1,640 kg
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|''' NSSDC ID:'''|| 1966-078A
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|''' Webpage:'''|| [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1966-078A NASA NSSDC Master Catalog]
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!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#skyblue"|[[Orbital elements]]
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|''' [[Semimajor Axis]]:'''|| 2,414.5 km
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|''' [[Eccentricity]]:'''|| .22
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|''' [[Inclination]]:'''|| 27°
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|''' Orbital Period:'''|| 178 minutes
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|''' Apogee:'''|| 1,193 km
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|''' Perigee:'''|| 160 km
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|''' Orbits:'''|| 277 
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!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#skyblue"|Instruments
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|''' Imaging system :'''|| Lunar photography 
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|''' Gamma-ray spectrometer :'''||  
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|''' Magnetometer :'''||  
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|''' Radiation detectors :'''||  
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|''' Infrared radiometer :'''||  
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|''' Meteoroid detector :'''||  
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|''' R-1 transmission experiment :'''||  
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'''Luna 11''' was an [[unmanned space mission]] of the Soviet Union's [[Luna program]]. It is also called Lunik 11.
Luna 11 was launched towards the [[Moon]] from an earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on August 28, 1966. The objectives of the mission included the study of:

#lunar gamma- and X-ray emissions in order to determine the Moon's chemical composition;
#lunar gravitational anomalies;
#the concentration of meteorite streams near the Moon; and,
#the intensity of hard corpuscular radiation near the Moon.

A total of 137 radio transmissions and 277 orbits of the Moon were completed before the batteries failed on October 1, 1966.

This subset of the &#8220;second-generation&#8221; Luna spacecraft, the Ye-6LF, was designed to take the first photographs of the surface of the Moon from lunar orbit. A secondary objective was to obtain data on mass concentrations
(&#8220;mascons&#8221;) on the Moon first detected by Luna 10. Using the basic Ye-6 bus, a suite of scientific instruments (plus an imaging system similar to the one used on Zond 3) replaced the small lander capsule used on the soft-landing flights. The resolution of the photos was reportedly 15 to 20 meters. A technological experiment included testing the efficiency of gear transmission in vacuum as
a test for a future lunar rover. Luna 11, launched only two weeks after the U.S. Lunar Orbiter, successfully entered lunar orbit at 21:49 UT on 27 August. Parameters were 160 x 1,193 kilometers. During the mission, the TV camera failed to return usable images because the spacecraft lost proper orientation
to face the lunar surface when a foreign object was lodged in the nozzle of one of the attitude-control thrusters. The other instruments functioned without fault before the mission formally ended on 1 October 1966 after the power supply had been depleted.

*Launch Date/Time: 1966-08-24 at 08:09:00 UTC
*On-orbit dry mass: 3616 kg
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<td width="35%">'''Preceded by ''':<br>[[Luna 10]]</td>
<td width="30%">[[Luna program]]</td>
<td width="35%">'''Followed by ''':<br>[[Luna 12]]</td>
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[[Category:Luna programme]]