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2015 Planetary Exploration Crossword Puzzle
July 19, 2015

News services have been busy lately reporting on the most recent feat of America's national space agency's resounding success with its interplanetary space probe's closest encounter with our solar system's most remote [minor] planet. Prior to the flyby, even the most powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes could never resolve more than a few lightly contrasted splotches on the celestial orb's surface, and its largest moon was a few pixels worth of indeterminate light. All that changed on July 14, 2015. We now have, for the first time ever, high resolution images of the surface, and are in the process of collection terabits worth of additional physical data from onboard instruments. No doubt many Ph.D.'s will be earned through assimilation and study of this information.

I will be glad to create a special edition crossword for your newspaper, newsletter, etc.

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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

2015 Planetary Exploration Crossword Puzzle for July 19, 2015 - RF Cafe

1. Name of interplanetary space probe that just flew past 13 Down (2 wds.)

9. Type of logic gate (pl.)

10. Opposite of O.D.

11. 1e-6 mA

12. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

14. Chemical symbol for selenium

15. Mass unit (abbr.)

17. Chemical symbol for lead

18. Chemical symbol for chlorine

20. Part of a screw that engages the driver (pl.)

24. Its chemical symbol is Fe

27. A keyboard key

28. He, along with Mr. Savart, developed a law that describes a magnetic field generated by an electric current

30. A concern of Boolean equations

32. Constellation : The dragon

33. With 39 Down, this website's title

34. Opposite of a LO

35. Association of North American Radio Clubs

40. Planet from which 1 Across was launched

44. Considered the 4th dimension

45. The UK's largest defense electronics contractor (abbr.)

47. Forerunner to NASA

48. A processed or unprocessed semiconductor substrate

50. Type of logic gate

52. Chemical symbol for bismuth

53. "Calling any amateur radio station"

54. Chemical symbol for polonium

55. Nordic Mobile Telephone

57. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.)

59. 1e3 uV

60. Cooling device

61. Constellation : The archer

1. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)

2. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

3. The "H" in UHF

4. Opposite of I.D.

5. One port of an amplifier

6. Hits a component with an electrostatic discharge

7. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

8. System On Chip

9. The process by which a body moves back and forth through a central neutral position

13. The planet and its largest moon that 1 Across just flew past (2 wds.)

16. American space agency that launched 1 Across (abbr.)

19. Numerical basis for decibels (abbr.)

21. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

22. Type of current

23. Circuit element connecting PCB layers

25. Read-only (abbr.)

26. Chemical symbol for nickel

28. Chemical symbol for bromine

29. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

31. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

32. Singulated piece of IC wafer

36. Chemical symbol for nickel

37. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

38. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

39. With 33 Across, this website's title

41. Army-Navy specification prefix

42. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

43. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

45. Stock symbol for Boeing

46. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

48. Refers to the IEEE802.11 networks (abbr.)

49. An abbreviation for "receiver"

51. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

54. Last stage in transmitter (abbr., pl.)

56. Chemical symbol for tantalum

58. Unit of length (abbr.)

59. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

60. Upper frequency (abbr.)

See solution below

2015 Crosswords Archive

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2015 Planetary Exploration Crossword PuzzleJuly 19, 2015

2015 Planetary Exploration Crossword Puzzle
July 19, 2015