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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Sep 14, 2017, 09:20 AM Sep 2017

At last, people whose birth really was influenced by the movement of the planets

After joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1977, Dr Spilker worked on the Voyager missions to the outer Solar System.

She describes herself as a “Voyager mom”.

“My two children were born, very strategically, in a window on Voyager between the Saturn and Uranus flybys, because there were five years between them.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/cassini_huygens_saturn
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At last, people whose birth really was influenced by the movement of the planets (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2017 OP
What are her kids' names? PJMcK Sep 2017 #1
Ahaha now that's funny. trotsky Sep 2017 #2

PJMcK

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1. What are her kids' names?
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 09:39 AM
Sep 2017

Dr. Spilker doesn't mention her kids' names in the article. Here are my guesses:

1. Cassini and Huygens
2. V'ger 1 and V'ger 2
3. Rhea and Phoebe (if they're girls)
4. Pan and Pandora (if they're a boy and a girl)
5. Janus and Prometheus (if they're boys)

Also, were the kids conceived during a saturnalia? Those astrophysicists can be a wild bunch, ya know.

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