Template:Did you know nominations/LAGEOS


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:29, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Laser Geodynamics Satellite

 * ... that forty years ago NASA launched a giant golf ball covered with hundreds of cat's eyes (LAGEOS (pictured)), which doubles as a time capsule (designed by Carl Sagan) to be opened in 8.4 million years time?



Moved to mainspace by Fgnievinski (talk). Self-nominated at 16:09, 18 June 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg When was this moved to mainspace? Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Article has existed in mainspace since 2004 so it isn't new, and recent edits by Fgnievinski have effectively left the length unchanged, so it doesn't qualify as a 5x expansion. Unfortunately, the only way this article will be able to qualify for DYK is if it is expanded fivefold in a week's time, or improved to the point that it qualifies as a Good Article and is listed after a GA review. As a 14000+ prose character expansion seems unlikely (the article is around 3529 characters now), and preparing the article to be a GA and getting a review will take weeks if not months, I'm marking the nomination for closure at this time. Fgnievinski, I hope you'll submit again to DYK at some point in the future; I'm sorry this time didn't work out. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:44, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I misunderstood the nomination requirements. I withdraw the nomination.  Sorry about the confusion.  Too bad we missed the "On this day" window. fgnievinski (talk) 13:59, 27 June 2016 (UTC)