A much more accurate description of Aeroassist maneuvers is located at Marshall Space Flight Center's In-space propulsion website. [1]
MCO did not fail because of "an error in the execution of the aerobraking maneuver", it failed because a unit conversion. The trajectory error caused the spacecraft to enter the atmosphere at lower than designed limits and was destroyed because of this.
Merge to aerobraking
editI have been bold and performed the merge to aerobrake. Kcordina 09:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)