Any speculation on what the reentry would be like or look like for an object like this? Uranium has a pretty high melting point of over 1100 C. 2ft sphere weighing over 1000lbs. Dale > -----Original Message----- > On 8/27/2010 5:01 PM, Dale Ireland wrote: > > Has anyone seen the LAGEOS 1? It is 5000km out and only 2ft across with corner reflectors. Made of depleted Uranium it weighs half a ton and will not decay for 8.4 million years. > > I saw it back in Oct. 1994. > Mag 11.0 > > -- > Jay Respler _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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