LAGEOS reentry

From: Dale Ireland (direland@drdale.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 21:08:05 UTC

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    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
    
    
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