On 8/30/2010 5:08 PM, Dale Ireland wrote:
> 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
We'll have to watch for it in 8.4 million years.
>> -----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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