Rob Matson wrote: >I've done a quick and dirty analysis of the upcoming >EUVE decay to assess probabilities for the reentry >impacting particular locations. Rob, could you elaborate somewhat? I'm interested enough in this that a while back I wrote up a little Web page with some speculations: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/oddsofseeingareentry.htm Two of the obvious factors are 50% daylight and 70% ocean (and nn% of land uninhabited), and there's the Earth's equatorial bulge (and maybe its oblateness), and of course the percentage of cloud cover (which I don't know). What is the percentage of the Earth's surface within the tropics (+/- 23.5 degrees)? I don't know how to do that math. So I would like to learn more of the technicalities on this topic. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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