Re: Bad news

From: Brian Weeden (brian.weeden@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 12:22:49 UTC

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    The latest Orbital Debris Quarterly that I linked earlier has a very
    nice summary of the whole event.  The latest tracking data from
    Haystack suggests there are as many as 150,000 pieces 1 cm or bigger,
    which is quite a bit more than the models predicted.
    
    -- 
    Brian Weeden
    Technical Consultant
    Secure World Foundation
    
    On Jan 18, 2008 1:25 AM, George Olshevsky <george.olshevsky@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > On Dec 6, 2007 8:15 AM, Edward S Light <light@argoscomp.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > (2) The number of catalogues FengYun 1C debris pieces keeps growing,
    > >    the latest being 32372 = 99-025CZR
    >
    >
    > Well, it just bumped up another few notches: We're now up to #32465
    > 1999-025DCD, the 2380th object from this launch. Something like 18%,
    > or almost one in five, of all artificial objects currently in orbit
    > are from this one launch.
    >
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