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. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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