Re: Weather and other balloons: USA

From: Jonathan T Wojack (tlj18@juno.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 12:32:06 PDT

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    > I think/hope that this is on-topic due as it can relate to spurious 
    > visual satellite sightings.
    > 
    > According to the following NOAA Web site, USA weather balloons two 
    > meters in diameter are launched twice per day every day, usually at 
    > 00:00 and 12:00 UTC:
    > 
    >  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/gyx/weather_balloons.htm
    
    It also says that ~ 75,000 launches take place each year in the U.S.
    
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    Jonathan T. Wojack                 tlj18@juno.com
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