2001-049 MU #27512 This is an unimportant and unvisible decay. The extremely small piece of debris has a Radar Cross Section (RSC) of only 0.0015 mē and a mass of a few grams. The experience has shown that the reentry of such tiny pieces of debris is normally visual unobservable. In general SCC release decay predictions only for objects with a RCS larger then 1 mē. Some exceptions with RCS values below 1 mē are very small satellites ( e.g.Starshine 1-3) or more massive rocket stage elements (e.g. the ullage motors of the Proton DM stages). Harro Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de Berlin, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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