Re: Stars help to track space junk

From: Marco Langbroek (marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 12:16:40 UTC

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    Op 1-6-2011 13:00, Kevin Fetter schreef:
    > http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Stars_help_to_track_space_junk_999.html
    
    I fail to see how this is substantially different from what for example Greg, 
    Peter, Scott and me already do with regard to geostationary objects: i.e. it 
    amounts to taking digital images and using astrometry to get positions from them 
    (with startrail measurements as the baseline astrometric reference grid).
    
    - Marco
    
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