Re: COSPAR
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:58:37 +0000
In message <332F4743.49FD@coffs.net.au>, vince gardiner
<vgardi@coffs.net.au> writes
>bdort@freeway.net wrote:
>> If you haven't found out yet, COSPAR is an acronym for
>> "Committee on Space Research". Their web site is at:
>> http://cospar.itodys.jussieu.fr:80/default.htm
>>
>> There is a link called "About COSPAR". It's address is:
>> http://cospar.itodys.jussieu.fr:80/About/about.htm
>>
>> Here is a little paragraph from that page:
>>
>> "COSPAR is an interdisciplinary scientific organization
>> concerned with international progress in all areas of
>> scientific research carried out with space vehicles,
>> rockets, and balloons."
>>
>I've seen reference to satellite COSPAR numbers
>
>> Maybe someone who lists "COSPAR Site #" in their signature
>> could help us further.
>>
>That would be appreciated
Point taken :-) Sorry - made a note to answer this if no-one else did,
but been preoccupied with some unusually interesting decays in the past
few days.
The COSPAR site number identifies the location from which I do my
observing. Including this number when reporting an observation allows
someone analysing a set of observations made from different locations to
index a table of site coordinates, rather than include the
lat/long/height of the observer against each observation. No, I don't
have a copy of the table.
There are several references to COSPAR in Desmond King-Hele's excellent
book "A Tapestry of Orbits".
Alan
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