Re: More FengYun 1C debris

From: George Olshevsky (george.olshevsky@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2007 - 19:36:18 EST

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On 2/25/07, Leo Barhorst <leo.barhorst@tele2.nl> wrote:
> Space-Track has catalogued more debris from FengYun 1C.
> The latest bunch goes from #30600 1999-25 AMF to 30650 1999-25 APH
> bringing the total number of catalogued fragments to 907.

We're now up to 960 objects (957 fragments) for this launch, with
30691 1999-025AQZ. That's exactly 40 times around the 24-letter
alphabet. What with the rocket body that blew up last month over
Australia (pieces still uncatalogued), we should hit 32000 this year,
the Year of the Fragments.

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