Must admit , I missed this paragraph when initially reading http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/ASAT032408.xml ."[The dead satellite] was not stable," Hicks says. "It was rolling and tumbling and [its gyration] wasn't always the same from one orbit to another, which added to the technical challenge. We tried for six weeks to see what was predictable about what it was doing each orbit, and we just couldn't do it.". I don't recall any visual obs which indicated it was rolling and tumbling to this extent ...... I think we got a couple of reports of flares , but that was about it. "We tried for six weeks to see what was predictable about what it was doing each orbit, and we just couldn't do it.". Hmmmm John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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