Ed Cannon wrote: > I don't remember hearing that Deltas do depletion burns and wonder > if it would be even remotely possible to see one. Hi Ed, Yes they do and they are very spectacular naked eye events. It's the second stage that perform this maneuver, usually a few seconds after the final burn, the evasive one. I've observed two of them, including one that happened nearly overhead. See the drawings I made of the two events : February 8, 2000 : http://www.obsat.com/images/depburn2.jpg August 17, 1999 : http://www.obsat.com/images/dep_burn.jpg Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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