RE: AO-40 magnitude

From: Dale Ireland (direland@drdale.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 16:38:35 PDT

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Hi
Don't you have to consider things like albedo, illumination angle, besides
the cross sectional area. Also, shape.. flat, spherical, etc. or is there
some "rule of thumb".
Dale

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From: Jonathan T Wojack [mailto:tlj18@juno.com]

I understand where you get the 8.5 mag drop for the increased range, but
does anyone know how to compute the theoretical magnitude when the RCS is
NOT equivalent to ~ 2m^2?

BTW, what is "WSRN"?

Thanks!



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