Re: And I thought if Nanosail D was obseved flashing, means it's rotating

From: Ralf Vandebergh (ralf.vandebergh@home.nl)
Date: Fri May 27 2011 - 12:14:06 UTC

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    Just wanted to link to my website to show an image to support this 
    discussion, but even that is rejected.
    So It's even not possible to support a discussion by showing an image.
    
    Ralf
    
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    From: Marco Langbroek
    Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:33 AM
    To: kfetter@yahoo.com ; satelliet lijst (SeeSat)
    Subject: Re: And I thought if Nanosail D was obseved flashing,means it's 
    rotating
    
    Op 27-5-2011 11:22, Kevin Fetter schreef:
    > Hi Marco and others
    >
    > I was just responding, to the where they say, The curious variations 
    > suggest that the sail is tumbling.
    >
    > So to me, they are saying, there are not sure it's not tumbling.
    >
    > Can't observe it are anything else, as it been 2 weeks, of cloud filled 
    > skies at night.
    
    
    Ah okay, now I get what you mean. I thought you were starting a semantic
    discussion... ;-)
    
    To me, the rapid continuous flashing is indeed a sign it must be tumbling. 
    While
    occasional flaring might be due to changing solar angle and a fixed 
    reflective
    surface, rapid flashing is not likely explained that way.
    
    With a light object such as this solar sail with presumably an unusually 
    large
    surface to mass ratio, I wonder what happens if a small meteoroid (or small
    piece of space debris) hits a corner of it: could it transfer enough 
    momentum
    for the sail to start to tumble?
    
    Clouded out here too by the way.
    
    - Marco
    
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