Re:Sputnik heard!
Vuorela Arto (arto.vuorela@nls.fi)
3 Nov 97 14:39:49 +0200
Philip Chien:
>... I did not see Sputnik-40, but hadn't
>expected to because of the relatively daylight sky which limited me to
>about 3rd magnitude.
In the "Uutislehti 100" magazine on 6th October 1997 there is an
article on page 11 written by Thomas Hamberg (STT, Suomen
Tietotoimisto, http://www.stt.fi/).
The vice main designer of the Sputnik project, Oleg Ivanovski,
says 40 years afterwards, that the Sputnik-1 was so small that
it could not have been seen even on a black sky with stellar
telescope. For people who think they saw it Oleg has some
bad news: they actually only saw the glint from the last
phase of the rocket, circulating the globe without Sputnik.
Sputnik-40 has a 1/3 scale from the original.
On 2nd October 1996 I asked in SeeSat-L e.g. if all satellites
can be seen. So, I found at least this argument on that.
I also mentioned arguments of Carl Sanders.
Now I just received John S. Torell's personal report from 1994,
setting Sanders' reliability very questionable.
Best regards,
Arto Vuorela tel. +358 (0)205 41 5582
National Land Survey/Satellite Image Centre fax +358 (0)205 41 5505
PL 84, FIN-00521 Helsinki arto.vuorela@nls.fi
Finland http://www.nls.fi/sat/