On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:36:35 +0100, you (Tristan Cools <tristan.cools@skynet.be>) wrote: >Below you will find a story about the first possibile satellite observation >of an American ever of Sputnik 1. I have a strong feeling that Dexter >Stegemeyer in reality had witnessed Sputnik 1's rocket. Yes, that's probably the case. Sputnik 1 itself quite likely was too faint to be (easily) seen naked-eye. My parents, knowing that I observe satellites, sometimes tell about the Sputnik shock and how everyone went out at night to watch it pass over (the pass times were given in pretty much every newspaper back then, not surprisingly). I've long given up trying to explain to them that they probably didn't see Sputnik, but its upper-stage rocket. But they also tell about how they saw "Laika", that is, Sputnik 2 passes. What about that? Sputnik 2 certainly was larger than its predecessor. Could it have been observed? CU! Markus ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 06 2002 - 08:35:56 EST