Re: Decay Forecast FOTON DEBRIS

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Earl Needham schrieb:
> At 09:17 PM 10/18/1999 -0500, Ed Cannon wrote:
> >Earl wrote regarding 1999-048E (#25917) FOTON 12 DEB
>  Snip...
>
>
> 	BTW -- I'm assuming I should be able to see this object whether it is
> sunlit or not, since Harro posted:
>
> >The "debris" is a massive piece - a compact spacecraft unit - with a
> >large mass/drag area. One can see it on the very slow decay.
>
> 	So -- is this thing starting to glow from heat?
>
> Hello Earl,
  
There was a missunderstanding in my message : It means  the reason for the very 
slow decay is the  large mass / drag area of the FOTON DEB. It is not 
glowing......


  Harro
  Harro.Zimmer-online.de
> Berlin, Germany
  
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