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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html