Re: Decay Forecast FOTON DEBRIS

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Ted Molczan: "NOSS 1 , Lacrosse 2, USA 86 and USA 144 elements"
• Previous message: Alan Pickup: "Decay watch: Oct 19"
• In reply to: Harro.Zimmer: "Re: Decay Forecast FOTON DEBRIS"

At 09:10 AM 10/19/1999 +0200, Harro.Zimmer wrote:
>Earl Needham schrieb:
<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......


	Oops, sorry all.  Hope I didn't generate any confusion...

	Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB    mailto:KD5XB@AMSAT.ORG
Clovis, New Mexico	DM84jk N34d 25.446 W103d 12.700 (or so)

Pet peeve: breath is a noun,  breathe is a verb (When you take a breath,
you breathe...)

-----------------------------------------------------------------
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

• Next message: Ted Molczan: "NOSS 1 , Lacrosse 2, USA 86 and USA 144 elements"
• Previous message: Alan Pickup: "Decay watch: Oct 19"
• In reply to: Harro.Zimmer: "Re: Decay Forecast FOTON DEBRIS"