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