Hello Robert. Very fascinating thread. The only "large" boosters other the Saturn (and I know that thishas been touched on) would be Centaur and Agena. I dont think that the Surveyor/Lunar orbiter/Ranger Agena/Centaurs impacted the Moon. There would also be Centaurs/Agena's from the Mariner series. I am pretty sure you have nailed it that its an SIVB (I think that the Agena and Centaur would be to small) but.... Robert >From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com> >To: "'jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu'" <jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, >seesat-l@satobs.org >Subject: RE: More on 2000 SG344 vs. J002E3 >Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:35:11 -0700 > >Jonathan wrote: > >"In the 1970-1972 frame, both Zond and Luna probes used the >11S824 Blok D upper stage which is 5.5 meters long and 3.7m diameter, >compared to an S-IVB which is 18.7m long and 6.6m dia." > >In other words, the boosters of these Russian probes are too >small to be a photometric match to the 2000 SG344 brightness. >Indeed, they are smaller than the Apollo SLA panels (when the >latter are oriented for maximum projected area) which themselves >are too small to match SG344. > >I don't believe there are any other manmade candidates that: > >1. were launched in 1971 or earlier >2. have a projected area greater than 80 square meters >3. did not impact the moon or re-enter earth's atmosphere >4. are expected to be in heliocentric orbit or could have > been perturbed into heliocentric orbit in 1971 > >Cheers, >Rob > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 Robert Oler WB5MZO Houston TX _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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