Re: thousands of tiny satellites

From: Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:02:08 -0400
There are clumps of needles which stuck together, they are tracked in the
catalog.
Irwin Shapiro, who led the West Ford project, asks me about them every time
I run into him...
(he's here at the Center for Astrophysics, although theoretically
retired...)

On 29 September 2017 at 07:34, Allen Thomson via Seesat-l <
seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:

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> > Project West Ford, known now as the West Ford Needles.
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> I hadn't realized it until now, but some of the needles apparently are
> still in orbit:
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> https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/pdfs/odqnv17i4.pdf
> pp. 3-4
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