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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: cryptocraft photography, Re: Aurora
- Message-ID: <32704@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:40:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.040911.15524@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu# <1992Dec19.005254.1@stsci.edu| <N4HY.92Dec21120246@wahoo.UUCP>
- Distribution: sci,na
- Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.
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- In article <N4HY.92Dec21120246@wahoo.UUCP# n4hy@wahoo.UUCP (Bob McGwier) writes:
- #
- #From NE by N down to SW by S is <NOT| retrograde. This is the descending
- #half of a normal orbit with inclination less than ninety degrees.
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- Wrong. If the object is in a low earth orbit with this motion it would
- have an orbit whose inclination is about 113 degrees. If the motion had
- been from NNE by N to SSW by S the inclination would be about 101 degrees.
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- Had the motion been from NW by N to SE by S the motion would be prograde
- at an inclination of about 68 degrees.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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