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- Subject: Orbital elements of junk in space wanted
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:23:42 GMT
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- > Yep, NORAD does keep a listing of "everything" seeing how all data
- > pathways lead to NORAD. And that guy that you call up to find out if
- > your object such-and-such is a piece of debris, a classified sat, or
- > something unknown that is not in the catalog is probably me or someone
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > in my office. We do this alot for our observation guys and they HAVE
- > found pieces that NORAD did not know about or had reported lost.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > David Fuzzy Wells (Tue, 19 Jan 93 05:16:21 GMT)
-
- Russia (ex-USSR) ?
- Other known launching nation(s) (China, Japan, France, etc...) ?
- Unknown launching nation(s) ?
- Meteorites ?
- Little natural satellites ?
- High altitude physical phenomena ?
- Very high-flying secret aircraft ?
- Other ?
- Within the computer software analysing these events, is there some
- kind of filter eliminating the objects (if any) which disappear soon
- after being detected, or which don't obey strictly the laws of
- gravitation and/or atmospheric re-entry ?
-
- J. Pharabod
-