Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/20

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Subject: [Leica] Space Camera...
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:27:30 -0500
References: <090401cf2d81$a95f9b40$fc1ed1c0$@verizon.net> <CABmfTOXF+dnWj--oLYUP86BW6h2VPTxitWH97OPU1Y9t3rqqwA@mail.gmail.com> <F909E944-92CF-472D-B2DF-E0AF08543E1E@sfr.fr> <B45EB1DF-20AB-453C-ACFA-2BE1E7448511@teleport.com>

The SWC was one of the orbiting objects (satellites, rocket bodies, gloves, 
cameras, wrenches, debris) that I and my colleagues in the USAF Spacetrack 
System used to keep track of with our big radars. This was 40+ years ago, 
and as an object with a large surface area/mass ratio, it could not remain 
in low Earth orbit very long and, sadly, burned up on re-entry many years 
ago. Every breath you take probably contains a few molecules of CO2 and 
other various oxides from the event.

?howard

On Feb 20, 2014, at 12:26 AM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote:

> Three? There are 14 plus a SWC in orbit 
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:07 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
> 
>> The Chinese rabbit is already there trying to copy them ;-)
>> Ask Nathan ;-)
>> Ph
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 19 f?vr. 14 ? 22:01, Marty Deveney a ?crit :
>> 
>>> There are still three on the moon you can have for free (if you can get
>>> there to claim them!).
>>> 
>>> Marty



In reply to: Message from red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Space Camera...)
Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Space Camera...)
Message from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] Space Camera...)
Message from mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist) ([Leica] Space Camera...)