re: Cerise elements

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Mike McCants writes: 
> re: Cerise elements 
 
> Of course the crazy drag term was crazy. 
 
> I think the crazy mean motion on the next elset was "caused" 
> by that crazy drag term.  There was also a crazy shift in the 
> location of the argument of perigee. 
 
> But there does not seem to be any real change in the elements. 
> The final elements "agree" with the initial ones. 
 
> So my conclusion is that there is no evidence of a collision in 
> this data. 
 
Has anyone identified the piece of debris (COSPAR ID or US SPACECOM 
catalog number) which impacted?  And looked at its elsets? 
 
 
> From: thomsona@netcom.com (Allen Thomson) 
> Subject: Cerise-debris collision 
 
> PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
> Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. 
> Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom 
> http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/EE/CSER/UOSAT 
 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
 
> SPACE DEBRIS COLLIDES WITH CERISE MICROSATELLITE IN LOW EARTH ORBIT AT 
> 31,000 MILES PER HOUR? 
 
I always thought "microsatellite" referred to a segment of the aerospace 
industry.  But recently there has been an explosion of literature about 
microsatellites coming from genetics.  As I understand it the term 
microsatellite has been commandeered to refer to a very small fragment of 
DNA.  If someone knows how I can use the Net to educate myself about 
genetic concepts like microsatellites and palindromes, I would appreciate 
it very much. 
 

Cheers.

Walter Nissen                   dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu

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