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