[Fwd: $5000 reward offered for sighting/photographing re-enteringsatellite]

From: Steve Daniels (steve@danielss.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 09:55:59 PST

  • Next message: Eberst: "FEB17.OBS"

    WSpaceport@aol.com wrote:
    > 
    > TO: All Space & Rocketry Groups
    > From: Jim Spellman - National Space Society/Western Spaceport Chapter
    > 
    > Time to shine up your telescopes, fieldglasses and cameras. . .it could be
    > worth a $5,000 reward to you.
    > 
    > Please read message received from Gil Moore, a friend and colleague of mine
    > at Utah State University who headed up the STARSHINE project.
    > 
    > Permission is given to pass this posting along to other amateur astronomers
    > or  contacts you may have outside the Kern County area.
    > 
    > ~JS~
    > ********************************************************************
    > Subj:   Re: Invitation to attend/participate in the Space
    > Strategic/Infrastructure Plan
    > Date:   02/07/2000 16:20:15 Pacific Standard Time
    > From:   <A HREF="mailto:GilMoore12">GilMoore12</A>
    > To: <A HREF="mailto:WSpaceport">WSpaceport</A>
    > 
    > Jim,
    > 
    > Thanks for inviting me to comment on your plan.  I'll try to do so, just as
    > soon as Starshine 1 breathes its last, on or about February 18, 2000.
    > 
    > I would appreciate your distributing our revised web site to your membership.
     <A HREF="http://www.azinet.com/starshine/">Click here: Project
    Starshine -
    > Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite</A>
    > 
    > We're trying to set up a worldwide death watch, so that someone, somewhere,
    > might be able to get an image of Starshine's re-entry.  It's worth $5000 to
    > the person getting the best image.
    > 
    > Gil
    > *****************************************
    > Space Science News for February 16, 2000
    > 
    > STARSHINE Returns to Cinder:  The STARSHINE satellite, designed to study
    > the influence of solar activity on our planet's atmosphere, will return to
    > Earth on February 18 or 19.  As it disintegrates in the atmosphere, the
    > descending satellite will resemble a slow-moving meteor or fireball.
    > FULL STORY at
    > 
    > http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast16feb_1.htm
    > 
    > <A HREF="http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast16feb_1.htm">STARSHINE
    >  Returns to Cinder</A>
    
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
    in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
    http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Feb 17 2000 - 09:57:40 PST