Hi Markus, I either got that off CNN or a newspaper article sometime in the last two days-think yesterday. Since I'm an older Canadian I remember converting the number from kilos to pounds. Came out 7 or to be a bit more precise, 6.66 pounds. I'll try and find it. NASA was guesstimating its weight in any event. best, Don Markus Mehring wrote: > On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:58:55 -0400, you (Don Ledger > <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>) wrote: > > >>I believe however that NASA has set a weight of about 3 >>kilograms- or about 7 pounds-for the weight of the piece that >>flaked off the ET. > > > ? Where did you get that from? The number that I recall off-hand is > 2.6-something pounds. > > > CU! Markus > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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