Christian Kjærnet wrote: > Given that all the debris pieces now travel in the same direction as the > target and in about the same orbital plane, one can conclude that the ASAT > weapon did strike from behind, with approximately a coplanar trajectory In that case Xichang cannot have been the launch site of the interceptor. The missile then would have had to make a complete U-turn. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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