There's been much talk of FengYun 1C debris (which admittedly was deliberate) but is the number of pieces in this report accurate? "But on 19 February this year, almost a year after the failed launch, the upper stage - which still contained some of its fuel, exploded. The US Space Surveillance Network has so far picked up 1,111 pieces of debris." [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/6398513.stm -- Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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