On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:02 AM, George Olshevsky <george.olshevsky@gmail.com> wrote: > Been away from the List for quite a while, lots of catching up to do > in the next few weeks. I recently picked up a copy on eBay of A Chronology of Missile and Aeronautic Events, House Report 87. As I recall, this is the first of a more or less annual series of reports produced for a while by the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the US House of Representatives. (Got into a bidding war and it wound up costing me a pretty penny.) I may have some later ones boxed up somewhere in my garage. I looked up Sputnik 1 and it lists three objects for the launch: the rocket, the payload, and the nose cone. No orbital elements for the nose cone. Significantly for me, it provides a November 25, 1957 decay date for the nose cone, which I did not know before. It also provides a December 1, 1857 re-entry date for the rocket (which matches what I had in my table) and a January 4, 1958 re-entry date for Sputnik 1 itself. In my table, I have the re-entry date spread out over January 7-10, 1958, as per the aforementioned Sky & Telescope news note, for the eight fragments into which the payload broke up. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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