Re: 1957-001D

From: George Olshevsky (george.olshevsky@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 03 2010 - 15:34:57 UTC

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    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.
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