Bram Dorreman wrote > Björn Gimle wrote: >> Three recently catalogued old objects, 28675-676 and 685, have >> RadarCrossSections above 1 m2! > As we see in Dutch (translated of course): "You never know how a cow catch > a hare". Hmm. I'll have to meditate on that one. Perhaps it's a koan. > Sometimes small objects are unexpectedly bright. May be this is true for > those. Yes, see http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/imint/at_951011.htm which reports an optically bright, radar-tiny object, and it's not out of the question that the opposite could be true also(*). Certainly the three objects Björn points out should be checked by visual observers to establish their brightness, or at least an upper bound on it. (*) Thinking about it, that sentence might contain the beginnings of another koan... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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