From: "Paul Henney > The debris from the Delta that reentered over Texas was featured on an > excellent programme on UK TV's Channel 4 about a year ago on the problem of > space jumk..I still have it on video. > > The fragments were quite large and as I recall the chap from Boeing was most > surprised that any of it made it to the ground. I understand from the > programme that Boeing are keen to obtain debris for analysis...could be a > cottage industry in some places :-) I was thinking that predicting reentries, searching for and finding debris might make an excellent project for youth groups, and perhaps motivate interest in satellite observation/tracking -- but then realized that there might be some risk involved. What is the likelihood dangerous things such as hydrazine or other toxic/explosive/ radioactive/icky materials would be found in these objects? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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