WSRN revisted

From: Greg Roberts (grr@iafrica.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 05:42:37 PDT

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    Afternoon
    
    I had a fair amount of favourable comment about my posting the item on the
    Western Satellite Research network recently.As a result of a request from
    Allen Thomson I have scanned the second report I have and possibly there may
    be one or two other readers interested in getting a copy as well?
    
    Details of the report are as follows:
    
    North American Rockwell Space Division report SD70-55, dated 1 July 1970.
    Subject: Optical Characteristics of Artificial Satellites
    Authors: Gary A.McCue, James G.Williams and Joan M.Morford.
    
    The main part of the document contains 39 pages. The Chapter headings are:
    
    1. Introduction
    .........................................................................Pag
    e 1
    2. Satellite Brightness Theory
    ................................................. Page 3
    3. Statistical Properties of the Observational Data ..................Page
    9
    4. Observations versus theory
    ..................................................Page 25
    5. Conclusion
    ...........................................................................P
    age 38
        References
    ...........................................................................P
    age 39
    
    Chapter 3 is the one probably of most interest to readers.
    
    I have scanned the document at 300dpi and the resultant images are just over
    a megabyte each in BMP format. On
    compression with ZIP the entire document is then just over 2 Megabytes in
    size. Due to limitations with my, and
    possibly other peoples servers, I have split the file into 4 parts , so
    should be okay for most, if not all systems.
    
    Let me know if you would like a copy e-mailed to you. I will wait for about
    a week for all replies and will then do a
    bulk posting with one upload so that I dont run up too big a telephone
    account!
    
    In addition to the observers mentioned in my earlier WSRN report, the
    following additional ones are mentioned in this
    report:
    
    Larry Howard (Van Nuys),   D.Charles (Walnut Creek),  C.Evans (China Lake),
    R.Jenkins (Rochester),
    A.Beresford ( Adelaide - anybody every heard of Tony :-)))  ) ,  K.Wells and
    R.Gliebe(San Jose),  R.Emmons (Akron-Canton),  A.Harris(Newberg),
    J.Rouse(Madison), P.Russell(Wichita),  L.Deming(Terre Haute), S.Sells
    (Prairie Village) and F.Ball(San Antonio).
    
    Finally this report contains no reports of invidual observations of
    satellites.
    
    Best wishes from a cloudy rain/wind swept Cape Town!
    Greg
    
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    Cospar Site 0443. Long 18.5129E,Lat  33.9405S
    Near Cape Town, South Africa.
    
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