In a message dated 11/3/2005 4:28:42 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, seesat@rogers.com writes: >>The other U.S. gov't report that listed a C object must have been in error. Here is how it could have happened. Someone involved in preparing the report may have referred to a list of objects sorted by catalogue number, which would have looked like this: 718 1963-055A 719 1963-055B 720 1963-054C Object 720 was the C object of an earlier U.S. launch, but someone reading quickly could have mistakenly read it as belonging to 1963-055.<< This makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, the principals who prepared the report are likely long gone now (it has been 42 years!) and we'll probably never know for sure. It might be a good idea to add a footnote to any listing for the 1963-055 launch that object 1963-055C, which appeared in some tables in 1964, does not exist (or was not a payload). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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