Note that Target Marker 3 wasn't ejected, it is still aboard Hayabusa. I agree with you about Centaur AC-2, I've taken a 'best guess' approach and just guessed that these small bits are also insulation pieces - they are certainly associated with the disruption and tumbling of the stage. Todays' discovery was the identification of what appear to be despin weights associated with Transit Scout launches - debris objects in pairs, one higher than the payload and one lower, like 1967-92C/92D. One document I have says that this generation of Transits didn't use yo-yo weights, but the orbital data indicates otherwise. Sorry to everyone, I think this is getting too off topic for Seesat. What's the right mailing list for discussions of cataloging arcana? :-) Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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