On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:26:25 -0400, you (Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>) wrote: >Hi Markus, >I either got that off CNN or a newspaper article sometime in the >last two days-think yesterday. Gotta have been misreported then, I would say. I guess CNN is not the culprit, MilesO isn't known to mess up that badly on spaceflight topics. >Since I'm an older Canadian I >remember converting the number from kilos to pounds. Came out 7 >or to be a bit more precise, 6.66 pounds. Well, since I'm a younger German I'm used to thinking metric, sorry if I'm messing up when thinking in imperial figures. >NASA was guesstimating its weight in any event. That's certainly true, but they were also guesstimating based on halfway decent size estimates, and for a piece of ET insulation to weigh 6-7 pounds, it would have to be _a lot_ larger than what can be seen of the piece in the footage. CU! Markus ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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