ykchia posted: >Is there a way to sort the debris entries into larger pieces? Although many debris pieces have been cataloged, only the first set of about 30 have RCS values in the Satellite Situation Report for February 5. The largest RCS is 0.036 square meters and there are a few near 0.027, but most are smaller. So I would assume that these pieces would normally be down at magnitude 10 or 11 or fainter. Perhaps some of the newer 500 pieces will be larger and perhaps one of the next SSRs will have larger RCS values. On the other hand, it might be reasonable to assume that many of these pieces will be irregularly shaped and spinning rapidly. If so, they might give visual flashes much brighter than their RCS might indicate. But human eyes are better at spotting such flashes than a video system (in my opinion). Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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