Yikes! Any details as to which particular satellites were involved? Or, just to stay on-topic, observations? http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/ Two satellites collide in orbit BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: February 11, 2009; Updated @ 5 p.m. with statement from Iridium In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a presumably defunct Russian Cosmos satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today. [etc.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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