RE: notation in <http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/ESB/perseus.html>

Jeff Hunt (jeff@satellite.eu.org)
Wed, 21 Jan 98 16:38:59

--- On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:21:24 PST  Mike_Spreitzer.PARC@xerox.com 
wrote:

>What are the little numbers by the cities?  My first guess was the time 
(only
>the minutes part), but that doesn't work in the examples nearest to my 
location
>(Sacramento, San Francisco).

The numbers refer to the numeric sequence of the Sunglint maneuvers. 
These numbers were first shown in a handwritten drawing of the US that 
displayed the progression of the maneuvers. That drawing has since been 
updated with the nearusa.gif which shows the local times for maneuvers, 
not the sequence numbers.

Jeff Hunt <jeff@satellite.eu.org>