Ian Woollard wrote: > > It's about 100 meters across. > > It >just< misses the earth EVERY 6 months(!) (Well, by 0.02 AU or so; > no chance > of collision).
Not as off topic as all that -- looks to me like a very high likelihood that it's a discarded booster stage (which, due to high reflectivity, would be much smaller than an estimate based on assumption that it's darker than the Moon). > Check out the applet: > http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+AA29 > > Anyone care to guess what a return delta-v would be? It looks to me to be > miniscule, 100m/s? Certainly under 1km/s I would think. > > Forget Spain, that's where I want to go on my summer holiday, sunlight > 24x7x365.25 > ;-) It'd be interesting to recover such a stage, if only for museum value; but also, it would be a fine test of long term exposure effects outside the LEO environment. -- Love wealth above life itself, and starve in splendor. -- Elvish proverb Donald Qualls, aka The Silent Observer NAR # 70141-SR Insured Rocket Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/launches.htm Telescope Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/astronomy.htm Lathe Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/HomebuiltLathe.htm Opinions expressed are my own -- take them for what they're worth and don't expect them to be perfect. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
