Mark,and listee's,Thanks for your response to my question!..very helpful!..I thought 1 "flare" was exciting!..but 3 in a row!..Interesting!Anyways thanks for the input!.... I was thinking the term "Iridium Flare" was used because they plated the Sat's with "Iridium"....hmmm
Best Regards.
Kevin W.L.Decker
From: Mark Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jerry Flaherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], kevin decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 'Iridium Flares'
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:19:49 +0100
>Jerry,
>
>Iridium was originally envisaged as an array of 77 communication
>satellites - 77 being the atomic number of Iridium. Think of earth
>as the nucleus, the satellites as the electrons, in the standard
>high school model of the atom.
>
>In fact it's actually around 66 satellites, but "Terbium" doesn't
>have quite the same cachet. More at the Wiki here:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_%28satellite%29
>
>Marko
>
>Jerry Flaherty wrote:
>
>>Larry, Kevin and List, why are these reflections called "iridium
>>flares"? Is the surface reflecting the sunlight an iridium alloy?
>>Jerry Flaherty
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>>Cc: <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:50 AM
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>>
>
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