[meteorite-list] Orbital debris watching radar

stan . laser_maniac at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 12 12:43:19 EST 2006


>Yes -- continued tracking would provide a measure of the object's
>drag coefficient.  The mass-to-area ratio would be quite high for
>rocky material compared to that of most manmade space junk.  --Rob


is there a publically acessable inventory of space junk? I can see Mike 
Farmer already getting ready to buy his plane tickets if we could figure out 
ahead of time a basket ball sized piece of the moon is about to land 
somewhere on earth. ;)





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