[meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA

[Greg Catterton]

no "hip shot" was intended. I was basing my opinions on reports I have read concerning this and as I have said before, I am not as experienced at these things as some of you are and the reports I read made it out to be a major health risk to people if it was a land impact. 
that said, I figured the health risk to marine life would have been the same.
I am not out to blast NASA or the atronaut, I just did not understand why they could not have simply returned it in a shuttle that was returning to earth. 



--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net> wrote:

> From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA
> To: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 2:35 PM
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thank you for replying in a short and easy way to describe
> the objects size 
> being trackable. I won't begin to pretend to know about
> these things. The 
> initial comment seemed like as hip-shot and I didn't
> think NASA or the 
> astronaut deserved it.
> 
> Best regards,
> Greg
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Peterson"
> <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>
> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life -
> shame on NASA
> 
> 
> > Hi Greg-
> >
> > This thing was, in fact, deliberately discarded with
> the knowledge that it 
> > would reenter. It posed no risk to anything else
> because it was large 
> > enough to track, in a known orbit, and was sure to
> have a short lifetime 
> > in space. It had no potential to produce any
> additional debris.
> >
> > This isn't the first thing they scuttled from the
> ISS.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > *****************************************
> > Chris L Peterson
> > Cloudbait Observatory
> > http://www.cloudbait.com
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>
> > To: <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life
> - shame on NASA
> >
> >
> >> Hello Greg,
> >>
> >> Where do you read that an astronaut, "..threw
> it (ammonia tank) overboard 
> >> (from the International Space Station) during a
> space walk in July 
> >> 2007."? I find it highly unlikely that
> material would be purposely tossed 
> >> into space to potentially be a floating target for
> future spacecraft 
> >> and/or satellites to hit. I do not think NASA has
> the same mindset that 
> >> some cruise ship operators have by throwing their
> bags of trash into the 
> >> ocean.
> >>
> >> My thoughts!
> >> Greg
> >
> > 
> 
> 
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