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Article #7632Re: Question about getting to orbit
From: Jeffrey W Percival
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 00:04
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 00:04
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In article <463@rtech.UUCP> wong@rtech.UUCP (J. Wong) writes: >In article <330@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes: >>The American ASAT is never anywhere close to being in orbit. >It does have an `orbit'; it's just that the orbit happens to intersect >the Earth at perigee. (<-:) Not quite right, eh? The intersection with the surface of the earth prevents the achievement of perigee. (:-) -- Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!sal70!jwp or ...!uwmacc!jwp
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Question about getting to orbit Message-ID: <362@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 20:04:33 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.362 Posted: Thu Oct 16 20:04:33 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 23:33:58 EDT References: <7692@tekecs.UUCP> <15800024@uiucdcsp> <330@petrus.UUCP> <463@rtech.UUCP> Reply-To: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 10 Summary: nitpicking...