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Article #7883Re: satellites
From: William H. Jefferys
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1988 20:11
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1988 20:11
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In article <2619@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes: ~ ~O.K. - I've finally reached saturation. As a certifiable old-fart who was ~around during the Cuban missle crisis (1962) I can guarantee that an object ~as small as an automobile and/or truck was plainly visible by sattelite in ~'62. I'm quite confident that you could have made out the make of the car ~or truck - even in the crummy newspaper photos they were showing at the time. Actually, the photographs made public by the Kennedy administration during the Cuban missle crisis were taken by high-flying U-2 aircraft, not by satellites. They carried cameras of much smaller aperture (and correspondingly lower resolution) than the present generation of spy satellites does. Bill Jefferys -- Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? -- Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ll-xn!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.crypt Subject: Re: satellites Keywords: resolution Message-ID: <2370@utastro.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 88 20:11:36 GMT References: <873@uop.edu> <2166@umd5.umd.edu> <4910@well.UUCP> <1952@netsys.UUCP> <1988Jan12.180815.685@sq.uucp> <2619@calmasd.GE.COM> Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory Lines: 20