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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 01:43:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #191

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 191

Today's Topics:
		      Re: Strange flash of light
			       Re: EMP
		      orbital parameters wanted
		Re: For All Mankind - Great Movie!!!!!
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Date: 26 Mar 90 16:01:38 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!udc!rnoe@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Roger Noe)
Subject: Re: Strange flash of light

In article <Added.Ma1Xl4e00Ui3M6fk8n@andrew.cmu.edu>, wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
> I heard another followup news report Sunday that stated that there still was
> no official explanation for the flash. I have not seen any newspaper or
> other written reports of this incident.

It's called aurora borealis.  I was with a group of people on the evening
in question and everyone saw it and acknowledged that it was an aurora.
When we watched the news at 10:00, our local station (forgot which one)
mentioned it.  It's certainly uncommon to see an aurora this far south (my
latitude is in my signature), but definitely not unprecedented.
-- 
Roger Noe               Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana Design Center
Phone:  217 384-8536        1101 East University Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Internet:  rnoe@urbana.mcd.mot.com                 UUCPnet:  uiucuxc!udc!rnoe
Latitude/Longitude:  40:06:55 N./88:11:40 W.

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Date: 27 Mar 90 07:24:39 GMT
From: well!nagle@apple.com  (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: EMP


      Boeing at one time had an EMP generator mounted in a truck.
This was used to test various items for EMP hardness.  It turns out
to be a spotty phenomenon; some things get affected, and some things
don't.  Reinforcing mesh in concrete was sometimes enough of a
shield to protect equipment.  It's not like you can blow every IC
in sight this way.

					John Nagle

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Date: 27 Mar 90 19:11:14 GMT
From: sdcc6!sdcc12!xm50@ucsd.edu  (don bowmen)
Subject: orbital parameters wanted


	Could someone email me the latest orbital parameter posting?
I would also like to get the phone number of the BBS that has this
information.  

	Thank you in advance
	Don Bowen

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Date: 27 Mar 90 20:41:09 GMT
From: vtserf!jarrell@uunet.uu.net  (Ron Jarrell)
Subject: Re: For All Mankind - Great Movie!!!!!

In article <18710001@hpfinote.HP.COM> ddj@hpfinote.HP.COM (Doug Josephson) writes:
>
>[...];a shot (from
>a camera in the interstage ring I think) which shows the second stage light up,
>and then pivots around as it falls away to show the earth; [...]

Actually, The shot of the first stage dropping, and the interstage
ring dropping are from the cameras mounted on the bottom of the
second stage; which are dumped later for recover.  The "second stage"
you see igniting is not a shot you can get from there; they mixed in
shots of the third stage igniting from the camera mounted in the
second-third interstage; the combination is neat, but misleading.

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