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Date: Sat,  7 Apr 90 02:15:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #231

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 231

Today's Topics:
			Pegasus Specifications
		     Re: Pegasus, what happened ?
			Re: orbit definitions
   Re: "Brilliant Pebbles" vs. "Smart Rocks" (was Re: Railgun ...)
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Date: 6 Apr 90 09:57:35 GMT
From: unmvax!uokmax!tom@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Tom Egelston)
Subject: Pegasus Specifications


     Well, with all the talk about the successful launch of Pegasus, I've
become a little bit curious.  Does anyone have the specifications for it,
particularly the dimensions, payload capabilities, and perhaps even an
approximate cost per pound to orbit?  Thanks in advance!

-- 
          Tom Egelston      Internet: tom@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
 All opinions expressed are mine. Universities aren't allowed to have opinions.
    "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
                                                                     -- Dr. Who

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Date: 6 Apr 90 12:28:47 GMT
From: parkins@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu  (David Parkins)
Subject: Re: Pegasus, what happened ?


What happened to Pegasus? I feel like I'm living in a vacume (sp).
Also does anyone know of a brokerage house and a broker dealing in the 
initial offering of OSC stock.


dave parkins
parkins@patella.tn.cornell.edu

Do you really think that Cornell would allow me to speak on its behalf?

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Date: 7 Apr 90 03:11:06 GMT
From: uhccux!tholen@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (David Tholen)
Subject: Re: orbit definitions

In article <90096.162050MRW104@psuvm.psu.edu>, MRW104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>A geostationary orbit is a geosynchronous orbit with an inclination and eccen-
>tricity of zero. A satellite in this kind of orbit always appears in the same
>spot in the sky (somewhere on the ecliptic).

Somewhere on the celestial equator, actually, because we're talking about
orbits around the Earth.  But even that isn't quite true, thanks to parallax.
Somebody viewing from the northern hemisphere will see a geosynchronous
satellite south of the celestial equator.  How much depends on your latitude.
Let's see, the north pole is 4000 miles from the equator along the Earth's
axis, and geosynchronous orbits are 24000 miles high, so parallax would be
a maximum of about 1/6 of a radian, or almost 10 degrees.  So somewhere
within 10 degrees of the equator is the most general way to refer to the
position of such a satellite, as seen from an arbitrary point on Earth.

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Date: 7 Apr 90 03:23:53 GMT
From: bfmny0!tneff@uunet.uu.net  (Tom Neff)
Subject: Re: "Brilliant Pebbles" vs. "Smart Rocks" (was Re: Railgun ...)

Let's go the other way:

	Bumbling Boulders
	Mediocre Menhirs
	Oafish Outcroppings
	Muleheaded Mountains
	Stupid Subcontinents
	Pinheaded Planetesimals
	Addled Asteroids
	Prattling Planets
	Stupid Stellar-mass Singularities
	Cretinous Collapsars
	Numbskulled Neutron-stars
	Quaaluded Quasars
	Unteachable Universes
	Brainless Big Bangs
	Catatonic Cosmoses

etc etc.
-- 
Annex Canada now!  We need the room,    \)      Tom Neff
    and who's going to stop us.         (\      tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET

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