On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Andrew Warren wrote:

>Peter L. Peres <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Afaik there is an organization in the USA whose sole mission is to
>> keep track of space debris. Kind of like weather bulletins for
>> launches ;-). They also have an impressive list (thousands of
>> items) and do not keep track of smaller items (each of which would
>> be plenty enough to make a hole in most manned orbiting spaceraft
>> afaik).
>
>    Yeah, you don't need a lot of mass to disable a spacecraft if
>    you can get the impact velocity up to 20,000-30,000 miles per
>    hour.
>
>    For some info on the problem and a new solution, see:
>
>        http://www.nasatech.com/TSP2/rf.php?getfile=MSC22989
>
>    You'll have to register (no charge), and I think you might need
>    to be a US citizen to get the report for free.

Thanks, but I am not a US citizen. I'll pass that one.

Peter

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