(meteorobs) Expect some debris over the next few years...
Richard Kramer
kramer at sria.com
Thu Feb 12 11:01:23 EST 2009
At 07:08 PM 2/11/2009, Marco Langbroek wrote:
>As this happened at 788 km (490 mile) altitude, the debris will
>remain in orbit
>for a very long time. No decays to be expected from this collision therefore.
>
>The collision was between Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 and happened at
>16:56 UTC
>(11 Feb), near 98.156 E, 72.462 N, 788.58 km altitude.
Out of curiosity, I was trying to find information of the relative
velocity of the collision but had no success. Did anyone happen to
stumble on that info?
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