(meteorobs) The best Meteor detector on Earth

Jay Salsburg jsalsburg at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 16 02:54:00 EDT 2012


Hello

My name is Jay Salsburg. I have been monitoring the NAVASPASUR SPACE RADAR
transmitter in Kickapoo Texas for many years. I am beginning to wonder why;
Why am I doing this? I get no benefits other than the unique direct
experience of hearing and seeing Doppler events caused by Objects moving in
Low Earth Orbit over North Texas, Southern Oklahoma, and Eastern New Mexico.

The point is that the US Government operates the best Meteor Detection
Network on the Planet but does not share the Data. 

I CALL FOR ACTION: for the US Government to share the live DATA Stream and
any Archives of DATA of the NAVSPASUR Receiver array, in the name of
Science. 

I imagine the best approach is to Draft a Proposal authored by the Meteor
Observation Community to be presented to Congress. Expecting opposition from
certain unfriendly US Government elements in the name of "National
Security," those who may oppose are actually not in charge of this
Instrumentality and its DATA. Protected by Congressional Acts, Congress is
in charge of this system and National Security is not the issue, Money is
the issue as it is always the issue.

Please provide comments, ideas, and suggestions.

Jay



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