Re: (meteorobs) re : Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) re : Satellites May Be Shattered By Invisible Meteors
• From: Malcolm Currie <mjc@ast.star.rl.acdot uk>
• Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:38:00 +0100 (BST)
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George Z wrote:
> khaled<< 
>  I agree with you completely, and I have read somewhere, ( I think it was an
> e-mail from the imo) that the 1994 persied shower had abraded a satellite
> called hercules ( as I remember ).
>   >>
> I don't know the name of the satellite, but this seems to jog a distant memory
> somewhere? I believe a shuttle launch was postponed then due to the
> possibilities of a Perseid storm?

That's correct.  Yes there was a meteoroid impact on an ESA satellite
called Olympus during the 1993 Perseids.

Malcolm

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