Re: Westbound Satellite?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

> Unless it wasn't one of ours :-) There were reports of earth-orbiting 
> meteoroids during the 1950s but I don't know of any recent ones.

AIUI there's one (Cruithne?) which is in a remarkably neat little
heliocentric orbit that appears to orbit us, and there was a brief
debate a few months ago when we captured an "asteroid" into geocentric
orbit - it has since been recaptured into a heliocentric orbit, and was
believed (after a couple of months of quite odd observations) to be a
spent Saturn IV-B stage from one of the early Apollo launches (I think
A10, but ICBW).

I don't think there's any others known. Well, except the big one :-)

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-Andrew Gray
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