Re: [amsat-bb] Yoshihide Kozai

Bob N4HY wrote:

This same mechanism describes the death of which amateur spacecraft?

That would be AO-13. The curious can see James Miller's article at:

http://www.amsat.org/articles/g3ruh/114.html

Very sad to hear of Kozai's death. It is certainly a familiar name to students of orbital dynamics.

de KM1P Joe