Sort of like walking 1000 paces, turning, and firing...not much danger of anyone perishing in such a duel? Better yet try to hit the other's bullet. The most amazing is that two orbiting satellites actually collided.
73, Ed - KL7UW afterall space is not like the San Diego Fwy in rush hour
At 05:08 AM 1/26/2010, Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
Hello,
Given the recent close conjunction between Compass-1 and Sich 1, I was curious how common such encounters were. Using SOCRATES on the celestrak site, http://celestrak.com/SOCRATES/, it looks like they are fairly common.
Take those forecasts with a grain of salt since they are based on TLE's with limited accuracy. On the day Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collided, SOCRATES forecast a couple other conjunctions closer. SOCRATES predicted a miss of 584 m.
Fortunately for us, there is a lot of space in space.
-Joe KM1P
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