I was very interested in Jeff's and Dave's comments. Was there more than one 'Chicken Little' competition? AMSAT-UK took over the competition which was originally started by UoS. The winner was Geoff G3ENY, who sadly is no longer with us.
I spent quite a lot of time attempting to predict the 'burn-up'of OSCAR-9 and Salyut7. I'll put together what information I can find, and post it here in a few days time. I would be very interested whether any one can find any references in the AMSAT Journal or elsewhere, other than in OSCAR News, which I already have.
I haven't been following ANDE, but with the tools available today, a lot of people should come pretty close...
I did it with manual recording of the various parameters b'cast by O9, and used the one that seemed the best predictor of its demise...Leanore and I both submitted entries, but we were not on the winners list!!
I feel very fortunate that I recorded and submitted the last telemetry, and was given credit for it by UoS.
I showed my "prowess" http://home.san.rr.com/doguimont/uploads
at OSCAR9XXXXX.JPG
I have all of Project Oscars pubs somewhere (my wife, KA6UCD, did the "OSCAR LETTER" with Issue #19 in Jan 91) She has copies of all the ones she published, she did it for over two years...
She inherited it from Margaret Nakayama, KB6HWV, who did issue #18. Margaret inherited it from her husband Gary Nakayama.
I have his copy #8, and it was called "Project Oscar, User's Group Newsletter"....That is dated October 1987...
And somewhere in my garage I have a copy that records all the stats on the demise of O9.....UoS may have that info somewhere also???
Maybe Jeff, wb3jfs@cox.net, can tell you the leaders...seems to me he was right up front....
Off to a garage search...gad, I hate that!!
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...