Subject:  Iridium Showers (Celine)..
Date:     Mon, 15 Nov 1999 084117 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......Celine, it is not the satellites you can see that you should
be worried about -- it is 99.5% which you CANNOT see......!!!!

Cheerio......  (Thanks for your message......)

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:17:30 -0500
From: CG 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Iridium Showers

Dear Roy,

 

This article by Simson Garfinkel was from the magazine "Wired"- the
October 1999 issue-page 278. This information made me quite
uncomfortable.


Iridium Showers "Though prices remain
stratospheric, there's one thing about Iridium's multi billion-dollar
satellite phone system everyone can enjoy. With a free astronomy Web site
as your guide, you can sit on your front lawn and watch spectacular
flashes caused by sunlight glinting off the satellites' communications
antennas. The so-called Iridium flares typically have a brightness
between magnitude -1 and -8, making them among the brightest objects in
the night sky. just face the right general direction at the right time
and you can't miss them. Knowing when and where to look normally requires
intricate calculations and an almanac of satellite positions. But thanks
to German Space operations Center Web site, you can simply type in your
town and read a list of the week's flares, customized to your backyard." 
German Space Operations--

Center Satellite Predictions: www2.gsoc.dlr.de/satvis.


Celine



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