[FPSPACE] another anniversary

[Jim Oberg]

Zwicky had a bold concept but there is no physical way that the
deployer could have sent anything to escape velocity -- it wasn't 
a Jules Verne super gun. The concept was to create artificial meteors
to calibrate natural meteor composition estimates.

 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paolo Ulivi" <paolo.ulivi at tiscali.it>
To: "FPSpace" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] another anniversary


> Tomorrow, 16 October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the 
> Aerobee pellets, the first artificial objects to exceed escape speed
> 
> http://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/aerobee.html
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