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To: KevinDavis

Watching NASA vid feed now for press confrence.

They can't tell how large it is.

seems to be pacing the shuttle.

I'm guessing it is debris off the shuttle.


180 posted on 09/19/2006 11:13:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: BenLurkin; All

That is not good news....


181 posted on 09/19/2006 11:14:21 AM PDT by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: BenLurkin

Are you getting audio from that feed? I'm not but I'm not sure if it's on my end or theirs.


183 posted on 09/19/2006 11:16:56 AM PDT by ableLight
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To: BenLurkin
They can't tell how large it is. seems to be pacing the shuttle. I'm guessing it is debris off the shuttle

Once the crew is up they can use the Rendezvous Radar to get a distance fix, and from that they can use pixels and other such to get an estimate of the thing's size.

191 posted on 09/19/2006 11:28:09 AM PDT by r9etb
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