[ngcles]

Hi Glen & All,

Originally Posted by glenc

Which crash created the most debris?
"A leading space scientist has calculated that Tuesday's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and the defunct Soviet-era Cosmos 2251 spacecraft expended a great deal more destructive energy than China's infamous anti-satellite missile test did in January 2007."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...asat-test.html

The Chinese are concerned that the "massive debris of the satellite collision might pose grave but controllable danger to other spacecraft" and that it "poses a threat to China's solar synchronous satellites on the orbit" ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10809710.htm

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10806839.htm

Could be construed as a tad hypocritical, perhaps ...


Best,

Les D