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Space Debris


Hello Jeff and all - 

--- grantham@us.ibm.com wrote:
 
> Have there been other reported falls of "junk from
> space"  Where can we collect
> pieces of that?
> Cheers,
> Jeffrey Grantham

Yes.  During the cold war these pieces of debris were
one of the few ways the US had of gaining knowledge
about Soviet spacecraft, and there was an organized
recovery effort.  If you go to 

         http://www.blackvault.com 
(or is it 
         http://www.darkvault.com      ?)

you can read declassifed correspondence from the 
MOON DUST program.  Generally, the pieces are still
held in secure collections and are unavailable to the
public.  For that matter their exact whereabouts are
still not publicly known, and this is unlikely to
change.

Also, some years back Jim Oberg researched a fall of
Soviet hardware in Pennsylvania and this recovery was
reported in "documentary" fashion on a television
show, the name of which escapes me now.

I do not know whether any pieces of other satellites
have been collected.  Maybe the Russians will put
their collection of US satellite remains up for sale.
:)

EP






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