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Date: 24 Jul 2007 04:47:01
From: MiKe T
Subject: what is this ?
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv






 
Date: 23 Jul 2007 23:11:34
From: Shawn
Subject: Re: what is this ?
MiKe T wrote:
> http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv

Does anyone know if this is a real time movie, or time-lapse? The
object appears to be large and right at the ISS, but it could be a small
object, much closer.
But no, I don't know *what* it is :-)


Shawn


  
Date: 24 Jul 2007 14:48:49
From: Andrew Smallshaw
Subject: Re: what is this ?
On 2007-07-24, Shawn <s.currynospam@bresnan.net > wrote:
> MiKe T wrote:
>> http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv
>
> Does anyone know if this is a real time movie, or time-lapse? The
> object appears to be large and right at the ISS, but it could be a small
> object, much closer.
> But no, I don't know *what* it is :-)

It's a fridge:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/space_fridge_dump_shocker/

--
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org


   
Date: 24 Jul 2007 18:19:47
From: MiKe T
Subject: Re: what is this ?
awwwww...WRONG. The picture was taken by Atlantis weeks ago!!


>>> http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is a real time movie, or time-lapse? The
>> object appears to be large and right at the ISS, but it could be a small
>> object, much closer.
>> But no, I don't know *what* it is :-)
>
> It's a fridge:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/space_fridge_dump_shocker/
>
> --
> Andrew Smallshaw
> andrews@sdf.lonestar.org




    
Date: 28 Jul 2007 18:43:06
From: Andrew Smallshaw
Subject: Re: what is this ?
On 2007-07-24, MiKe T <MT@nospamer.com > wrote:
>>>> http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is a real time movie, or time-lapse? The
>>> object appears to be large and right at the ISS, but it could be a small
>>> object, much closer.
>>> But no, I don't know *what* it is :-)
>>
>> It's a fridge:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/space_fridge_dump_shocker/
>
> awwwww...WRONG. The picture was taken by Atlantis weeks ago!!

Yes, I forgot to put a smiley in there, and when I noticed soon
after and tried to supercede the article in question it wasn't
showing up on my news server to be able to do that. Seriously
though, if the ISS is routinely dumping waste it could be pretty
much anything that they've chucked out of the window. I would have
thought there'd be little chance of damage to the ISS since any
waste will be travelling at a similar speed to it before its orbit
decays, but that doesn't protect anything else in orbit.

--
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org


 
Date: 24 Jul 2007 04:56:57
From: Mark F.
Subject: Re: what is this ?
More Junk in space..



"MiKe T" <MT@nospamer.com > wrote in message
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> http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/18jul07/station_worm.wmv
>