Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.columbia Subject: Re: STS-9 launch and Pravda announcement Message-ID: <151@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 10:25:21 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.151 Posted: Tue Nov 29 10:25:21 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Nov-83 04:06:43 EST References: <603@ihuxx.UUCP> <720@ulysses.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 7 > The Soviets have also announced a plan to orbit giant mirrors to illuminate > their northern cities during the Arctic winter (source: NBC News). I hate to think what this will do to optical astronomy. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton}!astrovax!wls