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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Question about getting to orbit
Message-ID: <362@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 20:04:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.362
Posted: Thu Oct 16 20:04:33 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 23:33:58 EDT
References: <7692@tekecs.UUCP> <15800024@uiucdcsp> <330@petrus.UUCP> <463@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: nitpicking...

In article <463@rtech.UUCP> wong@rtech.UUCP (J. Wong) writes:
>In article <330@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>>The American ASAT is never anywhere close to being in orbit.
>It does have an `orbit'; it's just that the orbit happens to intersect 
>the Earth at perigee. (<-:)

Not quite right, eh?  The intersection with the surface of the earth
prevents the achievement of perigee. (:-)
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