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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: JSC world map display
Message-ID: <1964@kalliope.rice.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 88 15:10:42 GMT
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In article <1886@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) said:
>The blue map shows the ground track for the next two (and a half?) orbits,
>with the orbit numbers.  What are the white half-rectangle symbols
>(they look like a bracket "[")?

To which I responded:
>They delineate the orbits.  That is, they mark where one orbit ends
>and the next orbit begins.

billc@trsvax.UUCP replied (in article <191800011@trsvax>):
>No!  This is not right.
>
>The brackets merely denote sunrise and sunset.

You are correct.  My apologies to one and all.  I was misremembering
things.  I realized that after I had posted that message.

[ Will anyone ever trust me again?  :-) ]

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>