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From: jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
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Subject: Re: Info wanted on Atlantis "secret" mi
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Date: 15 Dec 88 21:01:24 GMT
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In article <22000011@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
}Say again?  Any satellite orbit, over the long run, spends half its
}time with its ground track in the night hemisphere.

False.

Visualize an orbit over the terminator...


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