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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Info wanted on Atlantis "secret" mi
Message-ID: <3115@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 17 Dec 88 16:18:38 GMT
References: <684@pyuxd.UUCP> <22000011@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <2721@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
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In article <2721@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>, jwm@stdb.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) writes:
> 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...

The terminator moves.

Over the period of a year, the terminator moves 360 degrees (give or take
a little depending on which "year" we're talking about).
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net