[amsat-bb] Yoshihide Kozai

Joe Fitzgerald jfitzgerald at alum.wpi.edu
Wed Feb 28 23:14:05 UTC 2018


Bob N4HY wrote:

> We were all ignorant so I am happy to share
>blame with anyone who wants to step up.


Don't be too hard on yourself, Bob.  This orbital lifetime estimation
stuff is difficult.   Some researchers think our friend Elon Musk may have
overestimated the lifetime of his Roadster by several orders of magnitude:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04718

de KM1P Joe



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