RE: [sarex] Mir to be eclipsed?

["Schayk A.H. van" <A.H.Schayk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Van:	Tom McDonald [SMTP:tom.mcdonald@xtra.co.nz]
> Verzonden:	woensdag 4 augustus 1999 6:35
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> Onderwerp:	[sarex] Mir to be eclipsed?
> 
> While looking at data for the total solar eclipse on 11 August I noticed
> that extrapolating Mir's path using Keplers for day 211 puts Mir in
> total eclipse for a few seconds at about 1014 UTC.  Mir would be over
> France between Bordeax and Paris.  Plymouth in England would just be
> coming out of total eclipse.  At Mir's height the shadow of the space
> station would coincide with the patch of totality at Earth's surface.
> 
> Does anyone know if there has been a deliberate plan for some science
> on board Mir during these few seconds of darkness?  Or have I got my
> sums wrong?
>  
> Regards
> Tom McDonald  Zl1TMC		 
> 	      Amateur Radio - Talk around the world
>      http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/branches/akl/branch10/farc.html
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	[Schayk A.H. van]  
	I'll be just south of Virton in Belgium during the eclips and i'll
take a mir prepared station with me
	so look for me as f/pe1rdw/p or on/pe1rdw/p in phone and pe1rdw-3 in
packet

	my guess is that the cosmonauts are busy preparing everything for
the unmaned period of mir

	73  de Andre PE1RDW
	http://www.pe1rdw.demon.nl

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