At 18:54 1/10/01 +0200, you wrote: >May be they register A for the first object they detect and identify, B >for the second, etc... Not really, that would mean that many rocket bodies and debris would get an A designation and that isn't the case. Most payloads get the first designations. However, the first satellite beeing catalogued was not Sputnik 1 but its rocket ! rocket=1957-alpha1(now 1957-1A) Sputnik 2= 1957-alpha2(now 1957-1B) So strictly spoken, the first satellite was its rocket and not the payload(chicken and egg question here) Greetings, Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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