Sunday, March 04, 2007

More Fengyun 1C Debris Cataloged - 960 Pieces Now

From George Olshevsky on the SEESAT list:

"We're now up to 960 objects (957 fragments) for this launch, with30691 1999-025AQZ. That's exactly 40 times around the 24-letteralphabet. What with the rocket body that blew up last month overAustralia (pieces still uncatalogued), we should hit 32000 this year,the Year of the Fragments."