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| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 01:30 am This may be off topic but the hubble is one of the many satellites out there. There is ring of satellites that revolve our planet. Is there a name for this ring of man-made objects. | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 01:34 am No | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 02:01 am I'll second that -- this is just one more thing with no name. But it's not exactly a ring, it's more of a cloud. Some orbits are more popular than others, but generally speaking there are satellites all over the place. | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 04:54 am Go to a web page from our friends at Marshall: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html It allows download of an applet that wonderfully shows the cloud of 'electrons' that orbit this 'nucleus' we call earth. http://www.edcheung.com/job/sm3b/sm3b.htm | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 05:36 am That is very cool. I've never seen that before. | |
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