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Old December 2nd 06, 12:14 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station
Pat Flannery
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robert casey wrote:


Which inspires the follow-up question: Has there ever been a solar
eclipse at the time (and place)
of seasonal Sattelite/Solar "white-out" (or whatever it is called)?


ROTFLMAO! :-)



I don't know.... could that occur? Eclipses can occur over the majority
of the Earth's surface, and could you have the thing occur with the GEO
satellite near the position of the eclipse in the sky? A lot of the
radio interference could come from the solar corona, and that's visible
during the eclipse.

Pat