On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:02:57 +0000, Dr J R Stockton
wrote:

In sci.space.policy message c6162db7-da70-446a-b71c-aa26b5282199@f10g20
00hsf.googlegroups.com, Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:52:04, Allen Thomson
posted:

The satellite that's extremely likely to be the one in question,
USA-193, is in a 58.5 degree orbit. So if you live in northern Canada,
a fair chunk of Russia, most of Scandinavia, or Antarctica, you're
safe. Everybody else is (safe - epsilon), where epsilon is a teeny
quantity.

That's one way of annoying, by ignoring, the inhabitants of Alaska,
Greenland, and Iceland, for a start. Also of the Faeroes and of part of
the UK.

And don't forget the all-important Antarctic population.

But hey, we promise we'll make it up to you. From now on, every military
transport aircraft on a trans-polar route will carry a piece of surplus
space hardware with orders to randomly kick it out the back somewhere
above 60 degrees latitude. You can have space debris raining on you just
like everyone else; no need to feel ignored :-)


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