...Was the N Korean Missile Fired Towards Hawaii?

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:I remember seeing a map of the area showing where the missiles went.
:They all fell in the Sea Of Japan heading basically North East, which
:would not be toward Hawaii.

You don't remember very well. Likely impact area is almost pure
'east' from the launch site. The area shown includes the path a
missile would be on if it were aimed at Hawaii from their launch site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:N...ImpactSite.png

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"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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" wrote:

:I remember seeing a map of the area showing where the missiles went.
:They all fell in the Sea Of Japan heading basically North East, which
:would not be toward Hawaii.

You don't remember very well. Likely impact area is almost pure
'east' from the launch site. The area shown includes the path a
missile would be on if it were aimed at Hawaii from their launch site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:N...ImpactSite.png



South Korean report: Pyongyang may have readied another Taepodong-2
NBC News and news services
Updated: 9:47 a.m. ET July 7, 2006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13743714/


I'm not sure we can sit by and let N Korea practice
pot-shots at the home of our Pacific Fleet in Hawaii.
This story might not be over yet.


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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn

Fred J. McCall wrote:

You don't remember very well. Likely impact area is almost pure
'east' from the launch site.

That would be the smaller, easternmost impact site shown. The bigger
one with its long axis pointed NE is presumably for the other six
missiles, which were launched from a different location (just where is
unclear) than Musudan-ri.

The area shown includes the path a missile would be on if it were aimed at Hawaii from their launch site.

The problem is that the trajectory of a shot at Hawaii from Musudan-ri
is very close to that of a due-east satellite launch. The satellite
trajectory passes a bit to the west of Hawaii, but the divergence from
the Hawaii shot is small early in flight. So it would be tough to
distinguish between the two with only ~42 s of unambiguous first-stage
flight data to go on.

(Google Earth lets you draw great circle ground tracks and is handy for
getting a quick and not too inaccurate idea about such things. Remember
to put in a little lead to account for earth rotation (15 deg/hr)
during the flight.)