[meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA

[Greg Catterton]

no "hip shot" was intended. I was basing my opinions on reports I have read concerning this and as I have said before, I am not as experienced at these things as some of you are and the reports I read made it out to be a major health risk to people if it was a land impact. 
that said, I figured the health risk to marine life would have been the same.
I am not out to blast NASA or the atronaut, I just did not understand why they could not have simply returned it in a shuttle that was returning to earth. 



--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net> wrote:


> From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net>

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life - shame on NASA

> To: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>

> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 2:35 PM

> Hi Chris,

> 

> Thank you for replying in a short and easy way to describe

> the objects size 

> being trackable. I won't begin to pretend to know about

> these things. The 

> initial comment seemed like as hip-shot and I didn't

> think NASA or the 

> astronaut deserved it.

> 

> Best regards,

> Greg

> 

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> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Chris Peterson"

> <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>

> To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>

> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:23 PM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life -

> shame on NASA

> 

> 

> > Hi Greg-

> >

> > This thing was, in fact, deliberately discarded with

> the knowledge that it 

> > would reenter. It posed no risk to anything else

> because it was large 

> > enough to track, in a known orbit, and was sure to

> have a short lifetime 

> > in space. It had no potential to produce any

> additional debris.

> >

> > This isn't the first thing they scuttled from the

> ISS.

> >

> > Chris

> >

> > *****************************************

> > Chris L Peterson

> > Cloudbait Observatory

> > http://www.cloudbait.com

> >

> >

> > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > From: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>

> > To: <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com>

> > Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:10 PM

> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space junk - marine life

> - shame on NASA

> >

> >

> >> Hello Greg,

> >>

> >> Where do you read that an astronaut, "..threw

> it (ammonia tank) overboard 

> >> (from the International Space Station) during a

> space walk in July 

> >> 2007."? I find it highly unlikely that

> material would be purposely tossed 

> >> into space to potentially be a floating target for

> future spacecraft 

> >> and/or satellites to hit. I do not think NASA has

> the same mindset that 

> >> some cruise ship operators have by throwing their

> bags of trash into the 

> >> ocean.

> >>

> >> My thoughts!

> >> Greg

> >

> > 

> 

> 

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