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Re: (meteorobs) OT Fwd: First object in space
Title: Re: (meteorobs) OT Fwd: First object in
space
For those who might be interested i remember the following item
which I read as a kid in Sky and Telescope:
On October 16, 1957 the USAF
successfully launched pellets at a speed faster than 15 km/sec (some
3.5 km/sec faster than the velocity necessary to escape from the
earth) with an Aerobee rocket. The nose section of the rocket ascended
to a height of 87 km where shaped charges blasted the pellets into
space. It is claimed that the Superschmidt Telescope at Sacremento
Peak photographed the trajectory with a rotating shutter. These little
metal pellets would therefore be the first objects to be shot into
interplanetary space, months before the first launch to escape
velocity (Luna 1, January 1959).
Clear skies,
TRR
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