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Re: How do you follow a star?

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From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject Re: How do you follow a star?
Date Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:08:05 +1100
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On 26/12/2016 3:03 PM, john wrote:
> Sylvia
> "
> I think you've been watching too much television.
>
> All geosynchronous satellites orbit at the same altitude. They have to.
> There's no choice in the matter. They're also all in equatorial orbits.
>
> Sylvia.
> "
> See Yuri's comment on "satellite drag".
> Presumably, one neutralizes that, somehow
>

No, and there's negligible drag on a satellite in geosynchronous orbit 
anyway.

Sylvia.

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How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-24 16:05 -0800
  Re: How do you follow a star? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-12-25 05:57 +0000
  Re: How do you follow a star? pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-12-24 22:08 -0800
  Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 08:12 -0600
    Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 12:54 -0600
      Re: How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-25 10:59 -0800
        Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 13:20 -0600
          Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 11:40 +1100
            Re: How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-25 20:03 -0800
              Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 16:08 +1100
                Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-26 00:08 -0600
                Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 23:06 +1100

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