Re: Moon mark

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:42:53 GMT, pausch@xxxxxxx (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

To be able to resolve the flags left on the Moon from on or near the
Earth, one would need an optical space telescope with an aperture of
at least some 250 meters! By going into the far ultraviolet, the
aperture requirements could be lowered to perhaps some 50 meters.
But we're nowhere near such a telescope yet.

And somehow, I think that if we had such a superb instrument at our
disposal we'd be utilizing its valuable time on other targets <g>.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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