Re: East meets West to solve space storm mystery (Forwarded)

From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:53:35 +0100

In message <YqiMc.42066$Gf7.1420019@news20.bellglobal.com>, Andrew Yee
<ayee@nova.astro.utoronto.ca> writes
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>Date: 19th July 2004
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>EAST MEETS WEST TO SOLVE SPACE STORM MYSTERY
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>Tan Ce 2 (TC-2) will fly in a highly elliptical polar orbit of 700 x
>39,000 km (440 x 24,375 miles). Over a period of at least one year, it
>will sample the polar cap and cusp regions.

Possibly a dumb question, but does that mean the apogee is over one of
the poles?

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