Hey Fox, fyi: Text surrounded by vertical bars (|) is quoted, if the character after the first bar isn't whitespace. By the way, you're right... that is scary. 19,400 miles is quite a bit though when you consider that it is approximately 6 times the length of the United States. Still.... that's a bit too close for comfort. I recently joined mk, b_b and some others in sending a Hubski payload in to space. We didn't quite get the results we had hoped for though. aside: Did you know Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids -- fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks – enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Cool stuff with your weather balloon experiment, that looked like fun!
It was a lot of fun. I hope we can take another crack at it in the spring or summer.