[Laser] Laser retroreflectors on Sats

[Tim Toast]

>
>Also, for the Iridium satellites, note that the Sun is 
>not a point source. Also, note that the Iridium 
>satellites are in a stabilized orientation. Plus, note
>that the Sun is quite bright.  :-)
>

It does seem like the reflections from iridium sats of 
ground based lasers would be weak and also very brief.
Much shorter than the sun glints. Instead of the nice 
long 10 or 15 second brightening due to the sun having
a half degree source size, lasers -being point sources- 
would have a much shorter length of maybe only a few 
milliseconds (a guess) not to mention a much smaller area
over which they could be seen.

>
>Run the numbers, and I think you'll find the answer is 
>midway between totally impossible, and almost totally 
>impossible.  :*)
>

but i like those odds!

-toast