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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
X-To: Michael Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:02:07 +0100
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I'm not David, but I hope that's OK?  ;-)

= > The Danish built satellite "?rsted" was finally launched
=                              ^^^^^^^^
= DAvid, can you get an English equivalent of that Danish character?
= I want to put this on the education site. My guess is that it's Ae,
= but I'd like to be sure.

The English equivalent name is "Oersted" (but pronounced with a 'eu'
as in the Dutch word 'deur').

I'm almost sure the first letter is normally written as an 'o' and 'e'
joined to form one character, i.e. the right side of the o touches the
left side of the e.

"Oersted" is the old unit for measuring the strength of a magnetic field
and this name matches perfectly with the mission of the satellite, which
is to measure the earths magnetic field.

Hope this helps. ;-)

Dirk

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