Re: mystery observation
Neil Clifford (n.clifford1@physics.oxford.ac.uk)
Sun, 27 Aug 1995 01:16:42 +0100 (BST)
Fowarded from Rainer Kracht <R.KRACHT@abbs.heide.de>:
>And, yesterday 950824 at 20:28:54 UT, near Polaris, I found a
>mystery object, about mag.+3 steady. I also timed it 77.2 seconds
>later, near zet Cyg. A check with cs9850812.tle and SkyMap revealed
>#09738 Cosmos 890 Rk as a likely candidate, but it should have
>passed 248 seconds earlier. New elsets reduced the error to 244 seconds.
I have checked all 8000+ grbs-satellites and found only #10135 Cosmos 925 R
77-61B as a candidate. It is also in cs950812 and cs950826.tle:
Cosmos 925 r 3.8 2.6 0.0 5.9
1 10135U 77061 B 95235.20011938 .00001206 00000-0 36908-4 0 8739
2 10135 81.2272 137.5893 0025141 80.4016 280.0060 15.32644923993727
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88-99A has raised its orbit:
KH 11-8
1 19625U 88 99 A 95236.92699820 .00007369 00000-0 91380-4 0 00
2 19625 97.8630 300.2508 0525421 10.1982 350.9691 14.74855379 02
Rainer (r.kracht@abbs.heide.de)