Re: Fw: {MPML} Very unusual sky event of August 16

From: bk_hunter@sympatico.ca
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 09:59:46 EDT

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    Hello,
    
    The two horizontal (EW) tracks are probably geostationary satellites.  Using the coordinates of Little Rock, AR,  I find a decent fit to:
    
    24713 97002A AMC-2 and 25152 99006A Brazilsat B3
    
    Cheers,
    
    Brian Hunter
    
    44.2357N
    76.5113N
    95m
    
    
    > 
    > >A very interesting event was captured this morning at ASO (Petit Jean 
    > >Mountain South MPC
    > > H45) while acquiring a routine CCD image for asteroid astrometry.  What 
    > > appears to be a
    > > major breakup of some object passing through the frame was caught in a 
    > > 60-second
    > > exposure of NEO 2007 PP9 in the constellation of Aquarius at 09:24 U.T. 
    > > (Aug. 16).
    > >
    > > A full description of the capture and the actual image is posted on the 
    > > ASO website News
    > > Section at:
    > > http://www.arksky.org/smf/index.php?topic=1385.0
    > >
    
    
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