-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you, and I concur. I downloaded fresh elements for the Ablestar rocket debris and let XEphem show me the two objects again. I got the same behavior on my monitor as I saw in the sky. This is probably the most faint object I've seen yet. Any guess on what its magnitude would have really been? John Ted Molczan wrote: > John, I believe the second object was 61015M / 127, a small piece of debris from > the (unintended) explosion of the Ablestar rocket stage that inserted Transit 4A > (61015A / 116) and Injun (61015B / 117) into orbit. It was the first such > explosion of the Space Age; nearly 300 pieces have been catalogued. > > Ted Molczan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJnq7V9ZbI0D1bQpkRAtvSAJ9aaId7txN3OBuKZZgHjuirZGI9ggCglGw2 AaRixCSaBZmxGnfpsTKfPVs= =SyYI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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