Re: object still near the ISS

From: Bill Bard via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:59:17 -0500
My app shows at least Sortie, Argus-02, Harp, Socrates, Cyrocube, Qarman, Radsat-U, and Phoenix leading ISS.

Bill

> On Feb 24, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Patrick Schmeer via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
> 
>  Could it be an unexpectedly bright CubeSat?
> 
> Btw, Cygnus NG-12 (2019-071A, #44701) departed from the
> ISS on January 31 and is still in orbit (but not near the ISS).
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick
> -------
>     Am Montag, 24. Februar 2020, 15:51:01 MEZ hat C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> Folgendes geschrieben:  
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 3:37 PM Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l
>> <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
>> Anyone any idea what this object is? There does not appear to be an obvious
>> candidate, other than one of the recently released cubesats, which however are
>> very small.
> 
> It's curious and confusing. For some reason the latest spacetrack.org
> catalogs still include Soyuz MS-13 [44437/19041A], despite having 18
> day old elements, as the mission landed on February 6. Yet, no other
> object in the spacetrack.org catalog is as close to ISS.
> 
> Regards,
>     Cees
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