hello, and happy new year 2012, to all members of the list! This were a special new year's day morning for me, since I was at the edge of the French Riviera Observatory to take the last passage of Phobos-Grunt over France, after weeks of bad weather. The video with all available shooting details is on this page: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/phobos-grunt.html There is no sign of tumbling, and a video taken 24 hours before in close conditions shows PG in a similar orientation. The unexpected thing that I realized when I looked carefully at the video is that PG is moving backwards, with its solar panels deployed but at the opposite of the Sun. It's not surprising that it had no energy to communicate! regards Thierry Legault www.astrophoto.fr _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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