Due to an apparent meteorological malfunction, the seasonally abnormal, but highly persistent, Gulf of Mexico cloudiness of the last few weeks broke last evening just after severe thunderstorms raked the Cleveland area. The break left a blue haze in parts of the sky and very light white cloud (contrails?) crisscrossing the rest. Mir 1 16609U 86017A 95177.57042795 .00002606 00000-0 42223-4 0 1007 2 16609 51.6480 110.7224 0004878 115.5949 244.5543 15.56965667534337 was very easy naked eye as it went 70 degrees up and STS-71 1 99971U 95178.99755065 .00073094 00000+0 36497-3 0 9065 2 99971 51.6510 103.7566 0070259 195.3708 164.5159 15.76427146 47 a little more difficult as it went into the shadow of the Earth while only about 30 degrees up. Many thanks to Neil Clifford for posting the STS-71 elset which proved to be very accurate (Atlantis was about 3s behind). Thnaks especially for doing so with enough lead time to allow me to notify many others. I would guess that over the day which remains before docking that Atlantis will steadily close the difference between the second and first elsets above, meaning that STS-71 should be a few minutes behind Mir here in North America this evening. Here are the latest TLEs from OIG Goddard: Mir 1 16609U 86017A 95178.66157061 .00002348 00000-0 38713-4 0 1014 2 16609 51.6480 105.2604 0004925 119.1316 241.0170 15.56970458534566 Mir 1 16609U 86017A 95178.66157061 .00002044 00000-0 34587-4 0 1023 2 16609 51.6485 105.2627 0004953 121.1692 238.9758 15.56968809534561 STS71 1 23600U 95030A 95179.58333333 -.00000780 00000-0 00000+0 0 53 2 23600 51.6498 100.7531 0065396 181.4638 263.2866 15.74302938 121 Cheers. Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu 216-243-4980 --- Find the good and praise it.Received on Wed Jun 28 1995 - 14:38:00 UTC
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