Harro.Zimmer wrote: > > Todays Satellite Catalog Action Report shows as a new SpaceCom registration > #25776 (UNK) 1979-009B > > 1979-009A is the Japanese Experimental Communications Satellite - ECS 1 - > or AYAME 1. In all earlier editions of the Satellite Catalogue I haven't seen > a B - object. But in the " R.A.E. Earth Table of Earth Satellites 1957 - 1989" > there is 1979-009B (rocket) with an epoch and the usual orbital informations. > Within the changes over the past 20 years the "R.A.E rocket body" seems identical > with SpaceCom's "new" object. > Any clues or ideas ? These last elements for A are 5.5 years old. I haven't compared them, but if the new elements are similar, that raises the question, is 25776 B, or recovered A? 79009A 1 11261U 79009A 93364.99999999 -.00000068 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 05886 2 11261 004.8500 053.2620 1027781 214.1630 172.9940 01.09673722000011 -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@superlink.net Sky Views: http://mars.superlink.net/jrespler/skyviews.htm Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey