On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Wim Holwerda wrote: > On 27 May a friend of mine noticed while observing the sun, a black dot > transiting the solar disk and he wondered if this might have been a > satellite. It crossed the sun from West to East in approx. 8 sec > (estimated). It left the solardisk at 06h29m52s (UT) at the Eastern rim. The > coordinates of the observer are: lat. 51° 32' 50" N, long. 05° 04' 48" E. 8 seconds is too long for a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite. LEO satellite transits are hard enough to see with a telescope, anything in a higher orbit than LEO would be harder still. More than likely it was an airplane or bird (something terrestrial anyway) that your friend saw. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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