This morning while observing Intelsat 501 flashes, I had a slow moving sat come by. I ran an id, and it was the following Catalog number = 24712 Name = ARIANE 3 DEB International Designator = 1986-026G So a peice of the Ariene 3 rocket. I beleive it could be seen with just the eye, when it reaches perigee. So those in the right area, feel free to take a look, and let me know., thanks. I'll never see a perigee pass of it, due it's orbital inclination of 9 degrees:( At 9:54:50 UTC ( Mar 29 ) it passed below a Magnitude 6.5 Star located at RA (J2000.0): 16 54 40.22 declination -11 47 32.8 It passed within 5 arc minutes of that star. It was between Mag 10 to 11, I would estimate. It was 23000 km away at the time, not bad:) Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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