Dirk Devlies wrote: > Could this have been a flaring GEO? Use the pointed tree as reference. In zoomed out you see > Ursa Major en 'under' it Leo. Zoomed in, you still see the tree. > > http://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20150312_01575513/ufo-boven-lommel-gespot > > Has been spotted near 51° north and 5° east. Time: around 22:23 local time (= UT+1) on march > 11th. > > It is south of constellation Leo - Declination aound -7° So, might have been something in > GEO-belt. The object was near 10:59, -4.5 (2000.0). For the observing site, Lommel, Belgium, I used the approximate coordinates 51.23 N, 5.31 E. IDSat reveals that the most likely candidate is Cosmos 2351 (98027A / 25327), which passed within 28 s (time) and 0.06 deg of the bright object. It was in a 66.6 deg, 3732 X 36675 km orbit, and was about 28,700 km from the observer, moving with an angular velocity of 0.01 deg/s. So it was a flaring-HEO satellite. Information about the satellite is available here: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1998-027A Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Mar 12 2015 - 09:29:59 UTC
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