The Genesys spacecraft was imaged by the 58cm Schimdt camera of the Catalina Sky Survey may 10, 8h 40min - 11h 30min UT. Its brightness in the R band was magnitude 16. The range was about 650,000 Km. It was moving quite slowly for a satellite only 3-4 degrees per day relative to stars. It was reported to the Co-ordinating center ( Minor Planet Center) as an asteroid, but the validating software picked it out as a known satellite. Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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