Re: Satellite ID help requested...

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 00:30:03 EST

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    Using Findsat, I got the following one as being in the general
    vicinity and in sunlight.  It's not a good match, but I kind 
    of wonder if one of its millions of as-yet-uncataloged fellows 
    might have been in the right place at the right time:
    
    WESTFORD NEEDLES
    1 18615U 63014DK  02329.47953813  .00000002  00000-0  10000-3 0  4239
    2 18615  86.2528 344.3078 1727469 228.7734 115.1122  8.74857873291453
    
    Could someone supply elements for the epoch 02311?
    
    One thing I can't tell at all from the photo is whether an 
    object in a near-polar orbit could possibly match the track.
    At the time of the photo 52 Cygni was in the WNW.  There's
    more discussion on the newsgroup:
    
    sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
    
    
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