Ed Cannon sent me the following this morning. He was looking for flaring geosyncs and noticed this object passing through one of his reference star fields. There was no match with any known object. He was at the E. Ney Museumm grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. >I didn't come up with anything for the following, >which went through a known area (21:18, -5). It was >about +6 and steady. > >2003-10-17 UTC (2000 coordinates) >1:00:37.6 21:18:00 -4.75 >1:00:44.7 21:21:00 -4.35 >1:00:59.0 21:26:00 -3.90 >1:02:49.3 22:05:00 0.0 >1:03:44.2 22:24:30 1.8 I tried to fit orbits through these points and I came up with the following series of elsets: 1 99991U 03290.03331171 .00400000 00000-0 41417-4 0 08 2 99991 28.9100 271.2700 1880000 223.5000 136.5000 12.77000000 09 1 99991U 03290.03389737 .00400000 00000-0 76777-4 0 06 2 99991 28.3000 269.8700 1900000 233.5000 126.5000 12.79000000 00 1 99991U 03290.03475617 .00400000 00000-0 39170-4 0 05 2 99991 27.0000 266.6700 1970000 253.5000 106.5000 12.55000000 02 1 99991U 03290.03519945 .00400000 00000-0 82700-4 0 05 2 99991 26.0000 264.1200 2000000 273.5000 86.5000 11.82000000 02 I assume this is a Centaur or Delta in a decaying orbit. It was about 1700 miles high in the southeast at a range of over 2200 miles when Ed saw it. Since the mean motion is so uncertain we will search for 2 hours tonight. Mike McCants Austin, TX ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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