At 04:57 PM 16/10/05, you wrote: >Leo, > >Leo Barhorst wrote: > >>Hello Rainer, >> >>I have two candidates using Skymap and TLE's from Oct 4. >> >>Best fit is 99-57 KP a fragment of a chinese rocket. >>Can you give a magnitude estimate? > >Thanks for your investigation. >The object peaked at at least 1 mag, so it must a bigger item, most likely a spent upperstage. > >> >>Also 03-49 A was on the same track, but passed Eps Aur a bit earlier at 19:42:1 Rainer, My own investigations using latest classfd.tle and later TLEs than Leo dont mention either of the obkects he mentions. Only suspect found within a minute of time and a degree and Mike McCants's FINDSAT was debris piece 1974 89CH at a range of 3100Km. However it was 15 seconds early and 0.8 degrees off your fix Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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