Hello all, On the evening of 4 October, I observed Cosmos 1607 (15378) through 7x35 binoculars at approximately 2045 EDT (0045 GMT, 5 October). At the same time, I saw a mystery object of about the same magnitude (predicted magnitude for Cosmos 1607 was +4.5) in the same field of view, either leading or trailing Cosmos 1607 by around 5 degrees. I have been unable to determine what this object was; no other satellite was predicted to have been at that location in the sky. It appeared to be travelling on the same exact orbit as Cosmos 1607; they did not merely intersect within the same field of view. Considering that Cosmos 1607 has been in orbit since 1984, I have discounted the possibility that it had released a payload. My location is: Latitude: 39.706 Longitude: -75.683 Can anyone help me in identifying this object? Thanks. Very Respectfully, Jonathan Wojack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111006/1ebffc3a/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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