Near collision coming up !
Bjorn Gimle (bjorn.gimle@online.dextel.se)
22 Sep 1995 12:41:18 GMT
I happened to watch Cosmos 2227 rocket, #22285 closely follow
the path of Cosmos 1833 rocket, #17590, seven minutes earlier.
Their speeds were also very similar, and later checking revealed that
the gap closes by less than two minutes per day, and on Monday 950925
their orbits practically intersect, and the two large (10.4 x 3.9 m)
rockets will pass within 8 km from each other at about 15:33 UT !
Even in the morning before, and the evening after, they could be
quite interesting to watch ( or photograph ).
You may of course see some other objects apparantly intersecting
their orbits, depending on your location, but the following
lists a number of objects that may physically come closer
than 100 km to #17590 during Monday, according to Allen Thomson's
el950911 + updates of prime candidates, and Rob Matson's COLA.EXE:
23323 The latest set =
23277 DMSP B5D2-7 Db
22830 93061 H
22707 Radcal Deb. 10.6
22683 The latest set =
22638 Alexis 6.5 1.0
22285 Cosmos 2227 r 2.0 10.4
22081 92053 B
21688 91061 A
20261 89080 A
19659 88102 F
18767 85042 K
18698 87098 D
18410 The latest set =
18187 87060 A
16203 82055 E
15031 84056 A
14344 82037 C
13991 83031 A
13736 82118 A
12624 DE 1 6.0 1.1
12560 NOAA 7 DEB
11112 Cosmos 1048 r 4.0 7.4
10515 Meteor 2-3 Rk 5.0
7727 The latest set =
6392 Meteor 1-14 3.5 5.0
5398 Gridsphere 1 5.5 1.1
5036 The latest set =
5016 The latest set =
4166 69082 J
4132 The latest set =
1293 65016 F
812 The latest set =
312 The latest set =
123 61015 H
122 The latest set =
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