Hi and thanks for your reply : > I would also find it strange for an object to flare in shadow and don't have an answer for you > there other than to question if it was really in shadow . Yes , good point . Perhaps others could confirm that possibility . Sept 11 2012 06:00:15 UTC 43.20543 -79.26001 100 M Elev For that object Satflare indicates - DEC 43.45 RA 5.24h After that recent stretching exercise ... (see : Any Idea Which Of These Objects I May Have Seen ?) (see : Complicated Question about sky geometry ) ... this particular sighting was a can of corn . Nestled right in there between Capella , Almaaz , Hoedus II & Haedus . It could not have been any easier . Time wise I may have been off as much as 4 seconds , because I had not reset my stop watch app and had to manually pull it out of my pocket and pull it up and hit the hot-key . However , time accuracy in this case isn't so critical . I spotted it in an area that was still (supposedly) in shadow ... The best-guess , for me , might be a UNID perhaps , that may have an odd , maybe deep orbit that may have taken it out of shadow . However , that is a very , very deep hypothesis that will probably never be answered , I'd have to guess . > However, regarding your last question, the space-track (NORAD) common names are not unique. > While in-tact satellites have unique names, rocket bodies and debris do not. The rocket > bodies are named by class (CZ-4C is a designation for a Chinese Long March 4C). Debris is > named after the source body name with deb appended. For the case of rocket bodies, it's > therefore possible for debris from different sources to have the same common name. The > international designation can tell you which objects are associated with the same launch. > For your case, this is 2010-009E, which means 36417 is debris from a launch of a CZ-4C > that was the 9th launch in 2010 and is the 5th (the "E") object cataloged from that launch. Well , very interesting . I had no idea . I Really need to start researching more of course . Thanks again for your time & information . Cheers ! gc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120913/a0c69a90/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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