Kevin wrote: > UNID130905 > 1 99999 13248.04013271 0.00000154 00000-0 50000-4 0 06 > 2 99999 64.9838 138.2816 0011006 245.8285 249.7643 14.38796475 00 And Cees replied: > It looks like something NOSS like, but it doesn't immediately seem to > match anything we've lost for a while. Well, the following is not a match, but I still hope that one of you or someone will by accident catch at least one part of the following. I don't know for sure when it/they (TiPS/Ralph and Norton) was/were lost, but here are two elsets that I was able to locate online. The second one is from heavens-above.com: TiPS 2.5 0.0 0.0 6.3 d 1 23937U 96029F 03275.99999376 .00001600 00000-0 14382-2 0 08 2 23937 63.4055 287.3103 0242000 1.8302 358.1698 13.715421600 05 1 23937U 96029F 06195.10715782 0.00000300 00000-0 21157-3 0 07 2 23937 63.3975 71.9486 0341997 4.3835 355.6165 13.73294158 04 Presumably (certainly?) the tether broke and Ralph and Norton went their separate ways. While they were still tethered together, I could see Ralph and Norton sometimes with my binoculars and sometimes even the tether itself on exceptional passes. Jonathan's satcat file has designations for both Ralph and Norton. Once I accidentally saw something from a NOSS launch that flared to a magnitude that made it observable for me. Ted identified it, but I can't find either of those messages right now. It seems like maybe Ted called it "LIPS", but it's been a long time and that may not be correct. It was some sort of piece of a NOSS launch. Now back to your regularly scheduled observing and reporting... Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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