Re: Unknown satellite high speed bright

From: Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:40:14 -0400
On that topic, just a note to be cautious of the TLEs for 41765-41767.
As of today the IDs were again swapped - 41765 is now Tiangong,41766 is the
rocket body.
Yesterday's TLEs had Tiangong as 41766 and the rocket as 41765 and Monday
and earlier
had Tiangong as 41766 and the rocket as 41767, with 41765 giving data for a
debris object.
I expect the IDs to be stable from now on.
 - Jonathan McDowell


On 20 September 2016 at 23:58, Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> wrote:

> Jim Donovan wrote:
>
> > A bright satellite, of magnitude -2 to 1, varying, just flew over
> > Placerville, CA, from WNW to SSE, directly overhead, at a speed relative
> to
> > the ISS of 3 to 4 times.  Overhead 20-SEP-2016 at 19:55 PDT (21-SEP-2016
> > 02:55 Z)
> >
> > Heavens-Above shows nothing of it.
> >
> > What in the world is it?
> >
> > Please help.  I saw it last night at 03:05Z.
>
> On both nights, you saw 16057B / 41766, which is the rocket body of
> Tiangong 2.
>
> Ted Molczan
>
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