Re: Mystery object
Jacob Nevins (jacob@spuddy.mew.co.uk)
Sun, 14 Jan 96 11:05:49 GMT
On 8 Jan Bjorn Gimle <bjorn@tt-tech.se> wrote:
j>> Out of curiosity, does anyone archive old elsets?
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b> seds.lpl.arizona.edu and kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
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Thanks for this info; also thanks to other folks who mailed me
with similar information.
j>> Time: 2000-2100 BST (1900-2000 GMT)
b> According to my program, the Sun didn't set until 2017 GMT !!
> (In direction 303 degrees)
Indeed - however from where I am a large hill obscures between
ten and twenty degrees of sky in the west. Thus I couldn't
actually see the Sun; however the sky was still quite bright.
When I say 1900-2000 GMT I mean it could have occurred at any
time during that period but I didn't think to note the exact
time.
b> The only real candidate is SeaSat 1...
Thanks for that - I imagine that satellites as bright as -4 or
so are very rare, and it may have been a little fainter - but
you can imagine the sky brightness when the Sun was still above
the horizon.
b> I'll try to get some ideas from launch/decay info, and let
> SkyMap search my elset(s) for more candidates.
OK, thanks very much for your time.
On 9 Jan Jim Meadows <jim.meadows@the-matrix.com> wrote:
j> I'll hazard the guess that it was no satellite at all.
What else could it have been? A weather balloon, or one of the
other usual candidates? It certainly wasn't a planet or anything
like that - it was moving too fast.
Regards - Jacob
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