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From: Kevin Fetter (kevin_fetter@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 04:46:14 EDT


Today at around 2:40 am edt ( 6:40 UT ) June 20 , I had a naked eye sat pass 
by. I ran a check of the path trying to match it to alan's satbase.tle and 
mike's classfd.tle files. Well two of them appeaar to  close to what I saw. 
They are 2 peices of debris. The rest don't match what I saw so far.

THOR ABLESTAR DEB
1 06842U 61015KP  02170.66757008  .00000327  00000-0  12488-2 0   170
2 06842  66.7411 280.0338 0660732 152.9586 210.7516 12.43608247241850
ELEKTRON 1 DEB
1 19994U 64006X   02155.89177100 +.00051175 +00000-0 +41841-2 0 06428
2 19994 060.7788 316.4014 1061487 212.7585 140.3257 13.21048744355016

IntID/Name   CatNo Source period   Incl Apogee Perigee      RCS
------------ ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- --------

1961-015KP   06842 US      115.8   66.7   2011     972   0.0191
THOR ABLESTAR DEB         Launched (1961/06/29)

1964-006X    19994 CIS     109.0   60.8   1983     378   0.0108
ELEKTRON 1 DEB            Launched (1964/01/30)



It was a slow moving naked eye sat. If it's clear tomorrow morning , I will 
try and observe them again. I have to make sure it wasn't one of them them.

So if it was one of these, then wow!

A naked eye sat from something that small. Must reflect alot of light:)

Kevin

44.6062 N
75.6910 W

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