Re: SV: UNID satellite

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Bjoern Gimle suggested to me to forward this to SeeSat-L:

> >a few minutes ago, at 19:08:42 UTC (+/- 10 s) near RA 14h07', Decl 20°54'
> >(+/- 2 deg) I saw a satellite that closely followed the path of the USA
> >129 search orbits you posted on Saturday evening. Brightness varied
> >(except for a 5 second flash) accordingly to SkyMap's prediction to those
> >passes.
> >
> >If this were USA 129, it would be 19:12 s late against this elset:
                         oops, typo: 19 min 12 sec
> >
> >USA 129 search
> >1 24680U 96072  A 99082.41540557  .00012000  00000-0  28000-3 0    17
> >2 24680  97.8700 145.9000 0445000  12.8369 348.4917 14.78888888  5628
> >
> >I'd say there was no significant cross-track error.

My location was 54.3577 N, 10.1322 E, "no significant cross-track error"
means less or equal than 2 degrees.

Hej då, Marco

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