bruce_musson@dofasco.ca wrote: > I'm a little confused here... > Was the ISS actually the leader of the two ?? First of all, I would like to thank the many who replied to my mail problem message. I'm not the only one caught with that and it looks like an autoreply problem. For this morning ISS pass, Atlantis was in fact the leading object as it is most of the time after the separation from ISS. The Shuttle gets to a lower orbit that causes it to preceed the Station. This fact is reflected in the TLEs from both objects. MM for ISS is 15.620 rev/day and Atlantis is 15.625. People tend to assume the brighter one is the Shuttle because of its great size and white colour. I observed this beautiful pass also and the ISS was much brighter. I estimated it was around mag 0 and the Shuttle mag +1.5 to 2. Separation between the two was about 7 seconds. ISS 1 25544U 98067A 00262.46976949 .00008665 00000-0 10311-3 0 933 2 25544 51.5790 23.7872 0007466 235.1303 168.9378 15.61999819104575 STS-1006 1 26489U 00053A 00262.41736400 .00001074 00000-0 17769-4 0 337 2 26489 51.5774 24.0519 0007657 247.1827 222.3602 15.62509976 1544 Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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