At 22:49 3/04/00 , Matthew_Fawcett@eastriding.gov.uk wrote: > > Does anyone know what the oldest objects still in Earth Orbit are? > Is Telstar 1 the oldest of them all? > > Matt Fawcett Thats trivial Matt, Vanguard 1, "the grapefruit" and its third stage rocket. Here is the start of a recent alldat.tle file Rather hard to see Vanguard 1 at 35S degrees let alone at 54, though I think some members of seesat have seen it. the oldest object you can see is 59 009 A, Explorer 7. Tony Beresford Vanguard 1 1 00005U 58002B 00088.79323596 +.00000336 +00000-0 +40487-3 0 04724 2 00005 034.2650 267.8426 1859653 284.0783 056.0927 10.82369685403803 Vanguard 2 1 00011U 59001A 00088.89891216 +.00005340 +00000-0 +29392-2 0 05813 2 00011 032.8697 291.6026 1510104 157.9248 209.4034 11.76501293741990 Vanguard 2 Rk 1 00012U 59001B 00088.48425900 .00004255 00000-0 25350-2 0 79 2 00012 32.9184 155.0603 1707370 301.7183 42.7987 11.36064516678269 Vanguard 1 Rk 1 00016U 58002A 00088.45739868 +.00000308 +00000-0 +45711-3 0 09305 2 00016 034.2558 217.8031 2035874 089.4958 293.6949 10.46610672683844 Vanguard 3 1 00020U 59007A 00089.13746849 +.00001701 +00000-0 +70228-3 0 09342 2 00020 033.3553 033.4938 1726816 236.9191 105.3802 11.43046483379000 Explorer 7 1 00022U 59009A 00089.08256676 +.00004341 +00000-0 +57584-3 0 03936 2 00022 050.3005 329.4425 0220985 244.9239 112.8615 14.66044787128447 Tiros 1 1 00029U 60002B 00089.15908275 +.00001707 +00000-0 +33450-3 0 07567 2 00029 048.3891 112.6225 0026836 077.6129 282.7765 14.67001923130646 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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