Re: Unknown

From: Stephmon@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 17:38:48 PDT

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    In a message dated 4/10/00 7:11:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
    barnold@digiscape.com writes:
    
    > This morning while waiting for Mir to show up I saw two satellites
    >  coming SW to NE.  The time was about 5:20 am, and where I am is on
    >  daylight savings time. Both were close, about 4 to 5 degrees apart. They
    >  were almost overhead, maybe a little west of overhead at about 5:20 am.
    >  My location is 30.48.10 -89.00.04. Both were very bright, about
    >  Jupiter's brightness.
    >  I used Satspy 3.0 and McCants elements from yesterday, but I really can
    >  not tell what ones they were.
    
    I ran a search in Satellite Hunting, constrained to 5:20 - 5:30am Mag 3.5 for 
    your location and turned up what looks like a perfect match. Cosmos 1697 
    rocket and Cosmos 1980 rocket would have been passing through Bootes just as 
    you describe. Abbreviated Satellite Hunting output (the TLE's are from 
    McCants 4/10/00)...
    
    Local Time ±mm:ss       Satellite Name  Sat.#   Elev.   Azimuth Mag
    5:16:41 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r   16182    23°    222° [SW]   4.4
    5:20:09 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r   16182    56°    293° [W]    3.2
    5:24:01 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r   16182    20°    004° [N]    4.6
    
    Cosmos 1697 r   10.4  3.9  0.0  3.9 v
    1 16182U 85097B   00097.89037085 +.00000728 +00000-0 +39749-3 0 08736
    2 16182 070.9956 255.0177 0010164 277.7256 082.2749 14.15422568747245
    
    Local Time ±mm:ss       Satellite Name  Sat.#   Elev.   Azimuth Mag
    5:16:15 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r   19650    23°    220° [SW]   4.6
    5:19:42 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r   19650    57°    293° [W]    3.4
    5:23:32 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r   19650    20°    005° [N]    4.8
    
    Cosmos 1980 r   10.4  3.9  0.0  3.9 v
    1 19650U 88102B   00098.87888214  .00000800  00000-0  43688-3 0  8510
    2 19650  70.9927 253.1955 0013236   7.2341 352.8971 14.15082647587428
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