Hi everybody, Following the recent discussion about the explosion of 1999-057C, I used the available elsets (debris E to AH, #26118 to 26145) to generate a 3D plot using SatSpy of the actual position of all these debris at 23:25 UT on April 16. It shows most of the debris are already scattered all around the orbital plane. Interestingly, all the orbits intersect roughly at the same point. (Question to analysts :) Could this be the place where the breakup occured ? See the plot as viewed normal to the orbital plane : http://www.obsat.com/images/debplotA.gif The same plot without the traces. The yellow crosses indicate positions : http://www.obsat.com/images/debplotB.gif Cheers , Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 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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