On February 20th I saw the ERS 1 and ERS 2 in almost the same place and course within a 30 sec. interval in Cassiopeia around 22.12 local time. Are they designed to do that or was it just a coincidence? Petter, Trondheim, Norway (63.40 N, 10,433 E) Sitat "McConahy, Ralph" <RMcConahy@jgld.gdscc.nasa.gov>: > > P S Bharadhwaj [mailto:psbad1@sancharnet.in] wrote: > > Noticed a satellite passing through Canis Minor and heading for Leo > this > evening (loc. Ahmedabad, India 23.03N, 72.546E). Almost immediately, > I > spotted a second satellite on almost the same course and trailing the > first > one. Both were about the same magnitude. > The second was moving faster, and overtook the first one just as they > passed > within a degree of Eta-Leo. > > Praveen, > > The two you saw were: > > Symphonie 2 r 6.4 2.0 0.0 5.8 d 13 > 1 08133U 75077B 03104.23103542 .00016125 00000-0 63034-3 0 1715 > 2 08133 25.3127 78.4519 0388622 41.0501 321.8607 14.75156014392972 > > The second, faster one was: > > Intlst 806Cn r 8.3 3.0 0.0 4.0 v 23 > 1 25240U 98014B 03104.38167425 .02516697 -13017-4 17631-2 0 8520 > 2 25240 22.4639 57.1731 0586874 213.2246 143.0011 14.97647099135794 > > Ralph McConahy > 34.5489N 117.2205W 912m > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org > List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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