On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Michael McCants wrote: > Since Fairing 2 has not been seen in many months, I take a look up in the > south every once in a while. Last night I spotted an unknown object > on a proper west to east course. I have taken a C elset and picked > each of the two mean motions: > > 1 99991U 02003X 03116.99808049 0.00001125 00000-0 41197-2 0 06 > 2 99991 29.0038 51.7139 7197372 75.2828 284.7170 2.28982042 01 > > 1 99991U 02003X 03116.99758975 0.00001125 00000-0 51900-2 0 01 > 2 99991 29.0038 51.7139 7197372 75.2828 284.7170 2.27802042 01 Alright, I am finding getting around to responding. Last Saturday I observed a pass of the MDS 1 Fairing 1 (02003C) in which it was flashing to 0/-1 every 7..8 seconds -- pretty much the same as Mike described. About half an hour earlier, from ~02:13 to ~02:17 27 Apr UTC (times are for culmination to shadow entry) I saw a similar pass by a unknown satellite (unknown in that I couldn't find a reasonable match to anything). It had roughly the same flash characteristics, flashing to 0 or -1 every 7ish seconds. I hadn't yet gotten around to tinkering with the outdated elements for MDS 1 Fairing 2 (psuedo cat # 90012), but now Mike has done this already. Either of the elements above gives a decent match time-wise, but the elevation is somewhat too high (85 deg vs observed 60-70 deg). Too bad it's cloudy now ... the elements above show a pass for tonight. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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