subject: Results observations Cosmos 2421 satellite (2010/04/05) _______________________________________________________________ Hereby my presentation of observing results of a favorable pass of the suspected disintegrated Cosmos 2421 sat, orbiting at an altitude comparable with the ISS and subject of an important ISS-avoidance maneuver in 2008. As I reported earlier, when inspecting the first frames of the session, the captured object gave an impression to be pretty big, too large to be just a small piece of a fully fragmented satellite. Interesting as well, is that Russian Space Officials have repeatedly denied that this satellite exploded at all. I would keep the question open, but at least my own impression is that the satellite shows in the recent images too much size and shape to be fragmented, especially if you can make out clearly its solar panels: http://www.startje.be//vieuw.php?qid=350044 http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 Best regards, Ralf Vandebergh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100415/c13610a8/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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