Photo and video of Dragon, ISS, 2014-022C Dragon debris

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:20:11 +0200
Hi all

Yesterday in late twilight near 20:07 UT I observed the Dragon CRS-3 chasing the 
ISS by about one minute, and also a 3rd object related to the Dragon launch, 
2013-022C/39682, a few minutes earlier. The Dragon was well visible at about 
mag. +1.5 at a max elevation of 26 degrees.

The latter passed some 3-4 minutes in front of ISS and Dragon and was slowly 
alternating between mag +3.5 and invisibility.

Images and a video can be seen here:

http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-spacex-dragon-crs-3-iss-and-piece.html

Any thoughts on what 2014-022C is? The Dragon nose cone? One of the solar panel 
covers? One of the nanosat dispensers?

- Marco

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