Re: mystery observation

Neil Clifford (n.clifford1@physics.oxford.ac.uk)
Sun, 27 Aug 1995 01:16:42 +0100 (BST)

Fowarded from Rainer Kracht <R.KRACHT@abbs.heide.de>:

>And, yesterday 950824 at 20:28:54 UT, near Polaris, I found a 
>mystery object, about mag.+3 steady. I also timed it 77.2 seconds 
>later, near zet Cyg. A check with cs9850812.tle and SkyMap revealed 
>#09738 Cosmos 890 Rk as a likely candidate, but it should have 
>passed 248 seconds earlier. New elsets reduced the error to 244 seconds. 
  
I have checked all 8000+ grbs-satellites and found only #10135 Cosmos 925 R  
77-61B as a candidate. It is also in cs950812 and cs950826.tle: 
  
Cosmos 925 r     3.8  2.6  0.0  5.9 
1 10135U 77061  B 95235.20011938  .00001206  00000-0  36908-4 0  8739 
2 10135  81.2272 137.5893 0025141  80.4016 280.0060 15.32644923993727 
  
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88-99A has raised its orbit: 
  
KH 11-8 
1 19625U 88 99  A 95236.92699820  .00007369  00000-0  91380-4 0    00 
2 19625  97.8630 300.2508 0525421  10.1982 350.9691 14.74855379    02 
  
  
Rainer  (r.kracht@abbs.heide.de)