USA 116 and ICO F2 Centaur

From: Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 15:01:31 PDT

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    At last dark skies are returning! After several failed attempts to find
    96-72 A, 95-66 A and 01-30C I saw:
    23728 95 066A   5919 G 20010802210720530 17 25 0058350+231850 38
    23728 95 066A   5919 G 20010802210838000 17 25 0157470+365000 58 S
    26858 01 026B   5919 G 20010802212820400 17 25 1920770+345200 58 V
    
    The latter is very doubtful - I found it 6 degrees from my only reference
    point, only with averted vision in 7*50, and for a few seconds, but the
    position agrees very nicely with prediction from
    ICO F2 Centaur r 8.6  3.0  0.0  3.0              10116 x 9806 km
    1 26858U 01026B   01201.13414914  .00000028  00000-0  00000-0 0   204
    2 26858  44.8703 217.0910 0095036  91.7333 269.4015  4.15708861  1284
    and none else, EXCEPT :
    Cosmos 81                                        1544 x 1396 km
    1 01571U 65070B   01198.54337659 -.00000080  00000-0  10000-3 0  2720
    2 01571  56.0600 227.1086 0094670  89.9577 271.2176 12.48758241636227
    
    The problem is that both of these are predicted 3 minutes after my "obs"!
    
    -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office)                         --
    -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home)  http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle --
    -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA,    59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m         --
    -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m         --
    
    
    
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