Very fortunately, the weather was favorable enough, and I just barely managed to get up just in time to see Discovery and ISS at the 10:49 UTC pass, low in the SE->ESE->E. ISS was much brighter. (I forgot to look for the very good HST pass when I first went out the door.) Sparing you all the long story, I didn't have my binoculars and didn't get the two spacecraft near a star but attempted anyway below a bright star in Orion and got 3-4 seconds separation. At least one local TV news report was last night informing viewers of tomorrow morning's very high pass over here, which will be about 11:15-16 UTC. Last night we saw the July 2 unknown and observed that it is tumbling slowly but not with a wide magnitude variation. It now has been assigned the pseudo-catalog number 90040, and here's the latest elset that I have: Unknown 050702 1 90040U 05683A 05216.01964312 0.00000320 00000-0 40568-2 0 08 2 90040 27.5425 183.6842 6884554 149.5233 210.4766 2.57972443 08 Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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