Re: the shuttle is trailing the ISS like I thought

From: Bill Purcell (bpurcell@pdq.net)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 00:46:36 EDT

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    From NW Houston, I saw the same thing as they made a low northerly pass Sunday evening - shuttle trailing by about 10 seconds, and it was the dimmer of the two objects.  However, they made an abbreviated pass tonight (ascending to 17 degrees in the NW), and the trailing object (still the shuttle, I presume) was significantly brighter.   Too bad they entered the shadow so soon - it would've been a spectacular sight had they been visible across the entire sky.

    Bill Purcell, 30.12N, 95.58W




    On Mon Aug 20 15:59 , Kevin Fetter sent:

    Yesterday when the flew by, the leading object was brighter. So to me it was the ISS.
    The tle data seem to agree with that.

    Just to be sure, I used the following

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    It shows the shuttle following the ISS. I used the longitude data to see.

    So the leader was the ISS, last night.

    Kevin


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