On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ron Lee wrote: > Separated by 5-6 seconds in time. I am assuming that the > fainter leading object was the Shuttle. This may be my first > obs of both this close together. Both easy naked eye objects. I just witnessed the pair make a 57 deg pass here. The Shuttle was about 5 deg ahead of the Space Station. ISS was about -1.5, the Shuttle about -0.5 though it brightened to be about the same as ISS just before the Shuttle began entering Earth's shadow. A peculiarity was the orange tint of the ISS; it was a distinctly different color than the Shuttle. Perhaps this is an effect of the new solar panel arrays? This pass wasn't quite as dramatic as the HST/Shuttle pass last Christmas day, but still a noteworthy show. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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