Nope That's the MEPSI experiment. It two very small satellites attached together by a tether. It was Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Here a picture of them http://www.zeto.czest.pl/astro/sat/mepsi1.jpg Kevin Observing site # 1 Brockville, Ontario 44.6062 N 75.6910 W Observing Site #2 Located by Centre Lake 44.5985 N 75.8531 W From: Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org Subject: A third object with Shuttle & ISS Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:50:13 -0600 (CST) Mike McCants just told me about this. There's apparently something else up there in the same orbit (27562 below). Did they drop something on a spacewalk? ISS (ZARYA) 1 25544U 98067A 02336.18166133 .00140171 00000-0 19004-2 0 4314 2 25544 51.6360 289.4670 0003111 225.9823 275.3484 15.56678595230179 STS-113 1 27556U 02052A 02336.87613426 .00013720 00000-0 19050-3 0 335 2 27556 51.6321 285.9871 0005671 239.0873 196.7245 15.57320542 1353 UNK 1 27562U 02052B 02336.91999461 .00009532 00000-0 13059-3 0 17 2 27562 51.6512 285.7530 0006462 207.3559 114.4692 15.58112573 19 Going out now to attempt to see the two bright ones (no binoculars with me). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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