On 06/12/2018 09:08, C. Bassa via Seesat-l wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Both passes are consistent with Tiangong-2 [41765/16057A], A Chinese > space station. > > Regards, > Cees > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:37 PM AjK via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > Hi Andy and Cees, I am not convinced about Tiangong 2 being the culprit. Andy's site is around 56° north. I.S.S. comes as far north as 51°.6 So no closer than 4°.4. But Andy has been unsuccessful in tracking I.S.S. Tiangong is at inclination 42°.8, so no closer than 13°.2 (exactly 3 times further than I.S.S. ) In fact, I would not be surprised to find that Tiangong never comes above the horizon at 56° N. I am open to being persuaded that Tiangong was the object in question, with further explanation. Times of future possible passes and resulting reception of similar contacts would be persuasive. regards Russell _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Dec 06 2018 - 04:13:04 UTC
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