DeHBeaver0@aol.com recently posted ... > > Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! > > Satellites cannot travel from East to West! That would be going AGAINST the > earths rotation. You must have seen something else. One (of many) counterexamples to this statement is the Israeli satellite Ofeq 3 (23549 = 95-018A) which is in a 143-degree inclined orbit which one can consider to be in a retrograde 37-degree orbit : Ofeq 3 1.0 0.0 0.0 6.3 v 1.5 1 23549U 95018A 00058.76384949 .00045892 00000-0 16720-2 0 6464 2 23549 143.3364 244.7978 0005048 203.1428 156.9088 15.26593412272104 (I imagine the "wrongness" of its direction of travel had to with geo- political constraints on the launch direction.) It is weird to see a fast moving satellite moving the "wrong way". (We saw it several times, at an apparent magnitude in the range 5.7-6.7.) Clear and dark skies! Ed Light Lakewood, NJ, USA N 40.1072, W 074.2317, Hgt +21 m (69 ft) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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