Dear SeeSat members, The explosion photographed last night by Gordon Garradd and others in Australia (see http://spaceweather.com for several photos) has been tentatively identified by Jon P. Boers of the Air Force Space Surveillance System as object 28944, a Breeze-M rocket body blowing up. Later, he says, "on the other side of the world, our RADAR saw 500+ pieces in that orbit." --Tony At 07:05 AM 2/20/2007, Tony Beresford wrote: >At 11:53 PM 20/02/2007, Greg Roberts wrote: >>This was forwarded to me for comment- I havent >>looked into it yet but it might just be of interest to others. >> >>Transfer burn perhaps? >> >>Cheers >>Greg >Imaged by Gordon GARRADD at Siding Spring and a couple of images >up on his website at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/themis.htm > >The only available TLE for the THEMIS launch puts with a eccentric orbit puts >it below Siding Spring Obs. horizon at 17:15 UT. The orbit is close to the >one desired so so I think one can say its not that. >Rob McNaught imaged it as well from SSO, so one may be able to get >enough positions >to get an approximate orbit. >Tony Beresford > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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