AW: Bright and low satellite

From: Arnold Barmettler (barmettler@calsky.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 17:49:08 UTC

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    Hi Leo,
    
    you have observed the satellite 2007-049C, a part of the Cosmos 2430 launch.
    
    Here you can get a list of soon decaying satellites for Pieksämäki and
    yesterday:
    http://www.calsky.com/?decayer=&sub=1&time=0&date=19.2.2008&lon=27.1602&lat=
    62.2999
    
    SatEvo predicts its decay for 25th February.
    
    Best regards
    Arnold 
    
    
    > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
    > Von: Leo Wikholm [mailto:leo.wikholm@wippies.fi]
    > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 18:26
    > An: seesat-l@satobs.org
    > Betreff: Bright and low satellite
    > 
    > We have observed a bright and low orbit satellite on Feb 19, 2008.
    > The phenomenon was observed by two meteor cameras. The main camera was
    > located in
    > Helsinki (60.10N, 25E) and the second camera was in Pieksämäki (near
    > 62.20N 27.1E).
    > The observation was made at 16:49 UTC.
    > 
    > According to observations of these two cameras the length of the trail
    > is about 33 seconds.
    > The object was located near 205 km height and the inclination was about
    > 62,9 degrees.
    > You can preview this picture at
    > http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20080219165000ag7.jpg
    > 
    > Observation was calculated by two Finnish amateurs Esko Lyytinen
    > (Helsinki site) and
    > Timo Kantola (Pieksämäki site).
    > 
    > Best regards,
    > 
    > Leo Wikholm
    > 
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