Christian Kjærnet wrote: > 1) Except for a couple of the debris objects, the inclinations of the debris > haven't changed much. That would indicate that the target satellite was hit > by a coplanar ASAT object, which would be the easiest trajectory anyway in > order to make a hit. Probably the ASAT object came from below and behind > with (much?) greater speed than the target. It did not come from behind, but instead smacked it nearly head-on, coming from the opposite direction as the target. > 5) I don't know the answer to the question whether the target satellite was > hit at perigee; It happened at 22:26 UTC (11 Jan), some 11 minutes before perigee passage, but the difference is a mere 7 km in altitude. See also: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/aw012207p2.xml - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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