Re: Hello there

Tony Beresford (starman@camtech.net.au)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:13:42 +0900

At 21:21 25/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>
>One notable exception was a satellite I used to see regularly in the early
>1970's.  I would usually find this satellite by chance when I would look up
>and see a star, of approximately 0 magnitude, where there shouldn't be one.
>After the excitement of thinking I might be seeing a nova I would notice
>that the "star" was very slowly moving -- obviously a satellite.
Robert,
You are referring to the balloon satellite pageos, #2253 1966-56 A.
It is no longer in orbit. in 1975 or 6, it was torn into pieces, and 
all the pieces have decayed by now. I am sending by separate mail
some elements for it for 1970, so you can run your tracking
software on them. These came from the historical elements
Mike McCants has on his web site.
Tony Beresford