Nice post except for the opinion at the end which should have been left out. It seems likely that this "close encounter" had been planned quite a while in advanced, probably prior to Trump taking office. So far he's let the military do what they think best and there's no evidence to the contrary here. Bill > On Jun 7, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Ted already presented his analytical results on the close approach of USA 276 to > the ISS on June 3. I have now put up my results too, updated today with more > visualisations: > > https://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2017/06/close-encounters-of-classified-kinda.html > > Note the diagrams which I added today, showing the "circling" of the ISS both > cross-track and along-track. > > I find a slightly larger nominal approach distance than Ted does: 6.4 +- 2 km > (Ted found 4.4 km). That is stil quite close (and much closer than in initial > prognosis, which were based on a projected ISS orbit). It remained just outside > the 4 x 4 x 10 km safety box around ISS (this is also visualized in the blog post). > > - Marco > > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. > e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org > > Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > Cospar 4355 (Cronesteyn): 52.13878 N, 4.49937 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek > ----- > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Wed Jun 07 2017 - 17:34:31 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Wed Jun 21 2017 - 20:09:14 UTC