Hodgepodge

Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 04:53:37 -0600

I failed to see TRMM (25063, 97-74A) on a so-so predicted pass 
(+3.0 with Quicksat intrinsic mag. of +2.8; less than 160 km 
above Earth's shadow at culmination).

HST (20580, 90-37B) crossed with ERBS (15354, 84-108B), which I 
could just barely see, at about 1:53:24-25 UTC 25 March; then
HST brightened to -1.5 at about 1:54:04, which was pretty low
in the ESE.

Soon after I saw ETS-7 (25064, 97-74B), clouds started moving in.

Here's the URL of a report that Japan would be maneuvering COMETS 
(a.k.a. Kakehashi):

  http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9803/05/japan.satellite/index.html

COMETS is a fairly big object (2x3x3 m with 15 m solar panel).

Here's the URL of the new OIG Web site!

  http://oigsysop.atsc.allied.com/scripts/foxweb.dll/app01?

(The old one's still there.)

Here's the URL of NASA's "Satellite Situation Center":

  http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/

which may have some things of interest to some SeeSat folks.

Now, I couldn't find it, but it seems like a few weeks ago 
there was mention of Geotail (22049, 92-44A).  The SSR reports 
that it decayed in October 1992.  Well, the following and 
related pages say it was in orbit at least until sometime in 
1995, if not to the present day:

  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/database/www-nmc?92-044A

Ed Cannon
ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Austin, Texas, USA