The Earth-Orbiting Space Junk Tracking Page

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 00:55:29 EST

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    This site provides data on six far-away objects that might 
be seen in big scopes and mistaken for something else.  
(Except that I would think that SOHO is always between us 
and the Sun and so not observable.  But maybe its orbit 
around the L-point allows it to get to a large enough 
elongation to be visually observable sometimes?)  The 
title seems a bit of a misnomer since it includes SOHO, 
and of course it's really for NEO-hunters, but anyway,
it's "The Earth-Orbiting Space Junk Tracking Page" --

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/SpaceJunk/SpaceJunk.html

Regarding the Nimiqs, someone wrote privately to say that 
there was a brief anomaly with Nimiq 2 and that it's being 
checked out more and that Nimiq 1 is the operational one 
at the moment.  Nimiq 1 has been quite a bit fainter than 
Galaxy 11 every time I've seen them together in Mike's 
telescope.  (I have seen Galaxy 11 a number of times with 
binoculars but never Nimiq 1.)  I wonder how Nimiq 2 
compares optically to N1.

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

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