At 02:51 20/03/06, Mike McCants wrote: >Object 68-14B showed up yesterday as an elset that was not >in my file of all tles. Object 68-14A is OGO 5. Object 68 14B >is its Agena rocket upper stage. Both objects have an orbital >period of a little over 2 1/2 days. The last previous elset for >68-14B was in 1970. > >Object 68-14B (NCat 03145) is currently making perigee passes >over the northern hemisphere every few days at a height of >about 22000 miles. I would guess that its magnitude near >perigee will be about 12th magnitude, but it could be a little >brighter or fainter. Mike and others, note the observations and derived orbit in Bill Gray's assorted MPEC's http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/mpecs/5x5e564.htm I think this is #3145 /68-14B Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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