Re: Very bright, very slow

From: Mike McCants (mmccants@io.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2008 - 15:36:43 UTC

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    Bjorn posted:
    
    >Including ESA and classfd TLE I find one object remarkably
    >close in declination, reaching this position 879 s later:
    >Unknown 051201  #90043 05835A
    
    This is also matched by ESA object UI007.
    
    >But I'm puzzled by ObsReduce's time error - from
    >my SkyMap predictions I'd say the object is 18.5m early!
    
    This object has been under longitude control for many years.
    
    There is a chance that it is now being moved from the previous
    longitude location to a new location.
    
    The last observation of 90043 was 22 days before this observation.
    So the mean motion change might be only 1 or 2 minutes per day.
    
    It has recently been proposed that this is object 26635, 2000-080A.
    
    Mike McCants
    
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