Obs 960505 and 96-17 A+B

Leo Barhorst (leobarhorst@pi.net)
Tue, 7 May 96 19:20:52 PDT

81- 84 B 96-05-05 21:04:12   LB  116.4 1     2 58     MM, mag 5->7
83- 42 B 96-05-05 21:08:28   LB  109.1 1     2 55     MM, mag 5->inv
86- 19 C 96-05-05 20:30:23   LB   24.2 0.2  20  1.21  FF, mag 6->inv
88- 23 B 96-05-05 20:37:37   LB   72.7 0.5   4 18.2   AA, mag 6->inv
88- 50 A 96-05-05 20:53:25   LB   72.0 0.2  10  7.20  AA, mag 4->6
88-102 A 96-05-05 20:56:28   LB   75.9 0.5   6 12.6   AA, mag 5->6
89- 16 A 96-05-05 21:22:23   LB   62.0 0.5   8  7.8   AA, mag 5->7
89- 28 B 96-05-05 21:52:18   LB  134.1 0.5  10 13.4   AA, mag 4->inv
90- 81 K 96-05-05 20:42:27   LB  151.6 0.5   4 37.9   AA, mag 5->inv
91- 81 B 96-05-05 22:00:06   LB   91.1 2     1 91     AA, mag 4->6
92- 93 B 96-05-05 21:12      LB                       S, mag 3
93- 20 B 96-05-05 21:55      LB                       S, mag 6
94- 74 B 96-05-05 20:21:31   LB  100.9 0.5  10 10.1   AA, mag 3->7
96- 17 A 96-05-05 21:47      LB                       almost S, mag 6
96- 17 B 96-05-05 21:45      LB                       S, mag 5

When I made the observation of what I thought was 91-17 B it showed 
up early. So after following it for a while I looked back along the
track and saw another object in the same orbit that was almost S,
mag 6. 
Later on I used Skymap and put in the TLE's of 96-17 A and B. Skymap
nicely showed an almost perfect match of the observed trajectories
with B coming along first, followed about 2 minutes later by A.
So my first guess that the second object was B proved to be wrong!
Skymap is a great program.


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Name: Leo Barhorst    Alkmaar (Neth) 
52 deg 38 min N      4 deg  47 min E     2 m ASL
E-mail: leobarhorst@pi.net   also a member of Seesat-L
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