jrespler@superlink.net (JAY RESPLER) writes: > Anticipating that they would not be too far > apart since it was not that long since they separated, Focusing on "since it was not that long since they separated", I don't want to read too much into a single phrase, so I ask: Are you inferring that you don't place much credibility in the prospective elsets which I mentioned in a previous messge were available a few days ago at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/elements/ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/SHUTTLE/SVPOST.html ? Those elsets were updated at least once and, as it turned out, at least according to elsets received from the STS-TLE mailing list and David Cottle's TLE mailing list, the older prospective elsets were more successful in predicting the separation of the craft than the updates. But both prospective sets, munged to use the previous STS elset as a proxy for the ISS, did successfully predict the character of the pass, namely 2 separate objects, and also the rough separation of them, namely a few seconds, with STS-101 leading ISS. Curious that Altantis is reported fainter. On one side, it has a very dark surface. Cheers. Walter Nissen wnissen@tfn.net -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- Think you're an expert on what happened during the 20th-Century? Try answering these simple questions. How long would a moment-of-silence last, if it lasted 1 second for each American lost in World War II? Each member of the Allied forces? Each member of the Armed Forces of your nation? Each human being? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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