Earlier tonight from the Ney Museum site (30.307N, 97.727W, 150m) I was looking at northern Libra, at about RA 15:10, Dec -5, without binoculars, when I realized that there was an extra +2.0 star northwest of beta Librae. This was at about 04:30:57 May 26 UTC. After a minute or two it faded, but it was still visible with my 8x42 binocular at about +6.0. I got a couple of positions about 12 minutes apart, and both match well with Express AM-11 (28234, 04-015A). On March 30 Kevin Fetter sent a link to a story about the sudden failure of this satellite and it being maneuvered to a graveyard orbit: http://satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2006/0277.html Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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