Two nights ago, thanks to Ted's excellent orbit from Greg's observations, I was able to observe the "unknown" Breeze debris. I was surprised to find it relatively bright, standard mag +3.4 according to Greg's obs. Furthermore, I could not detect any variation during 30 minutes of observation. Subjectively, it became fainter, though it was getting closer, (from about 13000 km) but this could be because it was approching the light blue north. At about 23:25:46 UTC it met a satellite moving in a DIR about 45 degrees from the vertical, which I ID'ed as #13845 NOSS 4 (F) ld 83008F At that time I decided to restart my voice recorder, to make it easier to find the comments on this UNID. I then noticed that my recorder showed 00:00 recording, and no battery power, although the recording light was on! As it didn't respond to the on/off key either, I decided to make notes and drawings for the rest, but failed to write down my magnitude estimate, and the first three obs, one of which was intended to be the reference for time offset, to aid the rest of the star ID's. I had a hard time reconciling my notes and the star fields in ObsReduce. SkyMap didn't help either, as it often does. Fortunately, Ted helped there too, validating the majority of observations! I agree with his refined orbit, but there is one difference in our obs reductions. I include the first three obs from rough memory only: 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516232121390 17 25 1720250+460327 68 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516232151720 17 25 1723531+455408 68 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516232546670 17 25 1740716+451344 69 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516232635580 17 25 1743924+450147 87 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516232635580 17 25 1744127+450304 67 S Ted 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516233919080 17 25 1848923+403169 97 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516233919080 17 25 1848923+403169 97 S Ted 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516234419960 17 25 1914768+374294 37 S Ted 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516234419960 17 25 1914768+374294 47 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516235014670 17 25 1945257+333453 57 S 91117 07 631A 5919 G 20070516235014670 17 25 1945257+333453 57 S Ted -- Björn Gimle -- -- COSPAR 5918 WGS84, +18.10127 (E), +59.29813 (N), 44 m -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, +18.6206 (E), +59.2615 (N), 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5920, FRUVIK,+18.4820 (E), +59.3260 (N), 11 m -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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