FWIW, here are the positions I obtained by playing the video at half speed, and trying to stop and read the time at star splits and 90-degree splits. I don't know a way to extract stills from a .wmv A circular orbit fit gives ~505 km altitude, in shadow! Slightly better is 91720 Kevin 1 91720U 07649A 07149.18217032 .00000000 00000-0 00000+0 0 04 2 91720 48.4909 186.6839 0027394 130.3435 229.3921 15.22517431 01 but I found none with higher eccentiricity. 9987=Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W 91720 07 680A 9987 F 20070529043916150 17 25 1619848+201339 48 S 91720 07 680A 9987 F 20070529043919720 17 25 1630277+211931 38 S 91720 07 680A 9987 F 20070529043922730 17 25 1639320+220810 67 S 91720 07 680A 9987 F 20070529043923430 17 25 1641690+222076 48 S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Björn Gimle (ComHem)" <b.gimle@comhem.se> To: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com>; <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:48 PM Subject: Re: the unid is a bird >I am about to come to same conclusion. > You made this movie near local midnight, and > Cosmos 1140 is exiting shadow in the vicinity > at 783 km, and your bird is moving at 1.74* > faster angular speed. > Thus it is not even likely that an excentic > orbit with perigee speed ~30% higher > would clear the Earth's shadow. > > Too bad! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com> > To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:45 AM > Subject: the unid is a bird > > >> After replaying the video a couple of time again, I have come to the >> conculsion, what I observed >> was a bird. >> >> So no need for me, to attempt to measure positions, which would have beem >> difficult. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk >> email >> the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at >> http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >> http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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