Re: the unid is a bird

From: ComHem (b.gimle@comhem.se)
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 08:34:54 EDT

  • Next message: Kevin Fetter: "Re: the unid is a bird"

    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
    >>
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