RE: CB Obs May 20, 2012

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Sun May 20 2012 - 02:04:48 UTC

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    Cees Bassa wrote:
    
    > While waiting for USA 161 I caught the following object.
    > 99999 99 999U   9999 F 20120520002919200 17 25 0036003+423633 37 R
    > 99999 99 999U   9999 F 20120520002926794 17 25 0049193+432196 37 R
    > 99999 99 999U   9999 F 20120520002930313 17 25 0055236+434026 37 R
    > 99999 99 999U   9999 F 20120520002934553 17 25 0102424+435972 37 R
    > 
    > Initially I thought this was USA 161 running 20 minutes early, but it
    > appeared on time and on track to the latest elset, which means this is
    > something else. This object was varying in brightness; as it passed my
    > field-of-view it showed 3 maxima about 8s apart.
    
    This appears to be IGS-OVS (07005B / 30587), last reported in August 2010. Here are approximate elements:
    
    1 70000U          12141.00934547  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    01
    2 70000  97.3417 268.7539 0010000   0.0398   0.0848 15.40490678    05
    
    07005B's operational mean motion was maintained close to 15.2593 rev/d, so the present elements suggest it may be
    defunct.
    
    Ted Molczan
    
    
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