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 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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