FWIW, there's a photo of an early Syncom satellite at this location: http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~dglover/sat/syncom.html In the photo it's being worked on by two people, and it's a dark cylinder apparently one meter or less in diameter and maybe one-half meter in length. It weighed 39 km. This seems to me to be an object that SpaceCom should be able to track. Maybe the misfire of the apogee motor sent it into an eccentric orbit that eventually was fatally perturbed by the Moon and Sun? It looks to be clear here tonight! First clear weekend night since six weeks ago. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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