For anyone who might want to try to ID one. It's from the newsgroup. The thread is "Satellite ID help requested...". There is an astrophoto with a track here: http://home.att.net/~astropix/Dan_s_Satellite.html The particulars are: > The bright star in the center, showing some 'blooming' > artifacts is 52 Cyg... the trail is just to the left > and inclined about 15 degrees to the framing of the > shot. The image was taken in Chiefland FL, on 11/7/02 > at 4:42:03 UT. Lat/Lon for Chiefland is: 29.4750° N, > 82.8600° W... Celestial coordinates for 52 Cyg are: > (epoch 2K) 20 45 39.75/+30 43 11.0... Further discussion established that the given time is probably the beginning of the 15-minute exposure. Also, > we sent the image to the IAU (the clearing house for > comets/meteors) :::first::: They couldn't tell us what > it was... but they could tell us what it wasn't - a > rock. A close asteroid tumbling at the rate evidenced > by the image would be in a very unstable orbit... and > have *everyones* attention. The object is either a > satellite or orbital debris... Cloudy here. 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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