Report time: 14:30 UTC After a period of silence SCC has now updated its catalogue. Also the "mountain" announced two decay candidates 2003-035C and 2003-035D with predictions but very peculiar - without TLEs. 2003-035A #27856 - Cosmos 2399 - launched on August 12, 2003 is a military imaging satellite of the DON type releasing from time to time capsules. But now we have 5 fresh pieces of "debris" in orbit 2003-035C - 2003-035G (#28084 - 28088) - so far as I can remember - unusual for this type of satellite. 2003-035C and 2003-035D have very little RCS values: 0.04 and 0.07. It is remarkable that the SCC issued decay predictions for these "small" objects. Is there something wrong with the main object - with Cosmos 2399? It would interesting to watch for the orientation of the satellite.... Harro Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de Berlin, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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