Only complementing my last post, the images below show the projected path of the probe for Umuarama: - *http://tinyurl.com/c2o78qh - **http://tinyurl.com/cdk6jvr Regards Carlos Bella* 2011/11/9 Carlos Bella <carlos.apodman@gmail.com> > Here in Brazil some observers reported that they observed the probe in > the "illuminated phase" of the expected path. > > But one of my colleagues (called Heverton) that lives in the city of > Umuarama of state of Paraná (south of Brazil - * > http://tinyurl.com/umuarama* ), makes a report at 23:00 (UT) that saw two > objects in the orbit, in the own words: > * > "I saw, but I found odd. First I saw a point a little slow, but I think it was > the ISS. Then I saw Phobos and right behind it a point with a light a little > weaker. I think it was the remains of the rocket?? > If my eyes not deceived me, I saw the light getting a little stronger at > the estimated time of ignition. Too bad I can do any record"* > > I asked more accurate details about the observation and today he wrote: > * > "Accurately I can not say anything, but I saw it from about 20:55:30 and > 20:57:00 (22:55:30 and 22:57:00 UT) . The brightness of the probe was greater > than the ISS shines normally, but much less bright than it was Jupiter. > The position, the best I can remember I tried to sketch with the help of > Stellarium*:" > > - http://twitpic.com/7cczec/full > > > Regards > Carlos Bella > > > 2011/11/8 Ted Molczan <ssl3molcz@rogers.com> > >> I have just received word from the project that there seems to be a >> serious problem. >> >> After the planned first burn of the engine, the spacecraft was not found >> in the predicted orbit. Alternative radar >> observations preliminarily show that there are two objects in the orbit >> with parameters the same as before the planned >> engine burn. Observers are requested to attempt to discover the >> spacecraft in the initial LEO parking orbit. >> >> This is the official pre-launch estimated TLE of the LEO parking orbit: >> >> 1 55500U 11000A 11312.95486111 -.00010748 00000-0 -11606-4 0 14 >> 2 55500 51.4279 0.6058 0106375 25.7555 298.8256 15.98414689 33 >> >> I imagine that one of the two objects seen on the radar could be the >> final stage of the booster. Accurate descriptions >> and counts of the number of objects seen, as well as position and time >> would be useful. >> >> Ted Molczan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111109/13944d38/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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