SATOBS ML (remote), 12 Nov 2015: WT1190F impactor (with image URL)

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:42:53 +0100
WT1190F:
00000 00 000X   8438 G 20151112111530367 17 75 0644399+052611 56 S+181 10
00000 00 000X   8438 G 20151112112530184 17 75 0644397+052689 56 S+182 10
00000 00 000X   8438 G 20151112113530259 17 75 0644395+052764 56 S+186 10

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0.61-meter F/10 Cassegrain + CCD + Astrometrica software + UCAC4
Sierra Stars Obs. (MPC G68), Markleeberg, California, USA,
38.8108 N, 119.7750 W, 1545 m
What these numbers mean: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html
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Within a few hours from now, on Friday 13 November near 06:18 UT, object WT1190F 
discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey will impact just south of Sri Lanka.

This object is artificial: it is in a geocentered orbit in the earth-Moon system 
with apogee at twice the Lunar distance. It is probably 1-2 meter large and 
evidently hardware from some, as yet unidientified Lunar mission.

I imaged it a few hours ago with the 0.61-m telescope of MPC G68 Sierra Stars 
Observatory in California. An animated GIF of the images can be seen here:

http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2015/11/small-unusual-artificial-object-wt1190f.html

The positions reported here are of course academic (with respect to this list at 
least).

Same positions in MPC format:

WT1190F       C2015 11 12.46910 06 44 39.91 +05 15 40.1          18.1 R      G68
WT1190F       C2015 11 12.47604 06 44 39.70 +05 16 08.1          18.2 R      G68
WT1190F       C2015 11 12.48299 06 44 39.50 +05 16 35.2          18.6 R      G68

- Marco


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Dr Marco Langbroek  -  SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Cospar 4353 (Leiden):   52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL
Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL
SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html
Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com
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