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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org 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 Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Nov 12 2015 - 13:43:03 UTC
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