Robert Sheaffer said: >"Superbird 1" (89041 A, NORAD # 20040), a Japanese communications >satellite that is now drifting freely in the Geosynchronous Graveyard, >where old geosynchronous satellites are sent to die when they run out of >fuel. It has an orbital inclination of 4.73 degrees, and it is >drifting westward at approximately 1.9 degrees per day. Thus it is >not strictly geosynchronous, but nearly so. >Superbird 1 now over the mid-Pacific. Each day, it draws a little farther >from us, and by October 20 we will lose sight of it. Could not that Superbird become also a "Superstar" for us, European, end of next december ? My pleasure, avec plaisir, Alphonse alphonse.pouplier@ping.be http://www.ping.be/~ping5861 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ALPHONSE Main coord.:+50d25m27s 4d51m42s East phone: ..32 81 460122 Aux. coord.:+43d44m19s 5d58m12s East phone: ..33 92 771407