Re: Bright Iridium Dummy Mass

J. Donald Gardner (fn470@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:08:46 -0400 (EDT)

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Reply to message from bjorn@tt-tech.se of Wed, 01 Oct
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>fn470@cleveland.freenet.edu (J. Donald Gardner, Jr.) wrote:
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>>Observed one of the Iridium Dummy Masses last evening (29 Sept; 
>>19:41 EDT, 23:41 UTC;  NORAD 24930; 97048F).

>When you repost an object being late or early - quote the Epoch
>of the elset you used (or the full elset) - not all SeeSat-ters
>use the same source at a given moment !

Thanks to those who responded by correctly identifying the bright
object as the Long March rocket.

This was the elset I was using:

DUMMY MASS DEB                                   474 x 169
1 24930U 97048F   97269.55736150  .00754326 -14791-5  39243-3 0   665
2 24930  86.3384 113.3673 0227399  71.5657 291.0206 15.83259255  3894

Cheers.


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