Re: Iridium 5 companion?
Bjoern Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:04:00 +0100
I wrote:
>Sean Sullivan (tssulliv@unix.amherst.edu) wrote in
>http://www2.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/sat/seesat/hyper/0064.html:
>>IRIDFLAR predicted a zero-magnitude flare of Iridium 5 at 4:57:45 EDT.
...
>>starfield, I picked up two moving objects.
>Using the day's elsets from Alan, it is found to be Iridium 37.
>Iridium 37 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 721 x 714 km
>1 24966U 97056B 97286.22527347 -.04411628 00000-0 -12141+1 0 468
>2 24966 86.4594 81.7327 0005119 45.6559 314.3335 14.52453137 2417
>The group is still climbing, with 14.44 < MM <15.04
You can see at my http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/iridium.htm
that I had the fortune of seeing and photographing an Iridium 7 glint
on Oct.5 as if it were a member of the 19/34-37 group ( just before
it started climbing ) The lower altitude (degrees!) of Irdm7 is because
it was at a higher elevation (km!) than the rest; thus further N, and
tilted slightly forward.
I will replace the SkyMap .gif charts with .jpg, which gets rid of
the strange colour conversion some program inflicts on my work.
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