The debris object is in a significantly lower orbit than ISS and passed the Space Station around the time that Ulhas Deshpande saw them together. He is probably quite right about the smaller object being in front. The debris item is something that was lost overboard during last week's EVA activity to add the S-1 Truss (I think someone mentioned it in a message). I don't have the original elsets for it so can't tell how fast it was originally drifting away from the Station. It may well have completed one more circuit of the Earth than the ISS in the time since it "escaped", and Ulhas saw it catching up and overtaking. On 20 Oct 2002 at 23:45, Ed Cannon wrote: > Here are Quicksat predictions. They have the debris > object exactly one minute later than the (to the best of > my knowledge) invalid Progress prediction_____________________________ Robert Christy bob@zarya.info www.zarya.info _____________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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