Re: Bright Iridium Dummy Mass
Bjoern Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Wed, 01 Oct 1997 09:49:08 +0100
fn470@cleveland.freenet.edu (J. Donald Gardner, Jr.) wrote:
>Observed one of the Iridium Dummy Masses last evening (29 Sept;
>19:41 EDT, 23:41 UTC; NORAD 24930; 97048F).
>
>It was 2 minutes earlier than predicted and fairly bright - about a
>0 Mag (as bright as Vega). It was also moving very quickly
...
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 !
The Dummy Masses are in high stable orbits. OIG identifies the F object
as Debris, but SeeSat-L observers agree it is the rocket
(exchange the names for C/F):
DUMMY MASS 1
1 24925U 97048A 97272.13274870 +.00000101 +00000-0 +96304-5 0 00539
2 24925 086.3336 113.7727 0004559 226.7692 133.3150 14.80571623004083
DUMMY MASS 2
1 24926U 97048B 97272.13633635 +.00000102 +00000-0 +98839-5 0 01074
2 24926 086.3336 113.7753 0005546 223.2055 136.8732 14.80378433004083
CZ-2C/SD R/B
1 24927U 97048C 97272.03670345 .00205577 94686-5 60870-3 0 525
2 24927 86.2263 111.9777 0250307 51.8641 310.5336 15.57036586 4256
DUMMY MASS DEB
1 24930U 97048F 97272.58522335 .01132894 -14369-5 50672-3 0 740
2 24930 86.3366 111.7350 0204638 59.4101 302.7108 15.89696774 4370
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