At 12:39 25/09/00 +0100, you wrote: >On 20/9/00 at 19:52 UTC I observed Spot 1 r AA, a piece of what I assume is >the third stage of an Ariane 1 rocket used to launch the Spot 1 and Viking >satellites into orbit. Upon investigation I find that this is one of the larger >of 46 catalogued pieces of debris for this rocket. >Does any body know what happened to this rocket or could point me to where I can >find out more info. Hello Mike, This object has been in the BWGS(Belgian Working Group Satellites) flash program for a long time in the beginning of the nineties. It is large fragment from an Ariane rocket which has exploded in orbit. I managed to make a photograph of it on March 26, 1993. For a long time, this photograph has been an unknown to me untill recently it has been identified by Rainer Kracht. Have a look at: http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/images/inter.htm and look for 86019aa.jpg Greetings, Tristan Cools tcools@village.uunet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1 Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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