Tonight, 02-09-01, I observed from 5918 USA 129 apparantly on time on a star appulse at 19:12:27.0, but I couldn't recognize the narrow star split I timed 54.1 seconds earlier (8-(>) So, I tried 20:47 and found not one, but two, Sun-synchronous objects less than 4 degrees apart, the upper one very slowly catching up on the first. I got one split on the lower, which later turned out to be Envisat. And the upper left one was NOAA 17. At 20:28:54 they were intercepted by Cosmos 1703 r #16263 85108B USA 129 would have followed a minute later. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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