Re: Long period satellites

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 16:42:23 EDT

  • Next message: Ted Molczan: "TJM obs of 2002 Sep 05 UTC"

    In a message dated Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:11:33 +0100, mike.waterman@web-hq.com writes:
    
    > The Ariane rocket that launched XMM has a similar large
    > eccentric orbit to XMM (period 2603min), and is quite easy
    > to see. But for each observer chances to see it occur about
    > once every 9 days for a few months each year.
    > Absolute mag is about 4 or 5: I saw it mag 6.5 last year, 
    > and it is currently visible in the N hemisphere. 
    
    
    ARIANE 5 R/B
    1 25990U 99066B   02246.54166667 +.00000000 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 04164
    2 25990 047.0393 144.4794 7938659 142.8073 000.2368 00.55307380001447
    
    At my location (Baltimore-Washington) the next pass is around
    23:50 local time on 6 September (~03:50 UTC 7 September),
    peaking at about 41 deg el in the WSW.  For an object with a
    mm of .553 it's moving at a pretty good clip - about 4 deg of
    azimuth per minute.
    
    Cheers,
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    http://www.howardastro.org/
    
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