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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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