Tony Beresford wrote: > >Hugh probably means this tle: > > > >1 90012U 02241.91170978 0.00001900 00000-0 24605-2 0 05 > >2 90012 28.2935 137.0946 7252000 297.2301 62.7629 2.26960260 08 > > > > > >Does anyone have more information ? > Its an extra fairing associateed with the MDS launch, agreed > that > was noticed flashing By Ron Welch of Canberra. I picked it up > (in binoculars )a couple of nights as well at the time. The > origin was I think proposed by Ted Molczan. It hasnt made it > to the catalog yet apparently, or as it Ted, Mike? Tony Beresford That was another nice find, which was not discussed on SeeSat-L at the time because it is debris from a secret object: 88077A piece 1 90011U 02624A 02130.20892050 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00 2 90011 27.6533 351.6660 7305018 12.9232 347.7552 2.00828262 02 Despite its range of nearly 40,000 km, the object was observed to flash to around mag 2 to 3. Its flash period was 35.72 s. It is debris from the Transtage failure of 88077A aka USA 31, or Chalet 5 or Vortex 5. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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