Re: 90108 - Low Perigee High Apogee Object

From: wkitty42--- via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:18:40 -0400
On 09/06/2018 06:32 PM, Charles Phillips via Seesat-l wrote:
> wkitty42 el al -
> 
> Thanks for any observations you can contribute, I am working with a local
> amateur astronomer to begin taking observations here as well. Of course I
> live in one of the worst places in the world for optical observing - we have
> humidity, light pollution, haze, particulates, etc etc.

i doubt that i'll be able to offer much... all i have is naked Mark I 
eyeballs... not even a decent set of binocs... putting the TLEs into Stellarium 
gives me a better idea of where it is so i can try to look at it... 
unfortunately, it is below my Eastern horizon at this time...

i will say that i was surprised, yesterday... i did catch 90108 in Stellarium 
when it topped out and its range rate was 0.000 km/s... i missed exactly what 
time that was because i was trying to make sure i got the screen shot, too... a 
few hours later i was looking at it again and wow... i hadn't realized the 
orbits went that quickly... it was already almost bottomed out and about to head 
back up again... it was still (or again?) below my horizon, though...

i received a more recent set of guesswork TLEs for the object... i'll have to 
get them into my processing so they're available for my update mechanisms to 
pull and use... then maybe i can see what happens from there... but seriously, 
don't look for much from my side... my life is in a bit of a shamble right now 
after finding my 84yo father (R.I.P.) when i came home from town a few weeks ago...


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