Op 24-2-2020 om 15:50 schreef C. Bassa: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 3:37 PM Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l > <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: >> Anyone any idea what this object is? There does not appear to be an obvious >> candidate, other than one of the recently released cubesats, which however are >> very small. > > It's curious and confusing. For some reason the latest spacetrack.org > catalogs still include Soyuz MS-13 [44437/19041A], despite having 18 > day old elements, as the mission landed on February 6. Yet, no other > object in the spacetrack.org catalog is as close to ISS. > > Regards, > Cees I wonder whether it is CRYOCUBE (misnamed CYROCUBE in the Space-track catalogue), 45258U 98-067RB. That one has a 45 x 45 cm sunscreen on both sides. Orbital elements do not currently put it this close to the ISS though. But as it was released from ISS only a few days ago together with a bunch of other objects, maybe orbital determination is iffy for the moment. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Feb 24 2020 - 09:04:51 UTC
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