Re: object still near the ISS

From: Patrick Schmeer via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:07:43 +0000 (UTC)
 Could it be an unexpectedly bright CubeSat?
 
Btw, Cygnus NG-12 (2019-071A, #44701) departed from the
ISS on January 31 and is still in orbit (but not near the ISS).
 
Regards,
Patrick
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     Am Montag, 24. Februar 2020, 15:51:01 MEZ hat C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
 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
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