Re: Satellite ID help requested...

From: Tony Beresford (aberesford@iprimus.com.au)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 18:59:19 EST

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At 09:53 28/11/02, Michael McCants wrote:
>The trail is apparently about 5 arc minutes long in a
>southwest/northeast direction.
>
>Assuming that this trail represents motion over a 15 minute time
>span, I can fit a circular orbit to a trail like this.  The
>inclination would be about 60 degrees and the orbital period
>would be about 40 days. 

In case anybody is wondering this cant be J002E3 object. 
This object was measured to be at 03h 22min, dec +30 november 7, 06UT,2002
over 7 hours of RA east of 52 Cygni. 
Tony Beresford



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