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Is Nimbus 7 tumbling? by William R. Thompson
I watched Nimbus 7 make a pass over a week ago, and it seemed to brighten and fade, then brighten again before it entered Earth's shadow. I wasn't able to...
August 2nd 03 10:03 AM
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Is Nimbus 7 tumbling? by William R. Thompson
I just spotted Nimbus 7 (78098A) in clear skies. For most of the pass it was just visible in 10x50 binoculars, but about once every fifteen seconds it it...
May 5th 05 05:11 AM
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From sci.space.news: DART/MUBLCOM by William R. Thompson
This is excerpted from from "Jonathan's Space Report #547" as posted by Jacques van Oene on sci.space.news "Alarmingly, it now seems...
May 10th 05 07:33 AM
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FWD: Call for Moonwatchers by William R. Thompson
(Forwarded from sci.space.history) Allen Thomson wrote: The March 2004 AAS newsletter (American Astronomical Society) has the following letter in it: "Were...
March 23rd 04 02:26 AM
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NOAA 7 tumbling by William R. Thompson
Heavens-Above lists a new bit of debris from NOAA 7, which has shed debris before. The new bit of debris (1981-059J) appears to be from a recent event, given...
February 13th 04 05:04 PM
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Just an idle question on a cloudy night . . . by William R. Thompson
.. . . but let's admit it. How many of us have gone out to observe SeaSat, and as it makes its pass found ourselves saying "SeaSat . . . SeaSat run . . . run,...
January 17th 04 03:18 PM
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OAO 2 Breaking up? by William R. Thompson
I just watched OAO 2 (68110-A) make a pass. It was trailed by an object about one magnitude dimmer; neither satellite appeared to be tumbling. I watched them...
October 29th 03 04:16 AM
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Just saw TiPS by William R. Thompson
It's an awesome sight. I saw it about one hour before sunrise, using a six inch, f/8 reflector with an eyepiece that gives a half-degree field of view. The...
August 31st 03 01:53 PM
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DART launch scheduled for April 15th by William R. Thompson
This is excerpted from a post just made to sci.space.news. According to heavens-above.com, the MUBLCOM rendezvous target should be visible from North America...
March 26th 05 06:37 AM
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ISS and Space Shuttle by Winfield
Last night I had a chance to see an evening pass of ISS/Space Shuttle. Serendipity and a 15 minute heads-up was all it took on my part. "Heavens Above" web...
March 26th 08 12:17 AM
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Problems with syncing Heavens-Above channel on ActiveSync by XerXeS
Hello, I have recently experienced some problems related to syncing the Heavens-Above satellite predictions database on my PDA (Cassiopeia E-100 PsPC, WinCE...
March 8th 06 12:09 AM
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Do You Need Visitors by Yvon
"Are you Frustrated by the lack of traffic coming to your site?" Let's talk face to face! The reality is, even if it's true that at this very hour there exist...
May 26th 04 02:02 PM
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Do You Need Visitors by Yvon
"Are you Frustrated by the lack of traffic coming to your site?" Let's talk face to face! The reality is, even if it's true that at this very hour there exist...
May 26th 04 12:09 PM
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Do You Need Visitors by Yvon
"Are you Frustrated by the lack of traffic coming to your site?" Let's talk face to face! The reality is, even if it's true that at this very hour there exist...
May 26th 04 10:28 AM
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I think that Chinese people like dogs. I will appear in Jerusalem. Iam a hero. If you want to know what is "Armageddon", it is necessary to lookat the following. I am Isaac Newton. by [email protected]
"Cities of Babylon" refers to China. From January 2007 to 2008 in October on Radio Free Asia, I am forced China to become a country ruled by law, I half-way to...
January 7th 09 07:43 AM
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Home Planet satellite inaccuracies by Zachary Antolak
I have been using Home Planet (http://fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html) for a few days, and have noticed some inaccuracies with the satellite tracking....
October 7th 03 09:38 PM
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Strange sighting 9/04/06 by Zmbywoof
Hi, I just found found this site, after doing quite a few searches in the past few weeks trying to identify an object I saw. On 9/04/06 Shortly after 5am...
October 14th 06 04:57 AM
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Strange sighting 9/04/06 by Zmbywoof
Hi, I just found found this site, after doing quite a few searches in the past few weeks trying to identify an object I saw. On 9/04/06 Shortly after 5am...
October 14th 06 04:59 AM
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Help,Strange sighting by Zmbywoof
Hi, I just found found this site, after doing quite a few searches in the past few weeks trying to identify an object I saw. On 9/04/06 Shortly after 5am...
October 24th 06 02:37 PM
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