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Satellite Identification Needed
"stella info" wrote in message m... I could give you an identification but then Larry would berate me for giving you a fish instead of a trawler. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will take out a second mortgage to buy a $20,000 bass boat and begin calling in "sick" for work. -- Stephen Home Page: stephmon.com Satellite Hunting: sathunt.com |
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Satellite Identification Needed
"DaveOesper" wrote in message
... Given an accurate location, position, and time (as seen through a telescope), is there a web site that will identify the satellite? We have the following unidentified satellite observation to report (on two CCD images using a 24-inch telescope): Location: Erwin W. Fick Observatory 42 00 20.3 N, 93 56 38.3 W, 333 m Position: RA(2000) = 01 23 43 DEC(2000) = -05 05 46 Time: 11/19/03, 3:47:40 UT (+/- 10 seconds) We estimate the angular speed of the unidentified object as approximately 20 arseconds per second of time. Any help in identifying this object would be most appreciated! The final stage of the Ariane rocket that launched the Sicral and Skynet 4F satellites in 2001, passed within 0.02 deg of the reported position, about 37 s prior to the reported time. Its angular velocity was 0.0061 deg/s, close to the 0.0056 deg/s reported. The object is 12 m in length and 2.6 m in diameter. These were its 2-line orbital elements nearest in epoch to the observation: 1 26696U 01005C 03322.81306861 .00001148 00000-0 10599-2 0 5400 2 26696 6.8533 246.8309 7216193 275.7122 13.5846 2.32429261 23062 At the time of the observation it was at a range of 22,031 km. Based upon its dimensions, range and illumination, tts predicted magnitude was about 11. Ted Molczan |
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"DaveOesper" wrote in message
... Given an accurate location, position, and time (as seen through a telescope), is there a web site that will identify the satellite? We have the following unidentified satellite observation to report (on two CCD images using a 24-inch telescope): Location: Erwin W. Fick Observatory 42 00 20.3 N, 93 56 38.3 W, 333 m Position: RA(2000) = 01 23 43 DEC(2000) = -05 05 46 Time: 11/19/03, 3:47:40 UT (+/- 10 seconds) We estimate the angular speed of the unidentified object as approximately 20 arseconds per second of time. Any help in identifying this object would be most appreciated! The final stage of the Ariane rocket that launched the Sicral and Skynet 4F satellites in 2001, passed within 0.02 deg of the reported position, about 37 s prior to the reported time. Its angular velocity was 0.0061 deg/s, close to the 0.0056 deg/s reported. The object is 12 m in length and 2.6 m in diameter. These were its 2-line orbital elements nearest in epoch to the observation: 1 26696U 01005C 03322.81306861 .00001148 00000-0 10599-2 0 5400 2 26696 6.8533 246.8309 7216193 275.7122 13.5846 2.32429261 23062 At the time of the observation it was at a range of 22,031 km. Based upon its dimensions, range and illumination, tts predicted magnitude was about 11. Ted Molczan |
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Satellite Identification Needed
Thank you Ted Molczan for making the identification, and to everyone else for
their helpful comments! I was also able to determine the identity by using the Project Pluto Guide 8 software (http://www.projectpluto.com/) and downloading and importing the (more or less) complete satellite orbital element set from Tony Beresford (http://home.iprimus.com.au/aberesford/alldat.zip). This is fun! Best Regards, David Oesper Ames, Iowa |
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Thank you Ted Molczan for making the identification, and to everyone else for
their helpful comments! I was also able to determine the identity by using the Project Pluto Guide 8 software (http://www.projectpluto.com/) and downloading and importing the (more or less) complete satellite orbital element set from Tony Beresford (http://home.iprimus.com.au/aberesford/alldat.zip). This is fun! Best Regards, David Oesper Ames, Iowa |
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stella info wrote:
I could give you an identification but then Larry would berate me for giving you a fish instead of a trawler. Ooops, it looks like I have become the newsgroup's net nanny :-) -- Larry Brash |
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Satellite Identification Needed
stella info wrote:
I could give you an identification but then Larry would berate me for giving you a fish instead of a trawler. Ooops, it looks like I have become the newsgroup's net nanny :-) -- Larry Brash |
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