[vsnet-chat 1790] (fwd) Re: (fwd) object identification request

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:15:36 -0500 (EST)
From: george wm turner <turner@astro.indiana.edu>
To: vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
cc: rwb0006@jove.acs.unt.edu
Subject: [vsnet-chat 0] Re: (fwd) object identification request


not all satellites are listed there;  

the military (U.S. Space Command; i.e. the old NORAD) 
does not publish all the orbital elements; and, since 
the Kosovo situation started, they've pulled some satellite 
elements that they used to publish.

the iridium flares can also calculated at this
website; they're low altitude orbiters and will move.

george wm turner
astronommy, indiana university

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Hitoshi YAMAOKA wrote:

> This topic would be preferable for vsnet-chat, not vsnet-obs.
> 
> >    The obvious lack of apparent motion is consistent with a high orbit
> >(if not geosyncronous).  I expect some expert on satellite identifications
> >can provide an identification.  
> 
> I am not an expert about satellite, but nice identifier on WWW:
> 
> http://vsnet2.gsoc.dlr.de/satvis
> 
> tells that, if the observer was on Denton, Texas (33.2150N, 97.1330W),
> no satellite brighter than 4.5 magnitude was able to be seen between
> Apr. 15 22:25 CDT and Apr. 16 04:47 CDT.
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan
> yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
>

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