This one is from the satellites.visual-observe newsgroup: >On December 1st, 22h23 UT, I observed a satellite re-entry >over Belgium. The observations were made while driving a >car so are not very accurate. > >About 10 objects of about magnitude 2 moved slowly from >about south to about north. > >Does anybody have a clue to which satellite this may have >been? Strangely, the same object, 26990, seems possibly to be a match. I wonder if it was fragmented pieces from the launch going over very low, perhaps heating up, but not yet re-entering. With the one launched October 13, 2000 (00-063...), along with "D", the platform, there were "E" and "F", R/B (1) and (2). We don't seem to have any elements for anything like that yet on this one. Change topic. There was a TV documentary called "Spies in the Sky" where Geoff Chester, a SeeSat-er, appeared in one segment, talking about downloading weather satellite images directly from a satellite passing overhead. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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