At 21:03 2/12/01, you wrote: >Hi all > >I have attached an e-mail sent to my local Astronomy group relating to a >possible fireball seen from my location at 22:30 UTC on the 1 Dec 2001. >.... Could this have been 26990 01 53D , the sl-12 rocket from the glosnass launch Well according the penultimate elset 26990 was in range of Poole around 22:30. Here is Quicksat output for Poole, with sun illumination ignored 50.700 2.000 200. Poole 2000 10.0 10 F T T F T *** 2001 Dec 1 Sat evening *** Times are PM UT *** 1712 641 H M S Tim Al Azi C Dir Mag Dys F Hgt Shd Rng EW Phs R A Dec 26990 SL-12 R/B 22 32 15 .0 12 197 309 20.6 0 2 156**** 632 1.8 61 154 -26.2 22 32 30 .0 15 193 306 19.9 0 2 156**** 530 2.1 56 215 -23.7 22 32 46 .0 19 186 303 19.1 0 2 156**** 435 2.6 49 244 -20.0 22 33 1 .0 25 175 298 18.3 0 2 157**** 351 3.1 39 327 -14.2 22 33 16 .0 32 157 288 17.7 0 2 157**** 288 3.6 27 427 -5.1 22 33 31 .0 36 129 C 271 17.4 0 2 157**** 263 3.2 23 547 7.4 22 33 46 .0 33 100 254 17.7 0 2 157**** 284 2.2 37 713 18.8 22 34 1 .0 26 81 243 18.4 0 2 157**** 343 1.6 53 827 25.4 22 34 16 .0 20 69 237 19.2 0 2 158**** 426 1.4 64 919 28.3 22 34 31 .0 15 62 234 20.0 0 2 158**** 520 1.2 71 956 29.3 22 34 46 .0 12 58 231 20.7 0 2 158**** 621 1.1 77 1022 29.5 I think it must have been another piece of the launch, as the payload has catalog number 26987 , so there are 2 numbers potentially allocated. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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