PPAS reports for December 22

From: Ed Cannon (edcannonsat@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 04:28:12 EST

  • Next message: Peter Wakelin: "SATOBS 2005 December 22"

    13007, Intelsat 503 Rk -- another weird set of timings --
    81-119 B 05-12-22 01:36:28   EC  260.4 0.5  14 18.60  +2.5->i asymmetrical
    timings: 1.16, 17.21, 4.21, 13.89, 4.54, 14.18, 5.57, 13.06, 
    5.74, 12.55, 6.31, 12.89, 6.26, 12.00, 6.93, 11.65, 
    7.07, 11.80, 7.30, 11.59, 26.26, 18.64, 11.03, 7.75, 10.77  
    
    08331, Intelsat 401 Rk -- somewhat unusual timings --
    75- 91 B 05-12-22 01:51:48   EC   67.6 0.5   4 16.9   asymmetrical
    timings: [8.41], 2.46, 5.96, 8.34, 8.58, 8.39, 
    2.41, 6.17, 6.26, 2.06, 
    2.41, 6.06, 6.34, 2.11, [2.35]
    
    21055, Italsat 1 -- last two maxima were seen in telescope 
    6 and 7 minutes after the last one seen with binoculars --
    91- 03 A 05-12-22 02:31:40   EC  855.8 0.2  14 61.13  +3.0->i
    
    Superbird A (89-041A, 20040) last seen at about 3:08:42.
    
    UFO 2 Rk (93-056B, 22788) was seen as a high, slow-moving unid
    that passed near Mars.
    
    NOSS 3-2 pair (03-054A and C) were seen as southbound unids.
    
    Regarding the MDS 1 Fairing 1 (02-003D, 28237) timings that I 
    shared with yK Chia, I don't have the absolute times until I 
    locate the original printout of the predictions for that 
    evening -- which could take some time.  I believe that it and 
    its twin are the two halves of a clamshell type of fairing.
    Over time, the flash period of one of them has been accelerating
    while the other has been slowing.
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
    
    __________________________________________________
    Do You Yahoo!?
    Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
    http://mail.yahoo.com 
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive:  
    http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Dec 22 2005 - 04:31:08 EST