Asteroid hunter Bill Yeung( microplanet333@yahoo.com) was testing out a new Wide field camera on Feb 23 UT, from his site in Arizona at 31.9625N 110.476W 4190.ft ASL , known to MPC as Desert Eagle (333) He found 12 satellite trails which he asked me to identify. I succeeded identifying 9. Here are some positions of unidentified ones in the format used for submitting asteroid observations, which is mostly self-explanatory. One extra way of identifying these objects is of course for an analyst to combine these with existing visual observations and perhaps identify a previosly unknown object or recover a lost object like USA 103 or USA 125. The other objects identified included 3 glosnass satellites, a glosnass rocket,a rocket in the Russian GTO orbit and the first stage of the solid 2 stage rocket that sent the CHANDRA satellite into its desired orbit. Tony Beresford Time is in decimals of a day Motion is relative to the RA/Dec system not theEarth's surface. ID Yr M dd.dddddUT RA Dec Mag C Site P006CC C2003 02 23.36248 11 22 33.04 +24 39 06.9 09.9 R 333 P006CC C2003 02 23.36329 11 23 24.44 +24 10 18.9 10.0 R 333 motion = 648.76 degrees/day, PA = 157.89 P006CD C2003 02 23.36460 11 15 21.05 +22 10 07.6 11.2 R 333 P006CD C2003 02 23.36539 11 16 33.32 +21 27 56.8 11.5 R 333 P006CD C2003 02 23.36613 11 17 44.10 +20 46 15.3 11.6 R 333 motion = 994.45 degrees/day, PA = 158.35 P006D3 C2003 02 23.36230 11 22 20.78 +24 45 40.0 09.8 R 333 P006D3 C2003 02 23.36308 11 23 11.31 +24 17 46.7 10.1 R 333 Total rate = 648.34 degrees/day, PA = 157.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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