Re: Object moving in front of ISS

From: Bill_T_Bard@raytheon.com
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 15:06:35 EDT

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>I just saw an ISS pass here over Belgium at 17:58UTC.  In front(some 2
>degrees) there was another object moving.

>I didn't expect that.  The unknown object was much fainter than ISS, maybe
>mag +5.  Does this have something to do with the ongoing spacewalk which
>was planned today ?

I heard that during the EVA, the cosmonauts were throwing some thermal
covers in a retrograde direction. Perhaps you saw those. Sounds like it. I
don't know what their dimensions are, perhaps a meter square?

Bill Bard



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