At 20:54 8/10/01 +0200, you wrote: These elemenets have just been released. UNK 376 x 365 km 1 26943U 98067F 01282.00054338 .09581980 00000-0 75371-1 0 18 2 26943 51.6324 236.0086 0008188 181.8658 222.3357 15.66061323 45 UNK 392 x 374 km 1 26944U 98067G 01282.01425381 -.02554997 00000-0 -33285-1 0 11 2 26944 51.6330 235.9199 0012898 178.6448 300.6373 15.61599867 42 UNK 385 x 374 km 1 26945U 98067H 01282.07683017 .00959413 00000-0 94434-2 0 12 2 26945 51.6376 235.6170 0008512 169.1058 302.9891 15.62791752 47 UNK 382 x 366 km 1 26946U 98067J 01282.07415757 .01662159 00000-0 14699-1 0 10 2 26946 51.6378 235.6247 0012141 132.1233 327.2663 15.64860954 43 Those fragments are probably related to the ISS spacewalk of yesterday. They have a very large drag factor meaning a a relative large volume and low mass. 26944 even has a negative drag factor ! This fragment was probably released in prograde direction meaning that it was moving behind ISS.(maybe seen by Markus Mehring) This would probably confirm that the object I saw yesterday which was moving in front of ISS was some insulation material released by the ISS spacewalkers.(most probably 26945) Greetings, Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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