I had wrote that I saw what appears to be the following. I observe between 9:40-10:00 UT oct 30 95057A 1 23696U 95057A 99210.45819304 -.00000090 00000-0 00000-0 0 6365 2 23696 3.5133 325.7975 0002884 147.4336 252.5342 1.00272405 13863 I had two replies saying I might have seen it but the objext might not be what I saw. This is because the elements were old. I know the elements are old but this object is way out there, not effect by drag from earths atmosphere like other objects. It orbit would be effected by the sun, moon, earths gravitional pull. I decided to do a rough test case. So I used the following elements for gorizont 23. I changed the name on two to help ID them. GORIZONT 21 1 21533U 91046A 98214.45770260 -.00000203 00000-0 10000-3 0 798 2 21533 4.0563 66.1444 0009621 71.6593 288.5525 0.98908505 20032 GORIZONT 22 1 21533U 91046 A 99210.38903460 -.00000240 00000-0 10000-3 0 1676 2 21533 4.7383 64.6229 0006065 101.4814 258.6710 0.98910319 23606 GORIZONT 23 1 21533U 91046A 01297.29685504 -.00000080 00000-0 10000-3 0 3427 2 21533 6.2916 60.9949 0004615 127.5891 232.4362 0.98906632 31690 Using them I get that the inclination and other values change. But it is still predicted to be in the area, while it passes by stars at different times. I was using a pair of 10*50 binoculars with a 5 degree field of view , so there was plenty of sky to watch. Even with the prediction error, it would still be in the field of view. So if I didn't see it, then what did I see. Nothing else in known orbit matches my observations. The only thing wrong in my observations, is that this sat is not to old , so why would it be flashing. either it failed/ no longer in use. Or it was something else, I don't know what. Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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