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- Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Which satellite is this?
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Not so mysterious
... not that mysterious at all. It's clearly venting fuel from the discarded Centaur AV-005 stage, which had just launched the AMC-16 comms satellite. On Dec 17 at 1419 UTC AV-005 was almost due south of Hawaii at 6000 km over 162W 12N, on Dec 17 at 1439 UTC, AV-005 was 8850 km above 136W 17N, which...