[amsat-bb] Amateur Satellites Close Conjuctions

[Armando Mercado]

Hello,

Given the recent close conjunction between Compass-1 and Sich 1,
I was curious how common such encounters were.   Using
SOCRATES on the celestrak site, http://celestrak.com/SOCRATES/,
it looks like they are fairly common.

Here are some up coming conjunctions:

Objects                                       Date                    Time 
UTC        Distance KM

AO-51 (28375) &
Cosmos 676 (07433)               27 Jan. 2010            09:05:36 
1.93

Hope-1 (36122) &
Cosmos 272 (03818)               30 Jan. 2010            15:07:21 
0.511

Hamsat (28650) &
TIROS 8 Deb. (19396)              1 Feb. 2010            01:26:28 
0.926

73, Armando N8IGJ