[amsat-bb] Re: Possible Mystery Spacecraft?

[Joe]

I googled for the orbital period and got just under 12 hours for them, 
and that would be too fast.
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On 6/11/2013 5:23 PM, n4csitwo at bellsouth.net wrote:
> I think they're closer to 12,000 miles up.
>
> Dave, AA4KN
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE" 
> <kevin at eaglecreekobservatory.org>
> To: "'Amsat-bb'" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:35 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Possible Mystery Spacecraft?
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>> Could have been a GPS satellite.  They run about 1200 miles up and 
>> are about
>> mag 10 or so.  They'd move about that fast across the sky.
>>
>> Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE
>> Eagle Creek Observatory
>> http://www.eaglecreekobservatory.org
>> I believe that all this hype of global warming is going to turn out 
>> to be
>> nothing more than mother nature having a hot flash.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joe
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:18 PM
>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Possible Mystery Spacecraft?
>>
>> Howdy All,
>>
>> I have no ideas as to where to possibly look for an answer to this.
>>
>> But of course we have all seen satellites, crosing the night sky. and 
>> seen
>> them in binoculars. and even ever more rarely while using a telescope
>> viewing something in the sky happen to have one of these things go 
>> zipping
>> past.
>>
>> But a buddy of mine was viewing Saturn the other night, and he spied
>> something moving. very small and faint. It was almost like a moon of 
>> Saturn
>> itself, but of course these do not move so fast you can see them move.
>>
>> This was moving in the same plane and directions of the moons. at a
>> estimated speed of about 0.02 degrees a minute.
>>
>> It was passing right through the field with Saturn.
>>
>>
>> Saturn was located at.
>>
>> celestial location
>> 14H,  17m, 50s
>> -11 deg 00 min,,20 sec
>>
>> az  196 deg 16 min
>> el 34 deg 04min
>>
>> Viewing location near Dodgeville, WI.
>> +42.96103
>> W 90.12580
>>
>> anyone have a way to try to learn what this interloper may have been?
>>
>> Joe WB9SBD
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