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Thanks Nick and David for those excellent videos, both appear to show the artsat embedded in the glow still venting.
Peter
Hi Tim,
If you can get two or more positions for a suspected artsat you can use the online SatID page to try and make an identification:
https://www.projectpluto.com/sat_id2.htm
More than one position is required to get a rate and direction of of motion for matching to known objects. SatID requires positions in MPC format which isn’t too difficult to manually format. Your time/RA/Dec translates to this (using my observatory code J95 which is close enough to your site):
ARTSAT C2019 07 26.00547519 44 27.00 -06 53 54.0 J95
Try as a test these two observations from ATLAS which should identify as art sat 1999-040D:
A10f7FB* C2019 07 27.39210618 38 00.78 -19 14 18.6 14.59oVNEOCPT08
A10f7FB C2019 07 27.39767518 38 37.34 -19 25 31.0 15.25oVNEOCPT08
The output from SatID was:
2 observations found 2 observations left after dropping extras A10f7FB* C2019 07 27.39210618 38 00.78 -19 14 18.6 14.59oVNEOCPT08 25869U = 1999-040D e=0.82; P=1481.0 min; i=36.3: IUS R/B(2) motion 1.76″/sec at PA 142.3; dist= 73013.8 km; offset= 0.00 deg 0.1 seconds elapsed
(Just in case the formatting of the MPC lines gets messed up, I’ve attached those examples in a word doc)
Peter
