Detection and cataloging of space debris' small-sized fragment of the 20th stellar magnitude
Abstract
On September 24, 2020, at the Terskol observatory of INASAN, a fragment of space debris' of the 20th magnitude in geosynchronous orbit was first detected and observed for two nights using the Zeiss-2000 telescope, which corresponds to a size of less than 10 cm. The object was catalogued in the dynamic database of space objects of the Keldysh Institute of the RAS under the number 71113. The topocentric distance to the fragment during observations varied from 36862 km to 37224 km at phase angles from 53 ◦ to 68 ◦ . The object's brightness ranged from the 19th to the 21st magnitude. The parameters of the orbit and the brightness change diagrams are given.
- Publication:
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INASAN Science Reports
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- DOI:
- 10.51194/INASAN.2020.5.6.009
- Bibcode:
- 2020INASR...5..358B
- Keywords:
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- small-sized space debris;
- orbital parameters;
- detection of objects in the geostationary region