Re: Bright unknown

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:52:12 -0600 (MDT)

Jim, try these elements from Alldat.tle.  
SL-6 R/B(1)
1 24294U 96050D   97101.13468989  .00086632  78778-5  53480-3 0  2383
2 24294  62.7581 341.7174 0461652 140.8202 222.7299 15.00761163 33380

Ron Lee

Solution courtesy of Mike McCants Alldat.tle and Rob Matson's Skymap



At 09:30 97/4/13 -0700, you wrote:
>Was out casually looking at Hale-Bopp and Superbird A with 10x50's.  A
>bright unknown, about 2nd magnitude, crossed from north to south through
>the Orion's belt area and over to northern Canis Major.  Didn't have my
>watch with me and couldn't take positional measurements.  It was about
>03:48 on April 13 (UT).  A quick run through the latest molczan.tle didn't
>come up with anything.  The object moved somewhat quickly.  My coords
>-121.398, +38.458, 8m.
>
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>_______________________________________________________
>Jim Varney        jamesv@softcom.net     Sacramento, CA
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