April 29, 2001 Saturday night (early April 29 UTC) Mike McCants confirmed that an unknown tumbling geosynch he had seen near Superbird A as Olympus 1 (89-053A, 20122). Its visual characteristics aren't easy, so beyond saying that its brightest maxima were about +9 and the repetition period seemed to be about 6:45, I'll leave any further analysis to him! Here are data on when in the last several nights that I've seen a second flash episode of Superbird A: April 2001 UTC ------------------------- 04/19 - 03:23:40-03:34:20 04/25 - 03:38:51-03:53:34 04/26 - 03:43:25-03:58:15 04/28 - 04:00:53-04:15:22 04/29 - 04:07:24-04:22.14 04/30 - 04:18:29-04:24.55 (cut short by clouds) I'd sure be interested if anyone anywhere else sees something like that. By the way, there was a lot of discussion of Superbird A in February 1997, including the following message in which Mike reported two separate flash episodes: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Feb-1997/0153.html Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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