Re: unknown flasher

From: ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 00:34:39 EDT

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    I used McDonald Observatory coordinates to come up with a list of 
    possibilities.  I suggest starting with these:
    
    24836  97-030A  Iridium 14 - recently about every 8.0 seconds
    24842  97-030G  Iridium 11 - recently about every 6.6 seconds
    22823  93-061A  SPOT 3 - recently about every 31 seconds, sort of
    12553  81-059A  NOAA 7 - 16 seconds (no recent data right at hand)
    
    If you were using a 16-inch (406 mm) telescope and really want 
    to do it yourself, here's the current, active PPAS list of 
    flashing/tumbling objects (a plain-text file):
    
     http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/program.rob
    
    And here are reasonably current data on those and many more known 
    flashing/tumbling objects (also a plain-text file):
    
     http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppasdrft.obs
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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