In PPAS format: 88-028 A 03-04-03 02:36:39.56JDG1133.9 0.3 70 16.20 +3.0->inv 94-038 A 03-04-03 03:00:25.70JDG 891.8 0.3 48 18.58 +4.0->inv Gorizont 15 1 19017U 88028A 03082.62679628 -.00000179 00000-0 00000+0 0 7819 2 19017 9.8392 44.8943 0037026 333.8254 25.9943 0.97828357 36481 COSMOS 2282 1 23168U 94038A 03083.83253268 -.00000299 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 00784 2 23168 004.2759 071.1617 0009996 252.5331 107.5328 01.00339108031955 I believe that I caught the beginning of the Gorizont 15 flash cycle window at 02:17 UTC. The brightness of the flashes did not seem to have a pattern. They were typically +5.5 mag but as bright as +3 with an occasional "smear" type flash. This object, like Cosmos 2282, is accelerating. The most recent PPAS report that I could find was Ed Cannon's from a year ago: 88- 28 A 02-03-31 03:37:53 EC 461.5 0.4 26 17.75 +7.5->inv The flash period has changed by 1.55 seconds in the last year. Ref: http://satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2002/0016.html Flash times may be found here: http://www.geocities.com/iss25544/geo20030403.txt Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ http://www.howardastro.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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