Last night Ed said that he had recently seen the Cosmos 2341 rocket (97-17B, NCat 24773) tumbling. I watched it for only 2 cycles and got a period of 16 seconds. There are no recent observations in PPAS, but Bram posted a period of 46 seconds last June. Some PPAS observations over the last month: Desig Date Time Obsr Durtn Acc Num Per Remarks 97- 17 B 06-04-22 03:27 MM 31.9 0.5 2 16.0 5.0->inv 05- 04 B 06-04-22 02:53 MM 79.8 0.4 15 5.3 4.5->6.0 99- 04 A 06-04-17 02:35 MM 52.4 0.2 20 2.62 6.0->7.5 05- 48 C 06-04-17 03:14 MM 98.6 0.2 34 2.90 5.5->inv 98- 16 B 06-04-14 03:09 MM 200.3 0.5 12 16.7 7.0->9.0 94- 56 A 06-04-14 02:10 MM 333.5 0.1 39 8.55 bright flashes 05- 48 C 06-04-14 02:40 MM 50.8 0.2 18 2.82 5.5->inv 00-653 A 06-04-09 04:30 MM 850.5 0.2 13 65.4 bright flashes 94- 56 A 06-04-08 02:16 MM 238.6 0.1 28 8.52 bright flashes 84- 79 D 06-03-21 02:45 MM 47.9 0.2 30 1.60 8.5->10.0 85- 76 F 06-03-21 01:42 MM 89.4 0.5 6 15.0 5.0->7.0 93- 22 D 06-03-21 02:01 MM 32.4 0.2 15 2.16 8.0->10.0 79- 58 D 06-03-21 03:32 MM 85.6 0.2 38 2.25 9.0->11.0 02- 03 C 06-03-21 03:18 MM 170.7 0.2 25 6.83 6.5->8.0 Mike McCants - Austin, TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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