Re: unidentified flasher
Jeffrey C. Hunt (jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
Ok, I'll go out on a limb and say it was
Atlas Centaur 2 deb
1 00739U 63047H 96220.94803301 +.00000204 +00000-0 +16642-4 0 01212
2 00739 030.4240 048.8383 0678506 261.2932 091.0318 13.75035234633495
This track looks good except it passed about 10 deg. below Corona
Borialis. My records show it at an emperical mag. +5. The sat sit rpt
shows it having a RCS of 0.3m2 .
Regards, Jeff Hunt <jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com>
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, vince gardiner wrote:
> At about 08.26 UT this day 12th aug 1996 we observed a flasher moving
> through Corona Borialis from approx 300 to app 70 deg az. The stop watch
> at first didn't work, but I managed to time from flash 1 to flash 7 ie. 6
> flashes at 43.56 secs. Mags were approx 2 > inv. Skymap does not
> indentify this satellite to us except with the possibility of 10793 Yuri
> r, but the Skymap elevation is too high. Can anyone enlighten me on this
> one please.
> regards Vince Gardiner
> location 153 04 56 east 30 20 43 south.