In a message dated 08/17/1999 11:04:40 AM EDT, andromed@atm.dal.ca writes: > Last night August 16/17 I saw a real flashing satellite going from about > south west to north north west. It was flasing off and on regular until it > got near 45 degrees then sorta skipped a flash but then resumed. It faded > into Ursa Major. > Anyone know what it might have been? The flashes were less than a 1001 > count, mabey 0.5 second. I did notice it was sorta light red color. > > I'm at N44 W63 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was first noticed at > 0117 UT and went till 0119 UT, it was a slow mover. Ref: SL-16 DEB 907 x 653 1 25863U 99039D 99228.15688746 +.00000475 +00000-0 +15773-3 0 00161 2 25863 098.3205 283.9565 0177483 108.1298 253.9301 14.33509061004166 SL-16 DEB 921 x 654 1 25862U 99039C 99228.62544410 .00001618 00000-0 51801-3 0 141 2 25862 97.7727 282.4392 0186760 103.5010 258.7036 14.31206444 4310 Okean-O r 10.4 3.9 0.0 3.9 v 662 x 640 1 25861U 99039B 99228.71360534 .00000397 00000-0 69672-4 0 153 2 25861 98.0472 285.3934 0016159 251.7665 108.1782 14.73020044 4491 Okean-O 3.0 2.0 0.0 6.0 d 664 x 661 1 25860U 99039A 99229.19451152 .00000629 00000-0 11439-3 0 528 2 25860 98.0468 285.7084 0002417 142.9020 217.2475 14.69494700 4550 The "C" object is a candidate (25862, 99039C). Question: How do the C and D objects arrive a a higher apogee than both the payload and the R/B? Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ Internet Phone Domain: mir.selfhost.com | stickman1@burkittsville.org