I observed USA 129 18 s early wrt to Epoch 00228.85796902, 12 s early wrt 00229.87321181 and 00230.88704950 from Michael (sic) McCants (8 s late wrt 00226.15220689). Contrary to my recent obs of a long (>20s) flare, I saw six flashes, all but one sub-second. If this was some other object, I am surprised that I didn't see USA 129 trailing. If OTOH it was USA 129, not only the flashing, but being 12 s off a very new elset is unusual. According to my notes the first position was 1/4 from an upper reference star towards a lower. This results in an off-track error of 0.3 deg. If it were 1/4 from the lower, it would be close to the predicted track (both included below). The second position (20:40:03.7) does not agree with the timing of USA 129, there is no asterism like the one I noted near the expected position, and I have very little faith in my identification of the position anyway. I find no other object in alldat.tle to match these obs either. 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203739000 57 I-010 10 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203807000 17 25 1542780+132700 29 I+030 10 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203807000 17 25 1542120+130500 29 I+030 10 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203818600 37 I-020 20 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203822900 37 I-020 20 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203837500 37 I-020 20 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819203908100 37 I-020 20 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819204003700 17 25 1212800+335700 29 I+030 10 24680 96 072A 5919 G 20000819204020000 37 I-020 20 -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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