Re: Please help with the flasher ID

From: Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 01:52:31 PDT

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    1. I can not find any one object for both times (within +- 3 minutes)
        However, on Aug.3-4 , Ir 24 tum (bling) was in upper Perseus at around
    22:15:15, moving N-SSE:
    
     1/ 8/ 3 22:13:00  13 28  22:15:37  80 57  22:19:00 152 21   5.4 25105
    Iridium 24 tum   4.0  1.8  0.0  6.0
     1/ 8/ 3 22:13:08   1 10  22:18:17  80 57  22:19:00 112 52   5.4 25320
    Iridium 71 tum   4.0  1.8  0.0  6.0
    
    2. Close in time and pos, but moving N-SW, and a "flasher type", was #07411
    DMSP B5C-03 , about 2 deg below beta.
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Denis V. Denissenko" <denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru>
    To: "SeeSat Mailing List" <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:35 PM
    Subject: Please help with the flasher ID
    
    
    > Hello!  Could anybody on the list identify the flashing sat I've seen
    > recently?
    >
    > 1. Same object observed twice:
    > 20010804, 02:16 MST (20010803 2216 UT)
    > 20010814, 01:52 MST (20010813 2152 UT)
    > Moved through Perseus at the East, 40-50 degrees above the horizon, from
    > left to right (NE->SE direction).
    > It had similar behaviour to the object described by Ulrich Beinert (see
    > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-2001/0052.html for
    > details).  Very short (about a second) flares up to -2 mag every 15-20
    > sec and below +5 mag between flares.  Neither IRS-1A nor Nadezhda 6
    > according to Heavens-Above.
    >
    > 2. Possible another single flash tonight at 22:41 MST (20010815 1841 UT)
    > about a degree from beta UMa.  Az. 325 (NW), elev. 35, E->W direction.
    >
    > I'm in Moscow, Russia, Europe, 55o45'N, 37o37'E.
    
    
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