http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1172651.htm The Iridium flare referred to is presumably Iridium 3 which was due to flare at 19:15:32 local to mag -8 centred 8.7 km West of Darwin. The only thing "rare" about the ISS pass appears to be that it was so close in time after the Iridium flare. I will not comment on the other inaccuracies in the article (which I am sure the astronomer is not responsible for) because they will be quite obvious to most if not all on this list. Despite these errors, still some food for thought about the value of objective predictions being available to the public to reduce the probability of UFO reports (which could otherwise waste a lot of the authorities' time in refuting them.) Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.261S 174.948E (finally enjoying occasional clear skies!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Aug 11 2004 - 03:34:44 EDT