re: Unexpected Iridium flare

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 09:33:49 EDT

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    It was iridium 51 which flared before iridium 36. Since one iridium can be happening to be passing
    near another, which has a similar orbit, then you get events like this.
    
                               Iridium Coordinates  
    Ir# S    Date    Local Time Azm El   RA   Decl   Mag 
    
    51    2004- 8-14 22:15:50.5 062 36  0h13  43.3  -1.1
    36    2004- 8-14 22:16:08.6 061 37  0h10  44.5  -7.7
    
    This above, is the data given by rob matson's iridflar program.
    
    You can download it from
    
    http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/flare221.zip
    
    Kevin
    
    
    		
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