Steve LaLumondiere wrote: >Found: One geosynchronous satellite that I cannot identify. >Three nights I have seen it, and it appears to be flashing a >few minutes earlier every evening. Using 16x70s, from So. >Cal. light polluted skies I can observe it for about half an >hour each night. Last night (actually this morning) it >became visible about 7:10 and I lost it around 7:40 UTC. >The flash period isn't quite regular, with spacings of 42.5 >and 45.5 seconds. Some of the flashes near the midpoint >were at least mag 4. Steve -- Thanks very much for your report! Based on the flash behavior and the fact that I get it only about 15 minutes of time off from your positional observation for 8/29 UTC, I believe it's the one we call 90007 (00-653A, an unknown discovered on June 1, 2000). It oscillates east and west and back, rather than drifting around the Earth. The most recent elset that I have (from Mike McCants' classfd.tle file) is: Unknown 000601 1 90007U 00653A 05152.66069363 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 90007 9.2052 50.1897 0049394 46.2897 314.1304 1.00237613 00 I believe that Mike McCants has a program that can generate projected elements for it after it has not been observed for a period of time. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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