Hello Marco,
Perhaps it is time to adopt a coordinated approach to observing
Lacrosse 5. Would it be possible to attempt observations from multiple
sites so that L5 was observed from different angles simultaneously and
along its track consecutively? Pooling the observations of flares and
fades could lead to producing a silhouette of the satellite. Even
negative reports may be useful. Such an undertaking would require the
cooperation of many members.
Gordon
Newcastle, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl>
To: "satellite list" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: 28646 disappearance not confirmed (yet)
>
>
> PAUL MALEY wrote:
> > Based on reports from Marco and John I have been
> > attempting to confirm the disappearance phenomenon of
> > 28646 myself.
> [snip]
> > Whatever the cause, the phenomenon must not be
> > commonplace.
>
> My not-yet-quite-quantified impression is that bouts of passes with
> "disappearance tricks" interchange with bouts of "normal" passes. I
cannot quite
> make sense of it yet.
>
> I made a small survey of reports on the phenomena. So far, at least 7
observers
> seem to have reported the Lacrosse 5 sudden fainting phenomenon in the
period
> March '06 - August '06:
>
> * Ed Cannon
> * Ted Molczan (who refers to Greg & Russell as well, seesat messsage
March 3)
> * me
> * Pierre Neirinck
> * John Locker
> * Bram Dorreman
> * Nikolay Oleinikov
>
> The interesting point is that the phenomena seems to be really unique
to
> Lacrosse 5, it is apparently not shown by the other Lacrosses: at
least I have
> never seen these do it (I regularly do see them flare though), nor
have I seen
> reports by others on it. This although the Lacrosses are the main
focus of my
> observing program.
>
> This mystery has grabbed me, it begs solving.
>
> Somewhere in the vaults of Cheyenne Mountain someone is laughing
his/her butt of
> about our confusion.... ;-)
>
> - Marco
>
>
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