Hi Christoffer, Thank you for clearing up the issue with summer time. Russell Eberst contact me offline and suggested that you may have seen the two halves of the payload fairing of the IGS 8 launch. These are objects 39065/13002E and 39066/13002F. Both seem to match your observation as they follow the same path on the sky separated by about 2 minutes (39065 leading 39066). These objects are known to flash and flare so I agree with Russell that one of these objects is a perfect match for your observation. These fairing halves belong to the rocket that launched IGS 8A and B. These are Japanese spy satellites. As such, the orbital elements of objects belonging to this launch are not published by SpaceTrack. Instead the observers here on SeeSat keep track of them. To run predictions for them you will have to download the classified elements by Mike McCants from http://www.prismnet.com/~mmccants/tles/index.html Kind regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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