Anyone out there want to take a stab at this? I figure that 18384/87084A was close to the described location. Do we have any documentation of this bird as a flasher? BTW Alexandria is 38.9 N, 77.01 W. Thanks... Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Dr Anthony Cook [mailto:tcook@nasm1.si.edu] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:50 To: chester.geoff@usno.navy.mil Subject: Geostationary Satellite flash Hi, Sean O'Brien of the planetarium suggested that I contact you regarding an optical flash that I observed just off the NW limb of the Moon at 00:28:56 Dec 03 2000 UTC. I was monitoring lunar Earthsine from Alexandria, VA, when to my suprise I picked up a flash in the telescope (recorded on video) It lasted over a second and ramped up, peaked, and then down in brightness. As I have yet to detect any movement - near-earth satellites or aircraft can probably be ruled out - so I was wondering whether it could be sun-glint from a geostationary satellite or some satellite in some really elliptical orbit. Any help you can give would be gratefully welcomed. I can provide more details if needed. regards Tony Cook -- Dr Anthony C. Cook, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20560-0315. Fax. (USA) 202 786 2566 Tel. (USA) 202 633 9748 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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