Re: 02 58 Objects

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 00:30:04 EST

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    Mike McCants wrote:
    
    >"Payload D" (02 58D, 27608) varying from magnitude 7 to 
    >10.5 with a rather irrigular period of about 10 seconds.
    
    Here are the clicks that I got for this object on Dec 25 
    UTC.  I was not sure how to interpret them, although 
    multiples of about five seconds can make a rough fit.  At 
    the "9.79**" click it flashed to at least +1 magnitude.
    
    start, 1:13:27.21 --
    20.35, 5.10, 9.79**, 14.95, 28.16, 5.94, 15.65  
    -- end, 1:15:07.15
    
    On the sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe newsgroup 
    there's a message (Dec 22, from Charles F. Radley) 
    requesting obs of 27605-27609 (02-058 A through E), 
    mentioning that one of them, Transorbital's Trailblazer 
    "structural test article" is octagonal.  There's an image 
    of an engineering test mock-up of the launch's payload 
    assembly on this page:
    
    http://transorbital.net/gallery.html
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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