What you saw was a flare first off the antenna of iridium 22, followed bt a flare off the solar panel of iridium 22. It's quite common, for flares off the solar panel. Heavens above doesn't predicted solar panel flares, only flares off the satellite's antenna. --- "Thomas A. Troszak" <tom@tomtroszak.com> wrote: > After iridium 22 performed it's spectacular predicted -8 mag flare > (Thanks Chris Peat!) it stayed visible for a while, then it flared up > again at the roughly the same location of the earlier flash, for a nice > double flare. > > Was the earlier flash from another Iridium "traveling with" Iridium 22? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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