A mytery object

From: Tony Beresford (dberesford@adam.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 05:41:22 EST

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    [Originally posted to Minor planet Mailing list . Reply to author directly
    as he is not a member of Seesat-L. Using Findsat I thinnk this is
    ETS-6 aka Kiku-6 9456A. I would hypothesize that the the allsky 
    camera resolution, and/or
    the technique used to check its output integrates the flashes, Any 
    comments?- ACB]
    
    Forwarded
    A fellow Finnish observer recorded a bright (mag 1 or so) moving
    starlike object on his fireball monitoring video few nights ago. It may
    have been a balloon or something like, but possibly something outside
    the atmosphere. It seem to be too bright for a distant slow moving
    satellite. There was rising Moon just bellow the horizon to this
    direction so the object may have been lit by it.
    
    Measured coordinates can be found bellow. Any ideas anyone?
    
    Observing site: Pieksamaki, Finland E 27.10894 N 62.25807
    
    Date: 2007-02-07
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        UT      az   altitude        altitude            RA       dec
                     with refraction without refraction  (J2000.0)	
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    21:28:02  130.26 19.16          19.11               172.80   0.31
    21:31:06  129.27 18.56          18.51               173.89   0.08
    21:34:11  128.10 17.89          17.84               175.16  -0.13
    21:40:20  125.81 16.41          16.36               177.74  -0.69
    21:46:29  123.39 14.71          14.65               180.56  -1.38
    21:49:34  122.03 13.71          13.64               182.17  -1.78
    21:52:38  120.41 12.55          12.48               184.07  -2.22
    21:55:43  119.12 11.41          11.33               185.70  -2.76
    22:04:57  114.50  7.71           7.60               191.41  -4.26
    22:11:06  110.71  4.35           4.18               196.30  -5.72
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    br,
    
    arto
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