Decay watch : Meteor 1-6 obs.

Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca)
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 19:11:54 -0500

Hi everybody,

I observed 1½ hour ago a pass of Meteor 1-6 culminating at 30 deg.
over the western horizon. It was moving very fast and flashing from
mag 6 to mag 1 with a period of about 4 or 5 sec. I didn't time the
exact photometric period but I did time the pass itself as being 2.5 sec
early using the following elset :

METEOR 1-6
1 04583U 70085A   99005.55758915  .01570184 -92982-6  39495-3 0  5484
2 04583  81.0927 355.6153 0004758 177.9957 182.1413 16.29013166550461

Timing was at 22:24:58 UTC +/- 0.5 sec

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Daniel Deak
St-Bonaventure, Québec  <dan.deak@sympatico.ca>
45.9483°N, 72.6539°W, 58 m., UTC-5:00