Ed Cannon wrote: > For the morning of Saturday, January 20, for the Austin area, > Iridflar is predicting four Iridium flares within less than > four minutes. Three of them are among those with question > marks as to their status. I've seen Iridium 21 (25778, > 99-032B) flare pretty much as predicted, but I'm not sure > about Iridium 73 (25344, 98-032C) or Iridium 14 (25777, > 99-032A). Has anyone seen either of those flare as predicted > recently? I have seen flares in the past few days from both Iridium 14 and Iridium 21. I suspect that Iridium 73 has failed and is probably slowly tumbling, so an observation (or non-observation) would be most valuable confirmation. Ed also has a opportunity for Iridium 73 on Saturday, January 13, which might give an earlier opportunity to check. Furthermore, Ed has opportunities for Iridium 2 on Friday, January 19 and Wednesday, January 24. Iridium 2 is another that I suspect to have failed, so a non-observation or an observations of flashes would again be a valuable confirmation. For reference, I thank that the status of the spare Iridium satellites (as flagged by Mike McCants with "?") is as follows: Under control and likely to flare on time (but not necessarily to the magnitude predicted by Iridflar): 51, 77, 82, 86, 20, 14, 21 Probaly out of control and tumbling: 69, 73, 2 Unknown (!): 84 (see separate thread). (all identities are the current Spacecom versions!) -- Rod Sladen, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK, 52.923N, 1.219W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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