Re: Four Iridium flares in less than four minutes?

From: Bjoern Gimle (bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 04:19:21 PST

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    > about Iridium 73 (25344, 98-032C) or Iridium 14 (25777,
    > 99-032A).  Has anyone seen either of those flare as predicted
    > recently?
    >
    I saw #25777 Jan.10 giving an apparantly nominal -7 mag flash.
    
    If we did not have such unusually cloudy weather (about six sunny days in
    three months, but perhaps three evenings only, and a few more totally
    unpredicted clear mornings) I could watch a very slow progression of Ir 14
    flashes from work :
    
    14 ?01- 1- 4 18:22:54.6 146 39  R  0.82 -2.9  17.4 km West
    14 ?01- 1- 6 18:15:03.2 150 39  R  0.63 -3.7  13.1 km West
    14 ?01- 1- 8 18:07:11.6 155 38  R  0.44 -4.8   9.0 km West
    14 ?01- 1-10 17:59:20.0 159 38  R  0.23 -7.4   4.8 km West
    14 ?01- 1-12 17:51:28.1 164 37  R  0.01 -7.8   0.0 km West
    14 ?01- 1-14 17:43:36.1 168 37  R  0.30 -5.8   5.7 km East
    14 ?01- 1-16 17:35:43.9 172 36  R  0.66 -3.2  12.8 km East
    14 ?01- 1-18 17:27:51.5 176 35  R  1.10 -1.5  21.8 km East
    14 ?01- 1-20 17:19:58.5 179 34  R  1.62 -0.1  33.3 km East
    14 ?01- 1-22 17:12:05.0 183 33  R  2.23  1.0  48.0 km East
    
    14 ?01- 1-17  6:30:28.0 353 52  R  1.63 -1.0  25.2 km East
    14 ?01- 1-19  6:22:42.5 351 48  R  1.59 -0.9  26.5 km West
    
    
    
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