Re: Interesting satellite

From: Ralph McConahy (rmcconahy@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 09:57:47 EST

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Greg Roberts wrote (excerpts)...

> The satellite was visible for
> about a minute and was about magnitude
> +07.4 and steady.
> it looks like the satellite was 79104N

> At the time of my observation the
> predicted range was 13800 kilometres
> approximately.

> the satellite is quite bright so must
> be reasonably large

This seems to be where a problem lies. The latest SSR lists 79104N's RCS at
0.0441. Perhaps there is another (larger) object that matches the positions
you observed.

  Ralph McConahy
  34.8829N  117.0064W  670m


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