Re: A flashing UNID photographed on 25 DEC 2015

From: C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:04:24 +0100
Hi Alain,

This is a bit of a mystery. These are the positions I obtained from
the images you kindly sent me:
99999 15 859A   9001 G 20151225180739032 27 25 0207471-031551 17 S
99999 15 859A   9001 G 20151225180739994 27 25 0207620-031899 17 S
99999 15 859A   9001 G 20151225180744994 27 25 0208588-034096 17 S
99999 15 859A   9001 G 20151225180802976 27 25 0212139-050101 17 S
99999 15 859A   9001 G 20151225180807976 27 25 0213100-052315 17 S

With the 9001 location:
9001 AF   44.5700    6.68     1850    Alain Figer

These show that the orbit derived by Alain Grycan is a good fit to the
data. Unfortunately, no known object seems to match these.

Besides the classfd, inttles and public catalogs I also compared these
points against objects in the ISON catalog, and none seems to fit.

My best guess is some untracked object that, due to favorable
geometry, was exceptionally bright.

Regards,
   Cees
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