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Hi Ed,

>>From: Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>
>>To: williamb@netc.net.au
>>Subject: Re: decay candidate?
>>Thursday, July 1
>>Hi Bill,
>>In doing a quick check of passes on June 8, 
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Thanks for the reply. The details were very sketchy and rather sensational,
being in 'press-speak'. The series of sightings were from several (mostly
anonymous) observers spaced up to a couple of hundred miles in various
cities across Victoria state.

The headline read:
"UFO SIGHTING SPARKS SEARCH"
You know the kind of stuff that follows.

You're quite right about the twilight. Civil twilight on that day was right
around the reported time of observation with the Sun only about 6 degrees
down in the centre of the observed 'track'.

My comment re inclination was just a guess derived from the reported
direction of travel along a line from west-south-west to east-north-east
indicating that if it was a satellite decaying it would not have been a
polar orbiter. Just to narrow it down a bit.

Thanks for the seesat list references ... I'll have a look today.

Regards, 
Bill Magnusson
Milawa, Australia

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