Re: Bright Orange Flasher

From: Russ Bessom (russbessom@desurf.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 04:09:02 EDT

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    Tom wrote:
    Is the satellite you saw designated as:
    > USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 27001
    > International Designation Code: 2001-056-A
    
    The satellite Rocket body I was referring to is 27006.  I used the following
    TLE to see it last night.  Right on time and on station.
    You can see it tonight, 22:30 (30 Jul 02) your time, (Sioux City, Iowa)
    Thats as close as I could come to you not knowing exactly
    where you are.  At 22:30 a half of degree under 65-Theta Aquilae or try to
    pick it up a little sooner
    at 22:28 about 6 degrees under 64-Zeta Cygni.  I'm sending you a screen shot
    of it's path tonight.  Hope you see it
    regards...Russ
    
    Meteor 3M Rk
    1 27006U 01056F   02199.19723801  .00000324  00000-0  41481-3 0   901
    2 27006  99.6200  74.4019 0014521  96.5744 263.7034 13.70675124 30077
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Tom Wagner" <sciteach@mchsi.com>
    To: "Russ Bessom" <russbessom@desurf.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:00 AM
    Subject: Re: Bright Orange Flasher
    
    
    > Russ,
    >
    > Is the satellite you saw designated as:
    > USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 27001
    > International Designation Code: 2001-056-A
    >
    > If so, I once observed it quite by accident and was much impressed! Odd
    > thing is, since then I have never seen it again! At all. Not a glimmer. I
    > use H-A for the prediction.
    >
    > Any ideas?
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > Tom
    > Iowa
    > USA
    >
    > ++++++++++++
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Russ Bessom" <russbessom@desurf.com>
    > To: "SeeSat" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:44 AM
    > Subject: Bright Orange Flasher
    >
    >
    > > Greetings from Deutschland!
    > > I observed Meteor 3M Rk last night at 00:08 UTC sailing past Deneb and
    > Sadr
    > > in Cygnus flashing about every second coupled with some type of phase
    > shift.
    > > Couldn't figure it out, need more obs.  Anyway the flasher was the
    > brightest
    > > orange I've ever seen in a rocket body or satellite for that matter.  It
    > > seemed to be about a mag 2 at maxima and invisible at minima.  I
    followed
    > it
    > > from Cassiopeia all the way to Cygnus in my 20x100's binos.  What a
    sight!
    > > This is definitely a 1x flasher!  Check it out!
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > Russ Bessom - russbessom@desurf.com - Zweibruecken Germany
    > > Lat 49.14.0 N / Long 7.19.0 E - 325m
    > >
    > >
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