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 > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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