Tom Wagner <sciteach@mchsi.com> writes: > I just I spotted a wild satellite traveling N at the rate that I see > most LEO satellites at that altitude moving. It was passing through > Cassiopeia at 10:35:46 PM local time (3:35:46 UT). It was repeatedly > flaring to a -1 or so about every 10 seconds. This is indeed a spectacular object. Thanks for pointing it out. Thanks, too, to Leo Barhorst for the identity. 2003-07-17 02:57 UT, I obtained successive intervals of 12.75, 12.87, 9.63, 9.50, 11.80, 12.05, 12.85, and 12.63s, as bright as about -1??. Somewhat reminiscent of "synodic anomaly", discussed here in SeeSat-L quite a few years ago. Thanks to OIG: H-2A DEB 1 27702U 03009E 03201.10391756 .00076102 00000-0 18560-2 0 1842 2 27702 97.3027 272.2872 0003735 313.7026 46.4438 15.40598287 17475 Cheers. Walter Nissen wnissen@tfn.net -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- Trying to stop this country now would be like spitting on a railroad track. No politician, no party, not Congress or the Senate, can really hurt this country now. And we're not where we are on account of any one man. We're here on account of the common sense of the big normal majority. This country is bigger than any man or any party. They couldn't ruin it even if they tried. Will Rogers ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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