Congratulations to everyone who's worked with Cassini! A few miscellaneous items from last night. (Hope my previous message about 90019 gets through eventually; it's been three hours since I sent it.) Cosmos 1825 (87-024A, 17566) and Cosmos 1408 (82-092A, 13552) were traveling in tandem less than ten seconds apart, almost like USA 160 A and C. Okean 1-7 (94-066A, 23317) did a zero magnitude flare near culmination. Meteor 2-2 (77-002A, 09661) seemed to be tumbling slowly. I was not expecting such and first thought it was just a flare, but it dimmed and brightened a number of times. TOPEX (92-052A, 22076) appeared as an unid crossing near position of Raduga 16 and later flared to about +3 not far north of Leo. SPOT 5 (02-021A, 27421) flared to about +3 in Ursa Major, as it crossed and went along the Big Dipper. It had been so long I wasn't sure when to look for Superbird, but I managed to catch the last four minutes or so, ending at about 3:32:27, very near RA 15:00. Iridium 21 "?" (99-032B, 25778) flared twice over a span of 30 or 40 degrees, not so predicted by Iridflar. I was at E. Ney Museum: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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