I wish I had thought of this a couple of hours ago. Tonight (July 29/30), all of Björn's calculated provisional orbits for my unid of July 2 and 16 (UTC) converge within about 20 minutes (e.g., 2:58-3:18 UTC here just under two hours from now, as I write). I mean the orbits Björn provided in the following message: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jul-2005/0197.html From the two times I saw it, I'll venture a Quicksat intrinsic magnitude of at least +3.5 if not a little brighter; that's about +5.0 or a little brighter standard magnitude. For Quicksat/Highfly users, it's a Highfly object. If it has non-zero drag, it could be running earlier than the predictions those elements will give. The weather here and my back seem to be making it not very likely that I'll get to try to see it, but farther north (all the way to Canada) and maybe far south Texas might be able to see it. It would be very neat if someone could spot it and get a couple of positions. 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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