At 03:22 PM 8/07/2007, Greg Williams wrote:
>Coordinates of observation: 36.381801, -83.983054
>Location: North of Lafollette, Tennessee
>Object traveling: South to North, towards Big Dipper
>Rate of flash: 7-8 seconds
>Altitude: 30 degrees at max (estimate)
>
>Time of observation: 11:05 - 11:07 PM Eastern (0304-0307Z)
>July 7, 2007 (July 8 zulu)
>
>
>I got the family out to watch after seeing 4 sats and meteors, and I
>credit my daughter with seeing the mystery object. It was to our
>west, going north. She said "I see one" and we all turned to look
>and saw nothing. She swore she saw it and we thought maybe it was a
>lightning bug (firefly for those outside the sticks :) ) and just as
>we were about to look away it came back and really flashed
>bright. A very bright magnitude similar to Jupiter just to the
>south. It went dark again and I counted "one one-thousand, two
>one-thousand" and it flashed again from nothing to bright at 7
>seconds. It would start to become visible, and then flash, then
>dim. It did this 4 times that we saw. It faded out just below the
>big dipper as it traveled north.
Greg, Using a direction of 30 deg elevation bearing 270 and 0305UT in Findsat
with time error 200 and position error 5 degrees i got quite a few candidates.
ignoring debris and high satellites, i put the remaining thru heavens-above
to sort out the direction
This left 10352 77087A
11752 80 026C
20262 89 080C
27550 02049 A
please run these thru heavens-above to see which best fitted
your observation
Tony Beresford
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