Hmmm It seems there is a pass of a SL-16 rocket tonight <1999-039-B > for my local area, with this info: SL-16 Rocket 3.4 21:24:29 14° SE 21:27:58 43° ENE 21:32:10 10° N Sight says the flashes are rapid 2-3 per second! After this, a pass soon after of the Okeon-O: Okean-O 3.5 21:35:23 15° SSE 21:39:04 69° ENE 21:43:36 10° N Since both these are fairly nice and high passes, perhaps I will be able to determine whether this was in fact the object I saw. I think I will be able to determine the spin rate. I'll hope for clear skies ??? always a problem lately, and if I do observe, I'll post the observations here. Thanks! BTW, My coordinates are noted below: Penny Fischer 40.297N -74.359W ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Monmouth Mobile Observer's Group Monmouth County, New Jersey http://www.monmouth.com/~govega/mmogindex.htm S*T*A*R Astronomy Society http://www.monmouth.com/~govega *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > > Tony Bersesford wrote; > >The other obvious flasher 93 20J > > This must be 92- 30 J > > The flashers seen by Penny Fisher and Aaron Brown: > If they were flashing with a period of about 2 seconds they cann't have been > 92- 30 J that is now at 5.83 sec > 99- 39 B now at 3.83 sec > 00- 6 B now at just over 1 sec (1.03) > > Other candidates , based on a period of about 2 seconds: > 99- 22 C was 2.02 sec on May 5th > 76- 19 A that is at 2.34 sec > > But checking this for Aarons coordinates, the sats were not visible May > 27(in UT). > I don't have Penny's coordinates. > This are recent TLE's for both objects: > UME 1 (ISS 1) > 1 08709U 76019A 00146.96415740 +.00000030 +00000-0 +92368-4 0 01597 > 2 08709 069.6726 157.2923 0010370 136.7591 223.4337 13.70679458212508 > SL-08 R/B > 1 25723U 99022C 00146.94696411 +.00004474 +00000-0 +38861-3 0 01857 > 2 25723 048.4522 007.5958 0036373 323.3424 036.5012 14.98189444058869 > > Of course UME 1 (ISS 1) has nothing to do with ISS (98- 67 A) the > International > Space Station. For UME it was the acronym for: Ionosphere Sounding > Satellite, > launched by Japan on a N-1 rocket. > Also its sistercraft, 78-18 B, is flashing nicely at 3.3 sec. > > Greetings and clear, dark skies > Leo Barhorst > 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.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://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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