Allen, Antonin, et al.: Thanks for the quick response on this. I'm looking into the probability that this was a weather baloon released by NWS Sterling, VA, but the coincidence with the sky position of Cosmos 382 got my attention as well. It certainly sounds like this is a big hunk of ironmongery. The question in my mind is whether it has any bright flat reflective surfaces that could cause it to appear at mag -3 for a minute or 2 in bright twilight? Cheers, geoff > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Thomson [mailto:thomsona@flash.net] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 14:32 > To: chester.geoff@usno.navy.mil; SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com > Subject: Re: Strange sight last night > > > Geoff Chester said, > > > Running several sat-tracking programs, the concensus was > that Cosmos 382 > > (04786 70103A) was in the right place at the right time. > Has anyone ever > > seen a bright long-lived "flare" off this bird? Does > anyone know what > kind > > of satellite it is? It seems to be in a fairly high orbit... > > > It seems to be a Soyuz+Blok D remnant left over from the Soviet lunar > landing program. See > http://www.friends-partners.org/~mwade/articles/sovpart2.htm > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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