Greg Roberts wrote: > UNFORTUNATELY ELEKTRON 1 #00746 was predicted to go over > at the same time, position and direction so what was observed may have > been a brief flash from ELEKTRON 1 but the impression I had was that > the angular velocity was far too fast for a satellite at ELEKTRON 1's range of > 5373 kilometres so I am not entirely convinced that it was ELEKTRON 1. The angular velocity between your two points of the faint object of 27 June UTC was 0.052 deg/s. XSS-11 and its rocket would have moved at about 0.30 deg/s, so most likely you did see Electron 1. Russell Eberst has reported Electron 1 observations on three occasions: 1994, 1998 and 2002, and it flashed or regularly varied on all but 1998. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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