Since 90020 is considered "classified" I presume I can post regarding its history; My last post included what I believe to be a sighting of it based on the classfd.tle dated 05-30-2006: > At Adams Ranch Dark sky Site (+36.937,-96.650) > UNID just W of M16 in 36X (1.2 deg field) This would be at about 18h 00m, -13.8 (M16 is at 18h 05m 00s -13d 51' 44") > slowly moving north, 3 periods through field of slow tumbling, mag 8 -> 10 with > a rather sharp maxima. > Timing: 05-29-2006 05:10:32 UT > Seems to fit UNID 90020 in classfd.tle best of the tle's I have. My first question is whether anyone agrees this is a good match. I notice that the object I saw acted very much like the one Mike McCants reported on 02-16-2004: >> When I first spotted it, the object "flashed" every 2.25 seconds >> to magnitude 9 or 9.5. "Tumbles" were visible in between the flashes. Other old posts seem to indicate there has been significant variation in its optical behavior and orbit: http://satobs.org/seesat/Feb-2004/0111.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Dec-2004/0094.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2006/0193.html So the second question is whether there has been any advance in identifying the object? Brad Young COSPAR 8336 36.1397N, 95.9838W, 205m ASL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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