In a message dated 3/27/99 8:03:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, e.duffield@bigpond.com writes: > Observed a bright satellite (mag. 2-3) approx 45 degrees above the NE > horizon, heading north at this time in Melbourne, Australia (-37.441 lat., > +144.9616 long.). Thought it was SeaSat1 (hence, an incorrect GSOC > prediction) which was due to be about that brightness and in that position > at about 1009UTC. But GSOC, as usual, was right and SeaSat1 was 'on time'. > > Can anybody figure out what this 'unknown' object could have been? The best match that I found was NOAA 15 which has been known to occasionally reach +1.0 mag. Ref: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Mar-1999/0335.html (Note all reported times should be 00:xx:xx UTC) NOAA 15 6.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 d 824 x 807 1 25338U 98030A 99085.86320457 .00000169 00000-0 94733-4 0 3010 2 25338 98.6870 116.9462 0011456 130.8650 229.3521 14.22881069 45105 Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ Space Day - 6 May 1999; http://www.spaceday.com/