In a message dated 3/5/00 2:24:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, molczan@home.com writes: > On 2 Aug 97, Leigh Palmer reported his flare observation of 1 Aug 97, which > at first seemed to have come from Cosmos 1953 (88050A / 19210): > > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0013.html > > On 15 Aug 97, Brian Hunter saw another flare, which he connected with an > Iridium, and which led him to find that an Iridium had been in the same > vicinity as Leigh Palmer's flare of 1 Aug 97: > > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0239.html Two other early sightings were my own on 8 August 1997: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0241.html and http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0243.html and I believe that Bjorn Gimle had some friends who observed a flare on 7 August 1997: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0249.html After Iridflar was released I went back and confirmed the 8 August flare with the old elsets. It would be interesting to see which Iridium flared on 1 August 1997. As I recall there was some question as to the exact time but now with Iridflar it should be easy to cofirm that there was a flare that evening at that location. The description at the time sure seem to describe a flare. Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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