Iridium double flares continue: Last night, 04 Mar 2001, Iridium 61 (25263) flared to about the expected mag. +1.8 at 19:36:25 UT, then faded to invisibility before flaring again to something like +1 at around 19:40:05. (While watching this in the SE, I missed in the W my best pass of Mir before its demise!) As well as a mag. -0.2 flare in a similar place from Iridium 35 tonight, I have a predicted -8.1 flare from Iridium 6 on Tuesday. If clear skies permit, it will be interesting to see if this resolves into two separate flare episodes. The timings for the last three days seem to suggest that the flare pairs are getting closer in time. But this may just be my inaccuracy in estimating the times of the flare peaks. -- Rod Sladen, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK, 52.923N, 1.219W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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