It looked as though I could time Gorizont 16 at 00:30 UTC but the reasonably clear skies clouded up very quickly. The sky had cleared somewhat an hour later but there was still too much haze for an obs. Raduga 11 22808 x 22578 mi 1 13669U 82113A 03058.73870978 -.00000167 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 08106 2 13669 012.9683 024.0481 0043225 066.5068 293.9699 00.97708382038385 82-113 A 03-03-08 04:42:06.25JDG1490.3 0.4 21 70.97 +7.5->inv There had been some speculation in previous posts that this was a flasher and that appears to be the case. It passed near beta-CMi at 04:29 and I couldn't find anything else nearby. Ref: http://satobs.org/seesat/Aug-2002/0324.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jan-1998/0140.html Flash times may be found here: http://www.geocities.com/iss25544/geo20030308.txt Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ http://www.howardastro.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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