Two more flashing geosynchs

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 01:42:22 EST

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    I've received word of two newly observed flashing, westward-drifting 
geosynchs:

93-072A, 22907, Gorizont 29 - flash period 79.36 seconds; discovered 
by Mike Waterman, in England; may be visible now from eastern North
America.  Gorizonts can be as bright as +4.5 but generally are more
like +5 at best.

88-051C, 19217, PAS 1 - flash period about 34 (or 68) seconds; 
discovered by Ron Welch, in Australia, with 7x35 binoculars; 
brightest flashes possibly +4.5; possibly 10-12 minutes earlier 
from night to night.

GORIZONT 29
1 22907U 93072A   04056.82514902  .00000000  00000-0  10000-3 0   352
2 22907   6.3791  66.2585 0007632 149.0167 211.1931  1.00156603 37613

PAS 1
1 19217U 88051C   04052.34532313 -.00000178  00000-0  10000-3 0  8683
2 19217   2.6902  87.7130 0004270 142.4235 217.9770  0.99396196 67155

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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