Iridium 35 double glint(?)
Walter Nissen (dk058@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Tue, 5 May 1998 19:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
Due to poor planning (I was participating in an intense phone call about
the destruction of a family at the same time I was observing), I don't
have precise details of a mag 0(?) glint from
Iridium 35
1 24968U 97056D 98113.11820557 -.00000180 +00000-0 -71227-4 0 01690
2 24968 086.4034 001.5110 0002505 063.2763 296.8689 14.34215273029925
Iridium 35 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 780 x 776 km
1 24968U 97056D 98124.14162608 .00000246 00000-0 80900-4 0 1870
2 24968 86.4042 356.9114 0002409 69.8932 290.2522 14.34220676 31502
But I did observe a _dual_ peak of about the right magnitude at about the
right time at about the right location, 980505 0148 UT. Possibly a thin
cloud obscured the center of the glint, but if so, I never saw it. The
center of the glint was not brighter than mag 2(?). Peak-to-peak interval
might have been 10s, but that's a very crude guess.
Many thanks to Rob Matson for IRIDFLAR for the prediction, to Alan Pickup
for the elset, and to Mike McCants and Ted Molczan for the earlier elset.
Cheers.
Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu
-81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation
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