Re: NOSS 2-3 r

Edward S Light (light@argos.argoscomp.com)
Wed, 20 May 1998 08:12:21 -0400 (EDT)

Earlier today, Ulli Hanke wrote ...

>Subject: NOSS 2-3 r
>
>Hi All,
>
>last night (05/20/98, 00:04) I saw NOSS 2-3 r precisely as predicted (with
>STPLUS and an elset from Ted Molczan with epoch 05/08/98, 2:18:08 UTC). It was
>flashing with an period of about 5 sec (wild guess !).
>Is anything known about that ?
>
While we usually do not try to time varying satellites, a check of our records
reveals that we saw this object, presumably 23907 = 96-029B = NOSS 2-3 R/B,
on 4 different occasions from February to July 1997 and only noted it obviously
varying once (1997 Feb 09 23:56 UTC) with a period of about 2 1/2 seconds. Each
time we saw it it reached magnitude +2.

Clear and dark skies!

Ed Light
Lakewood, NJ, USA
40.107 N, 074.232 W, +21 m