Thanks to a tip from Ed Cannon I was able to observe a good, near perigee pass of the Mars Odyssey Delta rocket (#26739). There were thin clouds covering a good part of the sky, but the rocket was bright enough to be easily seen. Its max brightness was about the same as Spica's (which it passed near), putting it about +1 mag (or that's what it would have been without the clouds). It took less than two minutes to cross the sky so it was zipping along pretty fast. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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