Yes Ed! I saw this same satellite. Two nights ago it
was next to Mu Virgo and then last night I saw it
appear and the disappear 3 times while holding
position vs. the background stars. It seems to flare
the most with anti-solar point (now in northern
Scorpius) directly below it. Will look again tonight -
seems to have a 20 minute or so period.
Regards,
Jeff Umbarger
Plano, TX USA
--- Ed Cannon <edcannonsat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Earlier tonight from the Ney Museum site (30.307N,
> 97.727W,
> 150m) I was looking at northern Libra, at about RA
> 15:10,
> Dec -5, without binoculars, when I realized that
> there was an
> extra +2.0 star northwest of beta Librae. This was
> at about
> 04:30:57 May 26 UTC. After a minute or two it
> faded, but it
> was still visible with my 8x42 binocular at about
> +6.0. I got
> a couple of positions about 12 minutes apart, and
> both match
> well with Express AM-11 (28234, 04-015A). On March
> 30 Kevin
> Fetter sent a link to a story about the sudden
> failure of this
> satellite and it being maneuvered to a graveyard
> orbit:
>
> http://satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2006/0277.html
>
> Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
>
>
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