Re: Iridium 84 - Wow!

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In a message dated 11/29/99 5:33:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
chester.geoff@usno.navy.mil writes:

> Just a quick note to say that Iridium 84 (with a ? in Mike's elsets) just
>  passed over the Observatory.  IRIDFLAR predicted a flare of -0.2...but it
>  went off at least at -5!

Saw the same flare from about 30km north of the USNO at 22:27:42 UTC.  It was 
at least the predicted -3 mag.  Iridium 56 followed about 6 minutes later 
with a predicted +1 mag flare.

Cheers
Don Gardner  39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
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