The UNID near Superbird A was Intelsat 502 (80-098A, 12089): 80- 98 A 01-11-08 06:16:44 EC 3134.9 1.0 12 261.2 +4->inv 1 12089U 80098A 01309.16366366 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 3486 2 12089 9.3287 41.7130 0014613 101.2508 258.8341 0.98885741 44828 I was going to look for the early series of Superbird A, but I was distracted by this one. I had no predictions for another object that close to Superbird A. The first flash I saw was at about 3:00:47 UTC. I lucked out and saw the next flash. After that I looked at 1/2 and 1/4 period times but only saw flashes every 261.2 seconds. Some time after Superbird A was done I decided to come here and find some candidates and go back out and try to find it again later. First I tried a different object but saw no flashes. With another stroke of luck, I did find this one still flashing and watched it a while longer. So the last one I looked for was over three hours after the first one I saw. All of the maxima were doubles, with a separation of between 0.5 and 1.0 second. Earlier I had managed to get to the site in time to see some flashes, from 1:40:37.5 to 1:44:52.8, from Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101), which is getting low in the west. 85- 87 A 01-11-08 01:44:52.8 EC 234.1 0.5 11 21.29 +4.5->inv Observing site, E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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