At 12:04 5/11/02 -0600, you wrote: >The satellite had been launched in northern Russia at almost the same > latitude of Fairbanks and its course took it almost directly over Ballaine > Lake several times a day. The satellite was visible in the reflected > sunlight for a few minutes each time it passed overhead when the sky >was clear. Brown said he wants to track down others who I just wonder if this was really Sputnik 1. I have a strong feeling this was Sputnik 1's rocket. The rocket was big and could be seen with the naked eye. Sputnik 1 was much fainter(and probably not visible with the naked eye.) Greetings, Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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