Re: Bright naked eye flasher

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:44:51 +0200 (MET DST)

Willie Koorts:
>I tried my own identification of it using Skymap and the best candidate 
>seems to be   NORAD 08027  Meteor 2-1 r
>
>Is this known to be a bright flasher or was I just fortunate to have a 
>good pass?    Was I perhaps seeing another satellite?
>

You could check the PPAS (Flash) database on WWW - I don't have the time.
I ran SkyMap with el961004, magn 7, range 3000 km, and found little more.

NOSS 2-3 Rk   
1 23907U 96029  B 96259.84022896 0.00012700  00000-0  12318-3 0    08
2 23907  63.4264 193.3130 0237000 159.3031 200.6969 15.38062695    09

should pass from NNW - 69 degrees - SSE, flash, and be bright.


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