Hi All, Walter's message reminded me that due to the ambiguous naming of Iridium 37, I need to be more specific about my observation last night. This was MMMP IR37 (Motorola/ Maley/McCants/Pickup -- 3MP?), USSPACECOM #24968, Int'l designator 97056D, and NN P35. That's "NN" for Nissen Nomenclature ;-) (It occurs to me that if we drop Motorola from the MMMP abbreviation, seeing as how Motorola is sort of implied anyway, and we use Alan's first name, the result is a confusing but apt "MMA"). A while ago someone mentioned that they saw a flasher, and that Iridium 37 was in the vicinity and a possible culprit. But was this OIG-37 or 3MP-37? The latter has not mal- functioned -- its prediction was right-on last night. And I don't think there's anything wrong with 3MP-35 / OIG-37 / NN-P39 based on its TLE: Iridium 35 - P39 1 24966U 97056B 99292.05893038 -.00000027 +00000-0 -16662-4 0 03148 2 24966 086.4003 134.4199 0002362 073.3861 286.7594 14.34217173107880 Iridium 37 - P35 1 24968U 97056D 99292.10332800 -.00000147 +00000-0 -59445-4 0 03140 2 24968 086.4008 134.3929 0002236 067.2115 292.9316 14.34216417107893 Also, Tony Beresford wrote that he saw an Iridium-like event where none was predicted, and that Iridium 37 was a possible candidate for this "extra flare". I assume this was 3MP-37, Tony? This satellite sure likes being in the news... --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html