spectacular fast flasher

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 14:32:05 EDT

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Last night FSW-3 4 (28776, 05-27A) did a truly spectacular 
pass over here at an orbital height of just over 160 km and 
flashing very brightly (-2?) about every 2.5 seconds with a 
pattern of flash-miss-flash-flash (i.e., 1.25, .63, .62), or 
flash-flash-miss-flash (.63, .62, 1.25).  

Before I got clouded out, at least two geosats flared to 1x5 
(one-power, or "naked-eye") visibility.  IDs maybe later.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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