This morning I happened to notice a zero magnitude slow-moving southbound object in the northwest, in Perseus. After about three minutes or so I lost it behind trees low in the SSW, south of Orion. It was also almost time for ISS. The object was still about +2.0 at that point. Findsat identified it as Meteor 3-3 (20305, 89-086A). At its culmination it was over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) range. Landsat 4 (13367, 82-072A) is making one-power passes each morning, though the first one I saw a few mornings ago was the brightest. MOS 1-A (17527, 87-018A) did a flash about -5 magnitude this morning. Iridium 51 (25262, 98-018A) flared to about -5 as predicted by Iridflar. I thought Superbird 6 (28218, 04-011A) might be a candidate for Brad Young's flashing geo. I looked for it for about half an hour last night but did not see any flashes. As did Russell, I got 15383 (84-113B) as the other possible candidate, but I ended up not looking for it. A night or two ago Mike tracked a very high object for about half an hour, and there was no match for it. It crossed the field of view with one of the classified geosynch Centaurs. I wonder how many such things are still up there, with that one and the one Mike and I saw a couple of months ago and the one I saw a few weeks ago and the one Rainer saw a few days ago.... Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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