--- Ed Cannon <edcannonsat@yahoo.com> wrote: > Last night by accident I saw a very bright flash (no binoculars). > We waited and waited, and 3 minutes and 13.5 seconds later it > flashedagain -- very bright. This was not long after 10:00 PM > local time (3:00 UTC). It was LES 8 (73-023A, 08746). It very > very gradually got fainter over the next hour (?) -- don't know > when it started. This was very easy to see without magnification. Very interesting. This, combined with the earlier LES 8 observations, increases my suspicions that LES 8 was the member of the 8/9 pair that carried the stealth mirror. See http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/asat/at_001012.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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