Re: LES 8 spectacular and very bright geosat AMC-16

From: ALLEN THOMSON (thomsona@flash.net)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2006 - 20:12:55 EDT

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    --- 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
    
     
    
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