Re: FORTE NOT observed: Important Lesson Learned

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On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Jim Varney wrote:

> I received a private e-mail that my FORTE observation of Aug 30 04:04
> UT was likely a case of satellite misidentification.
> Cosmos 614 r was the object I saw, not FORTE.  When C 614 r came into

That makes sense. I looked for it, but did not see anything brighter than 
mag 8.  I did not understand why I didn't see something so bright. You 
now explained why.

Jay Respler
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