Re: FW: Iridium Flare Image

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> From: Neil Clifford <clifford@astro.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: FW: Iridium Flare Image
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 18:30:55 +0100 (BST)
> [ ... ]
> http://www.satellite.eu.org/image/Flare2.jpg
>    The photo was shot August 25. The Iridiums 22-26 passed through the
>    field beginning at 11:02:16 UT and ending at 11:03:47. The tracks are
>    ordered from top to bottom as 24907, 24906,24905,24904,24903. Local
>    elevation 35 degrees azimuth 212, slant range about 912km.


Many thanks to Paul Maley and Neil Clifford for making this image
available on the VSOHP web site.  Remarkable!  :-)

And now a question...  I see four roughly parallel tracks and one
"oddball" track below and roughly perpendicular to those four.  Is
that odd fifth track that of the fifth Iridium?  Surely not...?!?
But if not, then what is it?

--Sue Worden (worden@uts.cc.utexas.edu)

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