Re: 89-100B tumbling rapidly already reported

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My apologies to Paul Maley for not remembering his message about Cosmos 2053
Rk. Although my favorite search engine, Alta Vista, has the Seesat archive
pretty well indexed, it doesn't do anything with numbers (as far as I've been
able to determine), so I didn't try a search in this case beyond the PPAS
online database and recent observations.  I know there's some way to search
Seesat directly, but when I tried to read the instructions some time ago, they
were pretty daunting.

Mike McCants and I saw Superbird A (20040, 89-41A) Monday evening.  Some of
the flashes were visible at one-power, even with moonlight and having to look
directly over Austin's city-glow.  Mike calculated the phase-shift time as
being about 3:18:09 UTC 28 Sept.  Location: 30.314N, 97.866W, 270m.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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