FWD: another

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 22:49:05 EDT

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Tuesday night I received the message below from an observer
in, I believe, northern Virginia, USA:

>From: "Tom Finkenbinder"
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:03:09 -0400
>
>Went out tonight, and observed
>another artificial.  Looked like a launch, first noticed 
>two small and bright and roughly circular 'clouds' as 
>soon as I arrived about 8:55 and roughly 10d to 15d SSW of 
>Arcturus, moving ENE with velocity.  I set my scope up in 
>a hurry and observed what looked like payload and stage
>separation tracking together with vapor trail below them.  

On the previous night he had observed what was probably a 
flash from Gorizont 29.

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

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