In a message dated 9/12/04 10:53:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eddyt420@hotmail.com writes: . If anyone has any idea as to the cause of this observed difference, I'd love to hear it. ------------------ Seasat has a large reflective surface and will be negative magnitude at times. Here's a graphic: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/history/70s/Seasat_1978.htm The best way to research the peculiar optical behavior of objects is to search the SeeSat-L archives: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html#Arch Last night at 00:27UTC I saw an object flare a few degrees to the right of Polaris. I ID'd the object as Cosmos 1980. A short search in the archives showed that Björn Gimle noted a flare from the same object a year ago. http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2003/0001.html Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ http://www.howardastro.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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