On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, The Flange wrote: > Last night (3/4) I made an interesting observation of a pair of objects > which I have been unable to identify. At around 22:30 - 22:35UT I > noticed a bright yellow object in the S/SSW, around magnitude -2,moving > towards the N/NNE. I soon noticed there was a 2nd object about 5 seconds > ahead of it, much fainter at around mag 4. As the objects > passed overhead going NNE both were around magnitude 4. At first I > thought perhaps I'd observed the Shuttle and ET (which I've seen > before) but quickly realised a) its the wrong day and b) the shuttle > appears in the west from my location after launch. But that's what it > looked like. I'm sure someone will know of a such pair of satellites, > at least one of which is clearly capable of bright flares - can > someone ID? I found 3 satellites that are possible matches: Cosmos 1726 r (#16496), USA 160 (#26905), and USA 160 C (#26907). USA 160 and USA 160 C (what are these two?) would have been paired up within some seconds of each other but would have come more in the SW --> NE direction. All 3 though would have been predicted to be in the +5-+6 mag range so the brightness you observed is anomalous. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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