A bright distant flasher distracted me from looking for USA 129 tonight. I saw a negative magnitude flash at RA 10:06 dec.+30 (upper W Leo) at about 19:46:17 UTC and followed it down to 11:42.0 +14 07' at 19:52:40 I later determined the period of bright flashing to be 31.14 s (SYNODIC.EXE), with secondary flashes at about -7.4 and +8.8 relative to the bright flashes (which disappeared after 19:50:39) The object was Raduga 33, #23794, 96010A at a range of 5885 to 4920 km Raduga 33 6.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 17 31123 x 266 km 1 23794U 96010A 02094.04129819 .00007960 00000-0 23977-2 0 7484 2 23794 48.2778 36.8716 6989938 201.2985 102.1598 2.64766763 50898 Reduction of yesterday's observations delayed until tomorrow. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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