Re: 2 Possible IDs

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Jari,

I normally don't try identifying unids, but have found Mike McCants'
Findsat works very well. Got the following hits below searching 8000+ sats
in ALLDAT.TLE. JERS looks like the best candidate, the others appear to be
faint debris. Note: ERS-2 did not make the list.

21867 JERS          
20859 90081X        
21320 75052AN       
01953 66005B        
06843 71015CK       
07146 73086DL       

Richard Hines
Lexington, SC
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At 12:41 AM 5/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Finally some clear skies here and i was able to get some sat observing in.
>As i was looking for Cosmos 1145 #11629 i spotted a flare to the SW, here
>are the particulars:
>
>Time : 05:52:50 21 May UTC +/- 2 sec
>Elev : 50 degrees approx
>Az   : 230 degrees
>Track: 180 to 330 degrees
>
>It flared to about mag 2 and then dimmed to mag 4. Approx 1 minute after the
>first flare, it flared again to about mag 2.5 and then faded and then
>becoming visible a short time later. 
>
>I have two possible IDs for this, ERS-2 #23560 or JERS 1 #21867. ERS-2
>matches the elevation more closely at the time of first spotting it while
>JERS 1 matches the timing. I do believe it was ERS-2 but i'm looking for
>confirmation. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
>
>Jari
>54.25N
>110.11W
>556m  
>
>

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