I was looking for 99001 (elements in mccants.tle file) and found a geosynch with a fundamental period of about 21.3 seconds, which matches Mike McCants' PPAS reports in 1999. This object exhibits secondary and tertiary flashes less than four seconds apart -- pretty neat. I believe it was discovered on Jan. 3, 1999, so I've tentatively used the "+500" designation: 99-503 A 00-11-26 03:34:04.4 EC 1298.9 0.3 61 21.294 mag +6->inv double 2ndary It passed near (less than .5 degree SSE of) tau(1) Aquarius (approx. 22:51, -13.9 [2000]) at about 3:41:10 Nov. 26 UTC. Gorizont 6 was in the general vicinity, but since the flash period seems to match 99001 so well, I'm assuming it's what I saw. Observing location 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m. Observed with handheld 10x50 binoculars. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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