At 09:09 26/04/02, Pinizzotto,Russell wrote: >Group: > > > >The flat bottom nadir panel that was pointed out may be responsible. It's >certainly large enough when compared to an Iridium satellite. Can the >Iridium flare programs be modified to predict this behavior? Russell and Randy, You cant get a sunglint off a nadir pointing surface in LEO, except within a few degrees of the local horizon. This was discussed on this list a few years ago. If you could the globstar satellites would be giving glints. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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