Re: Flashing of IRIDIUM 18

From: Petter Broby Aslaksen (aslaksen@stud.ntnu.no)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 06:43:32 EDT

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    Perhaps someone should let the people that publish the kepele.tle file at
    sattrackhouston that the mistake has been made, I don't know who is
    answering to that specific library of elsets. From now on I will be
    double-checking the identities of the different satellites with
    heavens-above.com, using the identification numbers, so I will not write
    more faulty observations in the future.
    
    On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Bjorn Gimle wrote:
    
    > Petter's 18/920 elsets are identical, and I adjusted the names so they are
    > both readable on the plot tag.
    > The "real 18" was 45+ minutes later.
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com>
    > To: "'Petter B. Aslaksen'" <aslaksen@stud.ntnu.no>; <seesat-l@satobs.org>
    > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 1:27 AM
    > Subject: RE: Flashing of IRIDIUM 18
    >
    >
    > > Hi Petter,
    > >
    > > > I observed Iridium 18 as it passed straight through zenith at 22.01 UTC
    > > > tonight ...
    > >
    > > I think you mean Iridium 15...
    > >
    > > > ... and it seemed to be flashing about avery 1 sec. I haven't seen
    > before
    > > > any of the Iridiums do this, although I saw the Iridium 920 being on the
    > > > flashers and disco balls list sent out a few days ago. Does this
    > indicate
    > > > that Iridium 18 as well is now tumbling?
    > >
    > > No -- actually, what you saw was indeed Iridium 920 which was on a
    > parallel
    > > path with Iridium 15 at the time of your observation.  --Rob
    > >
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