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 > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' > > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org > > List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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