Re: Unid last night

From: Mike McCants (mmccants@prismnet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2012 - 23:23:52 UTC

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    Tom Laskowski posted:
    
    >While observing open clusters in Monoceros last night I spotted an unid pass
    >through Collinder 115.  I thought this might be a geosat but it was moving
    >eastward faster than geosats appear to move and it was flashing regularly
    >every few seconds.
    
    The Milstar 4 rocket drifts around the Earth very slowly.
    It has not been observed for over 6 months.
    It tumbles with a period of 1 or 2 seconds.
    
    The integrated elset is:
    
    1 26716U 01009B   11277.94376248 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    06
    2 26716   6.8120  53.7134 0020259 353.2514   6.7334  1.00480950    05
    
    Mike McCants
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