Re: Unidentified flash over New Mexico Feb 22, 2012

From: Tony Beresford (dberesford@adam.com.au)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2012 - 00:07:51 UTC

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    At 07:13 AM 23/02/2012, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
    >Thank you Carlos and Björn for looking.
    >
    >Regarding "geostationary" : I'm not sure but I think the object moves
    >discernibly from NNE to SSW over the course of 8 seconds. Would a
    >geostationary sat move noticeably?
    >
    >Thomas
    
    assumming you are not tracking the answer is no. Even the
    many abandoned near geo satellites wouldn't move a more than
    one pixel in 8 seconds. Its also a long way off the declination
    for a geostationary satellite, which is about -5.5 degrees for your latitude.
    
    A re-entry seems to be disallowed because of the
    short time interval. Its also not an iridium flare.
    
    Heavens above doesn't show satellites when it doesn't know
    how bright they are. can you give a calibrated position
    in either equatorial or topocentric figures and myself and
    others can run a check on all available TLEs( Space-trak + Classfd.zip)
    
    Tony Beresford
    
       
    
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