Cosmos 1206 (80-069A, 11932) just made a fast pass (height about 267 km) over here. I saw two maxima of about +1, about 20 to 30 seconds apart, but otherwise it was more like +3.5 to +4.0 (invisible part of the time, viewing without magnification from outside the building where I work). I don't know if those were two flares or tumbling maxima. In the quicksat.mag file for this one it says "sometimes very bright", and there is a PPAS report of it being "variable". Alan Pickup has predicted that it will decay about January 16. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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