I observed TiPS visually from 03:37 to 03:39 UT with a 16 inch aperture F/4.5 reflector (Dobsonian), hand-guided, using a wide-angle eyepiece at 50 power. TiPS was in the West moving N to S from an elevation of 48 to 29 deg. I did not find it until some 4 min. after it might have had bright specular reflec- tions (on the same azimuth as the sun). Not surprisingly, I observed no flashes brighter than mag. 10. But what I did see was real eye candy: .__________________________________________________________________. An exquisitely fine, perfectly straight, silvery line with a pinpoint of light at each end. Both masses were flashing irregularly from 0.5 to 4 Hertz. They were not flashing in unison. When not flashing, the masses could not be seen. For each mass, the flashes were all about the same - mag. 10 for the lower, and mag. 11 for the upper. The flashes had very short attack & decay times characteristic of specular reflections. Based on this and earlier observations of brighter & slower flashes, I get the impression that both masses have lots of small flat surfaces, and the lower one has a flat bottom. The rapid flash rate during the entire interval suggests that orbital motion alone is not responsible - I entertain the thought that the masses are spinning. R. B. Minton