unidentified flasher
Robert G Fenske Jr (fenske@rgfpc.electro.swri.edu)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 16:40:11 -0500 (CDT)
Last night centered around 9:34 pm (Jun 04 2:34 UTC) as I was
watching HST go by I spied a satellite moving parallel with HST and with
nearly identical apparent motion. This other satellite was slowly
flashing from about +4/invisible (+4 was about my limiting mag) to about
+3; the period was on the order of 20-30 seconds. I did a search with
Mike McCant's alldat.tle and didn't find a suitable candidate. I saw this
satellite as it travelled east from it's culmination at 50-60 deg el at
150-170 az to somewhat due east as it vanished into the glare of San
Antonio's light (no dark sight here!). Can anyone help me with
identifying this sat? I observed from 29.4695N 98.657583W, 213.0m alt.
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