USA 129 -- three flashes

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 02:36:48 PDT

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    Last night (June 30 UTC) USA 129 (24680, 96-72A) did three very 
    bright flashes, first at about 3:30:45-50 (rough time due to 
    very late stopwatch click), followed by another at about 3:31:20 
    and third at about 3:31:30.  The brightest was about +0, if I
    remember correctly.
    
    Cosmos 1732 (16593, 86-15A) appeared at least four magnitudes
    brighter than the predicted +6.6 at a range of about 1680 km.
    It stayed much brighter than predictions for much of the pass.
    It was apparently pretty well lined up with the Sun and the
    observer!
    
    Mike McCants acquired Centaur 97-68B (25035) at a range of more
    than 33,000 km, flashing about +9.0 to +9.5 with period a little
    more than once per second.
    
    Hubble Telescope has been doing very nice passes for several
    nights, with one or two negative magnitude maxima on each pass.
    
    Observing location:  30.314N, 97.866W, 280m.
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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