Mike, Fred, and I all saw Iridium 73 (98-032C, 25344) do a -4 flare that lasted several seconds. It was southbound high in the SSW, but all of the regular, predicted flares last night were not in that part of the sky at all. Back in 2000 and 2001 there was discussion of such anomalies with this one. If there are reports of an odd phenomenon in the sky last night over South America, it may have been a burn from the Proton launch yesterday. I asked Mike if any of its long burns might be visible, and he gave me a small tutorial in figuring such things out, as much as possible, from information in the Spaceflightnow mission status reports about the launch. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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