Leo Wikholm (leowik@spider.compart.fi) wrote: > Do you know satellite re-entries on February 18, 1998? > A mysterius light phenomenon was observed at 17:00 UTC in the western > part of Finland. > The man saw six fireballs moving to the North. They were in queue and > the phenomenon > was visible about two minutes. > > Leo Wikholm > e-mail: I suspect Iridiums. Here's Iridflar.exe output for a location that I believe is in western Finland: Configuration file: fin1 TLE File: ir80219.tle Latitude: 62.00000 Longitude: 22.50000 Altitude: 50.0 m Time Zone: UTC +2.0 h UTC Iridium Sun Flare Maximum Flare Ir Date Time Azm El Rnge N I Azm Elv Ang Mg MMA Latit. Longit. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 98- 2-18 16:51:08 022 54 942 A L 266 -10 0.0 -8 L 62.000 22.491 13 98- 2-18 16:52:21 022 55 778 A L 266 -10 0.0 -9 L 61.999 22.514 54 98- 2-18 16:52:21 022 55 777 A L 266 -10 0.0 -9 L 61.999 22.512 50 98- 2-18 16:52:21 021 55 774 A L 266 -10 0.0 -9 L 62.000 22.499 53 98- 2-18 16:52:25 021 55 777 A L 266 -10 0.0 -9 L 62.000 22.494 52 98- 2-18 16:53:31 020 56 758 A L 267 -10 0.8 -3 L 62.006 22.275 51 I wish I could have been there!!!!! Ed Cannon ecannon@mail.utexas.edu Austin, Texas, USA