UNID request
Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:22:59 -0700
Ok folks, now you know. I am not always able to ID transient
satellites I observe while looking for something else. On
10 Mar 98 while I was looking for Superbird's maximum, I did see
two satellites pass through the field of view of my telescope.
One I determined was #6125 (I forget the name).
The other eludes me. The time of passage was about 02:13:36 UT
on 10 Mar 98. The RA was 9h 2m, Dec 0.0. My location in Falcon,
CO is 104.5614 W, 38.9478 N, 2073 m, (local time is UT-7).
The direction of travel was consistent with an inclination in the
98 degree region, and mean motion in the vague vicinity of 13-14
revs per day. It was travelling southward. The interesting thing
about it was that it flared a bit as it passed through.
Ron