Unknown Satellite: 26/3 1005UTC, Melbourne, Aust

Evan Duffield (e.duffield@bigpond.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 00:00:55 +1100

Observed a bright satellite (mag. 2-3) approx 45 degrees above the NE
horizon, heading north at this time in Melbourne, Australia (-37.441 lat.,
+144.9616 long.).  Thought it was SeaSat1 (hence, an incorrect GSOC
prediction) which was due to be about that brightness and in that position
at about 1009UTC.  But GSOC, as usual, was right and SeaSat1 was 'on time'.

Can anybody figure out what this 'unknown' object could have been?

Cheers


Evan
Melbourne, Aust.