Re: Two High-Priority Objects
jamesv@softcom.net
Sat, 10 May 1997 08:38:55 -0700
I mistakenly wrote:
>Here's my tentative interpretation: the 5.72 and 8.19 sec periods are
>'synodic anomalies' which have been studied by Bart De Pontieu last year
>
>( see http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/flash/91/chapter2_12.html )
That link has gone 404. This one is valid and is a better article anyway:
http://www2.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/sat/flash/90/chapter2_6.html
Leo Barhorst wrote:
>On the 14th I timed every observed flash:
>17.87 15.57 16.50 14.95 16.72 16.02 16.98 15.56 17.59 16.21 seconds.
>Also no distinct flash pattern; only some sort of long-short 'half' period.
>Pairing flash 2-9 gives: 32.07 31.67 33.00 33.15 seconds, also inconclusive.
>On the 27th I didn't time all flashes.
If you compare to my obs
15.16 12.15 15.08 11.14 14.80 12.68 15.13 11.23 15.21 11.64 5.72 8.19
11.58 13.36 12.39 13.81
Obviously Cosmos 1850 r has accelerated since your January observation and
the dispersion between the short and long periods has increased. Interesting.
Kurt Jonckheere replied:
>To report asymmetrical periods in the PPAS, Bram Dorreman and I
>have used the following format :
87- 49 B 97-05-10 04:04 JEV 185.5 1.0 7 26.5 =(14.66 + 11.83) asym
per
Great! Elegant and concise. Amazing what can be conveyed in that little
comment space. Thanks for the help.
-- jim
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