iridium 11

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 Hi y'all -
 I tracked a pass of Iridium 11 this evening, and it sure looks like it's
having stability problems.  It was varying between magnitude 6 and 8 with a
period of about 1 second, but produced several naked eye flashes at irregular
intervals.  The brightest flash was magnitude -1, when the object was at the
first Quicksat predicted position below:
 1998 May 16  SatUT3 3 1051
 H  M  S Tim Al AziC Dir  Mag Dys F  Hgt Shd  Rng  R A  Dec Name
 5 14  9  .0 40 312  301  7.4   2 1  470 213  682  854 53.6 Iridium 11
 5 15 25  .0 48 270C 267  6.8   2 1  470  91  607 1032 28.2
 It looked very similar to Iridium 27.
 Cheers, Rich Keen
 Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, USA (39.877 N, 105.391 W, elevation 2728m)
 

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