Re: Flashing high unid

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 05:23:09 EDT

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    At 08:18 PM 5/6/04 +0930, Tony wrote:
    
    >Ed, Against latest alldat.tle I get only poor matches against 
    >your observation
    >1. USA 5  15271 an old GPS satellite no longer synchronous so 
    >          I suppose its non-operational
    >2. 19755   an auxillary motor of a glosnass launch.
    >
    >However neither of them were heading towards west, but south.
    >latest elsets from OIG ( later than alldat.tle) are
    >
    >NAVSTAR 10 (USA 5)
    >1 15271U 84097A   04127.10012235  .00000087  00000-0  00000+0 0  9491
    >2 15271  61.8791 169.2939 0108275 187.2879 172.6408  1.92618491140749
    
    Tony, thank you very much!  I'm sure we can rule out the aux, 
    and in looking last night at the sky position again, and more 
    closely, and allowing for my usual difficulties with getting 
    positions, and running post-dictions, I believe that NAVSTAR 
    10 above is a good possibility, at least worth checking -- by 
    someone with a big enough telescope under a dark-enough sky!  
    But maybe we can get a pretty comparable pass before long and 
    have the luck of seeing it flash again -- if it was that one.
    
    BTW, my reference to its direction as 270 to 290 meant to
    the left.  I meant the direction of motion as in Quicksat,
    with zero being up, 90 right, 180 down, and 270 left.  As it 
    was in the southeast, this "270" meant it was moving to the 
    left, to the east.
    
    I'm way out of time to report on what we saw last night, but 
    we did not see 97-68B (25035).  Mike searched for a long time, 
    and I helped the last little while as well.
    
    We northern hemisphere folks appreciate your passing Comet
    2001 Q4 (NEAT) in our direction!  It's a good one!  (We here 
    in Austin are also glad to have had reasonably good weather 
    for it so far.  I never had a chance, with my 8x42, with 
    Comet Bradfield, due to the weather on the best mornings.)
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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