See my message http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2010/0208.html My identification was given in a message Apr.25, I received it back from satobs, but it doesn't seem to hav made it to the archives! >...At 22:31:14 I saw three bright flashes, matching the characteristics > of my Apr.19 obs (but fainter) > The first one was above Polaris, the last one to the right, > so it was most certainly NB. On Apr..19 the closest match > was Topex/poseidon, last night a very unlikely Cosmos rocket. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Vandebergh" <ralf.vandebergh@home.nl> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:08 PM Subject: Topex tumbling observation? > Hi all, > > I observed on April 21 a high satellite with unregular tumbling > (7x50 bino) it moved SW-NE in direction of Alkaid (Eta)Ursae Majoris. > Listed up to mag 6 with this direction and that time was only > oceanograhic sat Topex from 1992. I'm aware that it stopped functioning > in 2006. Is there any data available to witness its tumbling? > > thanks, > Ralf > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100504/6e4fc822/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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