Today at around 5:24 EST or 10:24 UTC Nov 18, 2000 I saw a unid transit the moon. It only watched by mistake. I decide to look at the moon for awile, when I noticed a flash to the west of the moon, near the unlit limb. Then a few seconds later, it flashed on the moon's dark limb, which was slightly visible thanks to reflected light from the earth, or easthshine. I downloaded Alan's SATBASE.TLE file, and ran it through skymap. Nothing comes up around that time. The only other thing it could have been was a plane, but if it was then something is wrong with it. Since planes have stobe lights and lights on the wings, I would have seen them. But this mistery object, was only visible when there was a bright flash, through my binoculars. I have seen airplanes before, and it didn't behave like a airplane. It was moving slowly, such as a high altitude sat such as geo, gps and others. It was only visible when the was the bright flash. I went outside after noticing it, and didn't see any aircraft in the area. I was inside looking through a window, when I noticed the flashes, I saw two of them. So it must have been some type of sat, a flashing rocket or something with rotation. Wish I knew what I saw, as it was neat. Kevin Fetter ===== http://ca.geocities.com/kfetter 44.6062N -75.6910 W __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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