A friend of mine reported observing a satellite with a tail about a degree long this evening at about 01:50-01:58 UT (Oct 6) from Tucson Arizona which I identified as Atlantis, presumably just after a water dump. I missed it by about 3 or 4 minutes (DRAT!), looking for some other satellites just after that. I did catch a low pass of Mir at about 02:09 UT as it passed east (in direction, west on the sky) of Ursa Major, under Polaris and behind the 4-meter Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak (I was on the Spacewatch dome at the time). And while I've got you all on the line, I also managed to spot 20625 Cosmos 2082 R/B, 21610 ERS-1 R/B, 21987 EUVE (at about magnitude 3.5), 11080 Nimbus 7 (which I noticed just south of beta Peg at magnitude about 3.0 and faded rapidly to invisible over the next 60 seconds or so), and 19531 NOAA 11 (magnitude 7-8 in binocs). Jim. Jim Scotti Lunar & Planetary Laboratory jscotti@lpl.arizona.edu University of Arizona 520/621-2717 Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/