At 12:35 24-10-97 -0500, you wrote: >One should not assume that all Iridiums will flare per Rob/Randy's >programs. Rather assume that Iridium 21, 11, 27, and 36 which are not in Maybe we should keep a list with operational Iridium satellites. I think Motorola will de-orbit the Iridium satellites at the end of there lifetime. But these four satellites probably can't be de-orbited since they can't be manoeuvred in their operational orbit. So we will have to deal with functional and non-functional Iridium satellites. It should be better to delete Iridium 21,11,27 and 36 from your Iridium flare prediction file if you want to have a successful Iridium flare prediction. Greetings, Tristan Cools tcools@nic.INbe.net BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites Observing at: Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N Rijckevelde: 3.2867E/51.2054N Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N