In a message dated 10/13/00 9:42:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DeHBeaver0@aol.com writes: > While setting up the telescope for ISS/92, I saw a bright, fast moving and > tumbling flasher: SW--> NE; when I saw it, was already heading towards the > NE, precisely 7:00pm EDT. Tumbled rapidly. At brigtest, was -1.5, at > dimest, > was about .5. Fast moving, so my guess is that its near reentry. Any > guesses? > I honestly can't believe that we saw the same UNID. I noted an UNID this evening passing SW->NE at 7:00pm EDT (23:00UTC). It was about a 0 mag object. The closest object I could find is Cosmos 1181 Rk (11804, 80039B). I'm not entirely happy with the match. [04976, 70-025GW] is a possibility too. That appears to be a fragment from the Nimbus 4 launch. 1970-025-GW - EM 1 04976U 70025GW 00282.99887906 .00022444 00000-0 51732-2 0 8173 2 04976 99.6514 295.0635 0045991 298.2428 61.3678 14.54660140559545 I had a good obs and did not see any flashing. I remember not hearing any jet engine sounds either. Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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