On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Alan Pickup wrote: > Object: #27532 = 02- 45 B = Progress M1-9 Soyuz rocket About 30 minutes ago I saw this zoom by. It was varying in the mag +2..+3 range with one flash to +0. It passed into shadow a little after culmination. About 15 sec after it vanished from view I witnessed what obviously was an Iridium flare. I quickly determined it was Iridium 77. From this I think the Soyuz rocket was a little early with respect to the elset below > Progress M1-9 Soyuz r 164 x 154 km > 1 27532U 02045B 02270.04584435 .14475135 16631+0 70381-3 0 90093 > 2 27532 51.6201 261.3664 0007846 72.9755 287.1104 16.42500294 213 Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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