Ed Cannon posted: >Observed CBERS 1 (25940) tumbling about every 1.36 second. >Here's a PPAS report: > >99-057 A 07-04-29 01:57:07 EC 84.2 0.2 62 1.358 +4.0->i It was quite spectacular. After Ed said "What is that?!", I started observing it. I saw a couple of very bright flashes at an altitude of only 20 degrees in the north near the end of the pass. The tumbles and flashes seemed quite orange to me. The mean motion changed from 14.344842 to 14.343946 (a decrease in mean motion of 0.000900) in 2.5 days from 07049.5 to 07052.0. There were some smaller fluctuations for a few days after that, but the current mean motion seems stable. Mike McCants Austin, TX BCRC 30.3N, 97.9W ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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