Re: Season of multiple Iridium flares
Sankaranarayanan K V (sankar@miel.mot.com)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:31:33 +0530
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:37:05PM -0800, Matson, Robert wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that low latitude (~34 deg north) locations are seeing
> a lot of Iridium flares over the next few days in the mornings.
> For example, southern California will have 10! flares on Saturday
> morning: 74, 72, 75, 82?, 17, 14A?, 70, 73?, 62, and 63.
>
My latitude is 13 N (Bangalore).
I have also observed that recently there are a lot of bright flares in
the mornings. This week there are 11 flares (8 morning + 3 evening) --
(-7, 2), (-5, 1), (-3, 2), (-2, 5), (-1, 1) being (mag, number) pairs.
Of course, this cannot be compared with 10 flares on a single
morning. But there is definitely an increase from the average of 3 to 4
flares per week in the past.
Further, almost all evening flares are in the south, alt ~30 degrees.
Any reasons, why?
Regards
Sankar
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