Shuttle/Mir/Progress/Soyuz

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Hi Jake,

Meant to send you a reply about the Shuttle/Mir/Progress flybys on
Friday night in the L.A. area, but ran out of time over the weekend.
I can tell you without a doubt that Progress was immediately following
Mir.  Soyuz TM-27 did not fly over until about 25 minutes later, and it was
probably a very difficult naked eye object.  I'm not aware of anyone who
saw it (I didn't happen to look for it -- I was on the road at the time).

As for the object trailing STS-89, this was a coincidence of timing.  It
was Cosmos 100 R/B, which culminated at about 2:33:35 UT at around
azimuth 119, elev 55 from your location.  Cosmos 100 R/B's track
intersected the track of STS-89 (which had already passed) at
2:34:35 UT, in about the location in the sky where STS-89 had
disappeared into shadow.

Basically the same thing happened for Joe Dellinger in Tulsa on the
previous orbit.  I sent him a message this past weekend identifying his
first pair as STS-89 and Cosmos 100 R/B.

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