Object 99001 was found last night near the predicted position. Updated elset: 1 99001U 00004.99370000 .00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 03 2 99001 10.6200 38.8820 0036000 66.5000 293.5000 .98678900 01 Last night I observed 2 bright flashes separated by about 7.8 seconds and 2 faint flashes. Tonight (Jan. 6 about 3:10UT) I observed 3 bright flashes separated by 3.9 and 3.6 seconds. The brightest flashes were to about 7th magnitude and were easily seen in my 3 inch telescope. The faint flashes were about 10th or 11th magnitude. The period was measured at 21.37 seconds last night compared to 21.39 in November and 21.46 a year ago. Observations from BCRC: 30.3 North, 97.8 West. Object 97 68B is making spectacular evening passes over the US. It is a couple of minutes late compared to the elset: Centaur Rk 8.6 3.0 0.0 3.5 v 20 1 25035U 97068B 99362.87168298 .00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 05 2 25035 64.4740 240.0053 6930690 260.4780 99.5220 2.02937500 01 Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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