Obs of object 99001

From: Mike McCants (mikem@fc.net)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 21:56:43 PST

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    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
    
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