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From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 16 2005 - 05:22:02 EDT

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    I did not get a match for the following object, which was about 
    +6 magnitude, steady, eastbound.  The positions are in Sagitta 
    and Delphinus.  The last position, a very rough one, appeared 
    to be about where it disappeared into the Earth's shadow.  I 
    may have clicked a couple of seconds late due to not realizing 
    it immediately, and I may have underestimated the uncertainty 
    of that position.  Station 9730 is BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m.
    
    For what they might be worth, here are positions in IOD format
    (with 98765 being completely arbitrary of course, and 05-697A
    being day 197 plus 500, object A, of this year):
    
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041348500 17 35 1924500+165000 17 S+060 03       
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041405500 17 35 1936300+163000 17 S+060 03       
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041452800 17 35 2014280+152000 17 S+060 03       
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041519500 17 35 2034850+140000 17 S+060 03       
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041547500 17 35 2055690+132000 17 S+060 03       
    98765 05 697A   9730 P 20050716041613500 17 35 2112000+128000 57 E+990 01       
    
    IOD format: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html
    
    Before the first point above it crossed with Globalstar M04
    (25622, 99-004B) in southeastern Hercules -- which I had not
    been looking for, either.
    
    The sky was partly cloudy, with waxing gibbous Moon of course,
    but this was seen pretty opposite the Moon with not much cloud 
    interference.  We had lightning to the north for much of the
    evening, with some very bright sky flashes, but there was very 
    little thunder, and that only at the beginning of the session.
    
    Of course I wonder if it might be the same as either of the 
    other two west-to-east ones seen here recently.  (Mike 
    concluded that those two were two different objects.)
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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