Here's follow-up to my previous message. As promised, I have checked 300 visible passes of Iridium flares I have at my comp (starting from August 2000) and have found 4 of them within several degrees from the Moon: Iridium 51 on Aug 21, 2000 (-4 m at my location and not too close) Iridium 64 on Jan 05, 2001 (+0 m, just passed by Moon 25 sec prior flare) Iridium 11 on Feb 02, 2001 (-8 m, yet between Jupiter and Saturn!!! Of course I was clouded out during this unique one...) Iridium 59 on Mar 02, 2001 (-4 m, but with Sun only at -3 deg "elevation" - otherwise probably the most impessive). Check out all plots with moments of flares marked with red circles: http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/moonirid.html Note: Moon's size on the plots is about 4 times larger than the real one. So the result is: out of 300 flares visible from my location no one happened over the Moon, but Mar 02, 2001 flare probably crossed the Moon somewhere 30-40 km due south. Somebody some day may witness a real transit. Den ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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