Tony Beresford asked: > I just got this e-mail from a member of the local astronomical > society Martin Lewicki (mlewicki@dove.net.au). Does this > qualify as the > earliest Iridium flare?. Probably not the earliest Iridium flare, but perhaps the earliest reported sighting. > There were no references to Iridium flares > in the June or July 97 output from Seesat. Due to a mixup, I > lost the Aug97-dec97 e-mail archives. On 2 Aug 97, Leigh Palmer reported his flare observation of 1 Aug 97, which at first seemed to have come from Cosmos 1953 (88050A / 19210): http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0013.html On 15 Aug 97, Brian Hunter saw another flare, which he connected with an Iridium, and which led him to find that an Iridium had been in the same vicinity as Leigh Palmer's flare of 1 Aug 97: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1997/0239.html Martin Lewicki's report elsewhere, of flares on 19 Jun 97 may be the earliest reported sighting of Iridium flares. Perhaps someone should use deja.com to check for possible earlier sightings that may have been reported to the various USENET astronomy and space newsgroups. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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