Three PPAS objects

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 06:12:25 EST

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    16012, Cosmos 1680 Rk
    85- 79 B 02-03-04 01:57:17   EC  159.1 2.0  12 13.3  
    
    12445, Intelsat 502 Rk
    80- 98 B 02-03-04 02:03:17.7 EC  122.0 0.3   8 15.25  mag +3.5->inv
    
    Recently I've been trying to time 00694, Atlas Centaur 2, the 
    brightest very old object, which is tumbling slowly.  Its 
    maxima are broad, so it's not easy to know when to click the 
    stopwatch.  Here's what I got from two different evenings, 59 
    and 57 seconds, with four cycles each night:
    63- 47 A 02-02-28 01:29:28.6 EC  234.9 6.0   4 59     mag +3.5->inv
    63- 47 A 02-03-04 02:13:29.9 EC  228.4 8.0   4 57     mag +3.0->inv
    
    Mike McCants found some flaring geosynchs last night.  Two of 
    them, two PanAmSats I think, were very close together.  He 
    also recovered the Milstar 5 Centaur (27169, 02-001B) after 
    three weeks.
    
    STS-109 & HST coming in a few minutes, followed a couple of
    minutes later by ISS. 
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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