I got you Dec06 unid flashing geo sat!!!

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2007 - 10:32:37 EDT

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    Oh ya!!!!
    
    I got you you sat, Ha Ha Ha: )
    
    I went looking for that unid flashing sat, I discovered on Christmas eve last year
    
    http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Dec-2006/0267.html
    
    I have observed the sat, very close to the predicted area, and close to the flash period I observed of it.
    
    So a successfully recovery.
    
    A big thanks to Mike Mccants for his help with search tle.
    
    Search tle used, sat so close to where predicted by this
    
    UNID
    1 96113U          07090.73680337  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    06
    2 96113   2.0975  13.4597 0015210 271.7894  88.0485  0.98170884    09
    
    Flashing observed between 3:02 to 4:40 UTC. Flashes where at least Mag 7 and brighter, some looked to be naked eye range. So flashes for quite awhile
    
    I notice the flash period was shorter, then when I observed it in Dec
    
    For example at around 4:07:28 UTC, the flash peiod was only around 37 seconds. Not sure for what part of the total flashing time, it had that shorter observed flash period
    
    A great way to end march:)
    
    Kevin
    
    44.6062 N
    75.6910 W
    
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