I just noticed the two newly catalogued 2002-003 objects. One of them must be Fairing 2, which has a flash period of about eight seconds, just like its twin: Internatnl Designator CatNo Common Name Source LaunchDate ------------ ----- ------------------------- ------ ---------- 2002-003B 27368 DASH/VEP-3 JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003C 27369 H-2A R/B JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003D 28237 H-2A DEB JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003E 28243 H-2A DEB JPN 2002/02/04 Here are the first three catalogued objects as of Feb-March 2002: 2002-003A 27367 MDS-1 JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003B 27368 DASH JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003C 27369 VEP-3 JPN 2002/02/04 A week later they recatalogued two of them: 2002-003A 27367 MDS 1 JPN 2002/02/04 2002-003C 27369 VEP 3 JPN 2002/02/04 We have been using 27369/2002-03C for Fairing 1, which is really bright on a perigee pass: http://satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2003/0078.html Fairing 2 will be nearly identical. Mike got both of them in one telescopic field of view one June evening a couple of years ago. At that time Fairing 2 was given the number 90012: http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2002/0033.html May get to do some observing this evening. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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