iridium 81 dud sat

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 23:45:47 EDT

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    I going to have to go into space, and kick iridium 81 back into proper orientation.
    
    I was predicted to have a mag -7 flare from it, at 23:33:16 pm EDT ( May 29 ) 3:33:17 UTC ( May 30
    ).
    
    Instead it got somewhere around mag 0, I would estimate.
    
    IRIDIUM 81
    1 25468U 98051B   04150.30318842 -.00000077  00000-0 -34533-4 0  2640
    2 25468  86.4001 213.8908 0002448  93.3007 266.8520 14.34216521299599
    
    I did catch the -5 iridium flare from iridium 56.
    
    Kevin
    
    44.6062 N
    75.6910 W
    
    
    	
    		
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