Great story! > P.S. I wonder if any one has ever coordinated a cell phone > communications > relay in which one person then another let the other know when the > flare of > one iridium satellite has reached him. For instance, I could tell > from the > info collected at two sites input into Heavens-Above that a > particular flare > moved about 20 miles in 7 seconds! One person may say "Thar she > blows!" > then a few seconds later the other person many miles away could do > the same. > This could also work for the Space Station but at points in > different > states. Just a thought. That's an interesting idea. If you could coordinate several observers, and get some quality observations, and do this several times, with mathematical analysis you probably could get a detailed spectral "picture" of such a satellite. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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