Raduga 21

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 08:14:18 EST

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    As reported by Ed Cannon in July 2001,  Raduga 21 (18631, 87-100A) has a strange flash 
    pattern.
    
    Ref:
    http://satobs.org/seesat/Jul-2001/0300.html
    
    Flash times
    UTC 25 Feb 2003
    ------------
    02:25:57.31
    02:26:28.77  split=00:31.5
    02:27:52.71  split=01:23.9
    02:28:24.68  split=00:32.0
    02:29:45.83  split=01:21.2
    02:30:17.24  split=00:31.4
    
    Nearly all of the flashes seemed to be short, double flashes about +8.5 mag
    
    The Hubble made a nice +3.5 mag pass in the south about 20 deg above the horizon 
    at 00:28UTC 25 Feb.
    
    Non-Obs
    OPS 6393 (FLTSATCOM 3)(11669, 80004A) 00:21 to 00:35 UTC
    GORIZONT 21 (20923, 90094A) 01:10 to 01:20 UTC
    
    -- 
    Cheers,
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    http://www.howardastro.org/
    
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