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Re: (meteorobs) Satellite triangle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce McCurdy" <bmccurdy@telusplanet.net>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 5:09 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Satellite triangle
> Bert Matous wrote:
>
> > At 311am I got an unusual 3 satellite (I think!) triangular formation
> > from SSW to NNE almost overhead, not a perfect triangle with the
> > trailer about 2 degrees back from echeloned 1 degree apart front
> > runners. Are these a military satellite group?? Not bright enough
> > for the space station and maybe accompanying craft, is it? I would
> > love to hear input on this.
> >
> I'm no satellite expert, but I once saw a pass of an arrangement like
> this while in the company of one. So I think what you saw was a NOSS
Triad,
> which is indeed military in origin. I believe the intent is accurate
spying
> using triangulation. On the occasion I saw them they were all three naked
> eye, perhaps mag 4.5-5 which my friend said was unusual, they're more
> typically binocular targets. Because the three were moving in formation,
I
> was more than once fooled into thinking they were stationary and it was
the
> stars they passed that appeared to be moving.
>
> regards, Bruce
>
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