(meteorobs) Satellite trio

[Thomas Dorman]

Hi. Bill
You are talking about the NOSS satellite cluster.Well
know by satellite observer.I observed a pass by NOSS
last week.Go back to Heavens above and go to Select
satellites from database and you can find more
information on these satellites..When the window comes
up input NOSS% for named satellites Hope this helps.
Regards
Thomas Dorman
Horizon City Texas

--- Bill Smith <BSmith at rchdc.org> wrote:

> Late Wed night (August 18 my time or the 19th UT)  I
> observed something
> rather strange in orbit.  I now know that these
> satellites are part of an
> experiment by the US Navy.  Here is what I saw and I
> wonder if anyone else
> has seen this - 
>  
> At 06:25, 19 August 2004, I was observing the sky
> for left over Persieds.
> Out of the North west (285 azimuth)  came three
> satellites in nearly a
> perfect triangle.
> The magnitude of each was about 3, and the
> brightness did not change until
> the objects entered the shadow of the Earth nearly
> overhead at about 
> 06:33 UT.  The color was somewhat golden and each
> object was about one
> degree apart.  I checked out Heavens Above to see if
> these were charted and
> they were not.
> >From the speed and where it entered the shadow, I
> would guess their altitude
> as about 450 miles.  The three objects entered the
> shadow at the same time
> and hence must have been nearly the same altitude. 
> I read that this is some
> experiment the Navy is doing to track ships at sea
> and not some formation of
> alien craft!  LOL! 
>  
> I wonder how many of you out there have seen this
> same thing?  This was my
> second time.
>  
> Bill R. Smith
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