(meteorobs) Satellite trio

[Robert J. Gardner]

Interestingly enough I saw these three satellites in a weather satellite 
image at;
    http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Oxnard/javaLinks/animation.4km.vis.html
 on only one occasion. At that time they were off the Coast of San Diego 
California.

Bill Smith 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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