Gidday Jonathan
On 01-Jun-01, you wrote:
> Facts about Iridium:
> after sunset. You can see a magnitude -8 (half the brightness of the moon)
> flash lasting a second or two. It looks like an aircraft landing light
> pointed straight at you.
Oh dear, then what I told my daughter were Iridium were not. They
fasleh at about 1Hz right across the sky. I had the
idea that they flashed because they were
rotating and flat sides were flashing light as they moved across the
sky.
Regards
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Received on Thu May 31 2001 - 19:31:27 BST