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Old October 19th 11, 10:56 PM posted to sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Patty Winter
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Default Same satelite twice???


In article , DougD wrote:

To add to this, it could have also been a pair of satellites from a group,
such as the NOSS, which can be spotted one, two or three in a group,
or sometimes one after the other.


Ah, right, I'd forgotten about NOSS.

I've seen two Iridii a minute apart, same path.


The change in brightness could
be from all sorts of reasons, the first that comes to mind is even though
it was only 15 minutes of difference, your location relative to the Sun,
which is what is illuminating the object that you are seeing have changed
over that amount of time.


Or perhaps even more likely, the second piece was smaller than the
first?

Forgot to mention this to the original poster, but on Heavens-Above
(http://www.heavens-above.com), it's easy to plug one's location into
the site and find out what went over at a specific time. You can even
back up a few days by using the "Prev" link.


Patty