At 11:18 PM 2/3/00 +1100, James wrote:
>Hello everybody
>
>One for all those satellite people out there -
>Tonight (3/2/00) at about 9pm AEDT (1000UT) I saw a 2/3 mag satellite going
>from due west to due east.
Hi James.
If the satellite that you saw was at the "top" of its orbit and its
inclination to the Equator is about equal to your latitude then they will at
times pass over your location going from West to East.
It would help a lot if you would give the location of your observation.
Bob