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Article: Perseus flasher: satellite glints. (artificial satellite glints may cause flashes of light coming from direction of constellation Perseus)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- June 20, 1987
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Perseus flasher: Satellite glints
About a year ago, a group of Canadian astronomers reportedstrange flashes of light coming from the direction of the constellation Perseus (SN: 8/23/86, p. 117). In a period of about two years approximately three dozen such bursts of light had been recorded. There are objects out somewhere in the cosmos that flash from time to time in other kinds of radiation, X-rays and gamma rays particularly. If any of the light flashes should happen to come from the same sources as the gammas and X-rays, the light flashes might contribute a good deal to understanding the astrophysics of the apparently extremely energetic processes that ...