If it happens during those days, it looks like it will be sometime after 6:00 AM local time on one of the appointed mornings. Here's a link: http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=36514&lat=34.76305&lng=-120.5983&loc=Vandenberg+AFB&alt=0&tz=PST The coordinates are probably not exactly right, since I used the map function to get the site. There's a ground-track feature for any given pass. Currently the highest pass is on December 4. Since sunrise is just before 7:00 AM, I'm wondering if they might need to boost the orbit a little to get it to land in daylight, which I would assume they would want to do. But maybe landing 30 minutes or so before sunrise would be acceptable. Thanks to the person who asked me the question that prompted me to consider this. I wouldn't have thought of it on my own, since I'm nowhere near California. Good luck to early risers in California! Oh, if it were to land as late as December 7, there is a visible pass over Hawaii, so maybe the re-entry plasma trail might be visible from there (?), in such a case. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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