Harald Edens <edens@weather-photography.com> writes >Can anyone look up or confirm over which area the sat "Delta 1 debris" >(1972-058CG / 07941) decayed, if it did yet? I heard several reports >from people in The Netherlands that they saw a bright (mag -6) fireball >around 18:15 UTC, Feb 19, with "several colors and sparks flying off". >Reports of directions however are scarce and the ones I saw don't >really match the trajectory of the sat, unless the angle of reentry was >very steep. But as far as I could see it was near or over Europe at >that time. I couldn't find the old TLE for it to look it up in a sky >program myself. If anyone knows more, or could send me its TLE from >Feb 17 or 18, that would be great. This object is still in orbit. The latest elset is: Landsat 1 Delta 1 deb CG 261 x 254 km 1 07941U 72058CG 03051.71882041 .01895898 00000-0 26215-2 0 5232 2 07941 98.3205 333.0775 0005250 154.8101 205.3907 16.05993729625651 and I predict decay for February 24 +/- 1 day. Alan -- Alan Pickup / COSPAR 2707: 55.8968N 3.1989W +208m (WGS84 datum) Edinburgh / SatEvo Home Page: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/ Scotland / Decay Watch: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ * ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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