Re: Decay Watch: Molniya 3-16
Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:24:02 -0700
At 04:11 PM 1/29/98 +1000, you wrote:
>At 21:19 28/01/98 -0700, Ron Lee wrote:
>>This is the latest elset:
>>
>>Molniya 3-16 22359 x 111 km
>>1 12512U 81054A 98027.94735529 .08737860 21006-2 37463-2 0 90477
>>2 12512 62.1361 92.1324 6315488 272.5557 21.6216 3.71443257123551
>>
>>It is over a day old. Has it been LOST already? Also note that
>>the perigee is 111 km instead of around 60 km. Is anyone in the
>>southern hemisphere able to observe it closer to perigee?
>I have passes at ranges of 2000Km around 12:00 UT Jan 29 Ron (tonite)
>Weather looks OK , will be using 7x50 binocs.
>Tony Beresford
I just looked for it at 06:12 UT on 29 Jan. Missed it even though
looking +/- 5 minutes. I ran Satevo with the elset and came up with
the following for 29.5 UT:
Molniya 3-16 20645 x 111 km
1 12512U 81054A 98029.50457832 .09822878 25698-2 37252-2 0 90471
2 12512 61.9706 91.5285 6127116 272.6190 23.2120 4.00289491123613
No guarantee it is of the quality of Alan's.
Ron Lee