If you look at the mean motion (15.9475xxxx), it is peobably subject to more drag forces than typical. That may be part of it. Alan Pickup had this object on a recent decay listing (decay about 10 April). You may want to keep observing it. Objects close to decay move really quick as you noticed. Ron Lee > >On Monday evening I observed this VERY fast-moving object. > >Actually, I was lucky to have caught sight of it, because it was >approximately 50 seconds EARLY, according to the prediction generated by >SatSpy v2.5 (3/16/98 19:49:56). > >If I am correct, my elset is only a few days old. > >Can someone help me understand what has caused the error in the prediction? > >Iridm 15 Dlt r >1 24874U 97034F 98071.68636191 .00452083 00000-0 77857-3 0 2614 >2 24874 82.7069 294.2950 0091361 155.6367 204.9969 15.94758062 38325 > > >Thanks, > >Gregory May >Rubbermaid MIS >tandemcaptain@worldnet.att.net > >