I spoke too soon... >The final (so far) OIG elset for this is: >Cosmos 2343 r 161 x 142 km >1 24806U 97024B 97140.42880913 .11929049 78441-5 25197-3 0 361 >2 24806 64.8478 73.0661 0014865 64.5129 295.7807 16.45491572 803 ..in fact, one late elset appeared... Cosmos 2343 r 140 x 119 km 1 24806U 97024B 97140.61065422 .20778430 80540-5 12013-3 0 375 2 24806 64.8497 72.3527 0016083 57.4230 302.7904 16.53768130 831 which shows that it did not decay at May 20.586 as I estimated. I'm skeptical of the mean motion and apogee which appear too low and too high respectively. That final (I'm pretty sure) orbit took it towards/over Europe and onwards to pass S of Japan. I now suspect that it decayed somewhere along that arc - let's say May 20.62, the time predicted by Bjoern earlier that day. Alan -- Alan Pickup | COSPAR site 2707: 55d53m48.7s N 3d11m51.2s W 156m asl Edinburgh | Home: alan@wingar.demon.co.uk +44 (0)131 477 9144 Scotland | Royal Observatory: A.Pickup@roe.ac.uk +44 (0)131 668 8224