28872 is due to decay around 0100 UTC today. As this is publicly available from Calsky I can re;lay that, but owing to Space-Track's policy I cannot go into further detail of predictions there. However http://www.re-entrynews.com is showing a decay time of 0618 plus or minus 4 hours which would means that a predicted daylight pass here at 0541 will be of great interest should it not have already reentered. We also have a daylight pass in under an hour from my writing this but it is probably too early and it is quite cloudy. It is fortunate that these public sites provide information because otherwise should a decay occur here I would be prevented by SpaceTrack policy from telling anyone what it was: no doubt the event would cause some consternation and puzzlement, as a previous decay did over Australia.(but that is old ground now and they aren't likely to take much notice of the fact that it is counterproductive!) Robert Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.261S 147.948E ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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