Re: Decay watch: 2000 Mar 2

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 15:32:08 PST

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    I (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
    
    ] If it lasts long enough, there's a southwest USA pass of decaying
    ] Globalstar Soyuz Rk tonight about 2:30-40 March 4 UTC.  At last
    ] report available to me, decay predictions were:
    ]
    ] http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
    
    Mea culpa!  The pass time above was one hour late due to my using a 
    several months old control file set to Daylight time instead of 
    Standard time.  It should have read 1:30-40 March 4 UTC.
    
    Since then OIG, Alan Pickup, and Harro Zimmer have all made newer
    predictions for a somewhat later decay of the orbit, and the actual
    time of the above pass is now a couple of minutes later.
     
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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