Based on information from spaceflight now posted at: http://spaceflightnow.com/mir/010314date/ And the most recent tle: MIR 1 16609U 86017A 01074.62718413 .00476796 13300-3 39446-3 0 7028 2 16609 51.6364 291.0988 0006228 146.2761 325.9662 16.13277283862077 As the tle will be subject to change updates will be daily and sooner as the deorbit date approaches. MAG will maintain a webpage for updates at: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/3070/mirwatch.htm Last pass over Memphis will be daylight at 3:00 p.m. Mar. 21st just above the sun, it will not be visible. -Around 7:00 p.m. Mar 21st CST (01:00 GMT Mar 22nd), first thruster firings of the station will Take place. The station will be over Mid India at this time. -Around 8:27 CST Mar. 21st (02:27 GMT Mar 22nd) The Progress "booster" engines will fire. The station will be over the mouth of the Persian Gulf. -Around 1:00 a.m. CST Mar. 22nd (7:00 GMT Mar. 22nd) final engine firings from Mir and The Progress booster will fire, reentry and disintegration should be complete by 1:30 CST in the South Pacific east of Australia. The station will be over a point in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Corsica for final engine firings. The final trajectory will take the station over an area South of Japan and to the final splashdown area noted above in the south Pacific. Clear and Dark Skies------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Nix | Raleigh Springs #8936 35.2131N 89.9354W 90m Midsouth Astronomy Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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