Cosmos 2326 reentry watch

ROB MATSON (ROBERT.D.MATSON@cpmx.saic.com)
7 Nov 1997 16:20:51 -0800

The current rev takes Cosmos 2326 up the Atlantic coastline a couple
hundred miles off shore, but close enough to be visible (if the satellite
is "glowing").  Southern Florida, northern North Carolina, Cape Cod
and eastern Maine are closest.  The satellite passes over Nova Scotia
at 0:16 UTC 8 November.

Adjusting the times for the next rev (which is predicted to be the final
one) based on Alan's latest elements:

1:36 UTC  Landfall near Manzanillo, Mexico
1:38:30  Laredo, Texas
1:39  San Antonio
1:39:30  (south of Dallas, TX)
1:40:30  southeast corner of Oklahoma
1:41 northwest corner of Arkansas
1:41:30  center of Missouri
1:42  Quincy, Illinois (border with northern Missouri)
1:42:30  northwest of Peoria, Illinois
1:43 Milwaukee
1:44  Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan/Ontario
1:44:30  Chapleau, Ontario
1:45  Fraserdale, Ontario
1:45:30  southern edge of Hudson Bay, east of Moose Factory

If Cosmos 2326 can just survive one more orbit, L.A. is right on
the flightline, with landfall somewhere around San Clemente, CA.

--Rob