Tonight's pass of this venerable Centaur was significantly lower in the sky, just above tops of buildings, and tomorrow night's even moreso, so it is about to go out of range from here, just as it's getting really near to decay. Aerospace Corp. now has a page for it, with it predicted to decay ascending off the coast of west Africa on Dec. 5. http://www.reentrynews.com/12908.html What thoughts does anyone have on the imminent decay of Koronas F (26873 01-032A), which the first site below says weighs about two tons? http://coronas.izmiran.ru/F/spacecraft http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/logs/2001/2001-032a_koronas-f_sumpub.shtml (Sorry about that second link, almost certainly broken.) The first Telstar 401 (93-077A, 22927) flash was at about 0:59 UTC (6:59 PM local time), and this time I somehow managed to see eight of them, from the UT Austin campus. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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