Raduga 33 should decay in about 3 days. Current elset from OIG: Raduga 33 1 23794U 96010A 04122.90435389 .46856627 10716-4 44697-2 0 4812 2 23794 47.7409 127.7901 3577107 90.5091 315.7923 8.55374432 71873 The inclination is 48 and the perigee is at latitude north 48 in the Earth's shadow. However, it is making evening passes for latitudes between north 25 and about north 38 (shadow entry). I have "discrepancies" between the mean motion and eccentricity on the Spacecom elsets compared to my numerical integration program. That program was used to generate this elset (2 revs later than the above): Raduga 33 (int3) 1 23794U 96010A 04123.13300244 .48880275 00000-0 43801-2 0 01 2 23794 47.7557 127.3671 3494867 91.1367 308.2948 8.71976339 04 The 03:27 pass this evening is predicted to be about 45 seconds later by this elset. So I am interested in an approximate positional observation some time in the next few days in order to see if that resolves the "discrepancy". Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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