Like Mike McCants, I lean toward an explanation that likely SPACECOM is now releasing elsets for a different, or new, object, but using the catalog number and COSPAR id of an operational object. As pointed out last year in my "WARNING" message, this is a very difficult type of confusion to handle. People will have to purge their files of elsets like those shown below as "New, from OIG", or run special, separate predictions, if they want to have a chance to view the original object (assuming she is still on course) shown below as "Last good elset". Conversely, it seems that Alan Pickup's decay predictions may soon be needed for "New, from OIG". Observations are badly needed to help resolve the ambiguity. "Last good elset" didn't show up in "deep search" predictions for my location tonight. Perhaps in the Southern Hemisphere? Or far North? A careful observation of a bright glint of a normal character from "Last good elset" would go a long way toward confirming the "misidentification" hypothesis. Equally, it would be wonderful to know how bright the "New, from OIG" object is. It is ironic that just as observations are most needed, the usual tools and procedures experience difficulties. Murphy's what?? Cheers. Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- New, from OIG: IRIDIUM 48 1 25107U 97082D 99103.00495892 .02386497 00000-0 21460+0 0 2905 2 25107 86.3956 149.8565 0044142 336.1933 23.6939 14.91443617 68719 IRIDIUM 48 1 25107U 97082D 99102.93785409 .02403731 00000-0 21749+0 0 2891 2 25107 86.3960 149.8891 0043689 336.1246 23.7625 14.91182322 68703 IRIDIUM 48 1 25107U 97082D 99102.87074221 .02346858 00000-0 21475+0 0 2888 2 25107 86.3976 149.9243 0041960 333.8877 26.0291 14.90865740 68690 IRIDIUM 48 1 25107U 97082D 99102.53500573 .02123713 00000-0 20105+0 0 2876 2 25107 86.3990 150.0790 0040177 335.5690 24.3767 14.89307669 68640 IRIDIUM 48 1 25107U 97082D 99102.13165883 .01932700 00000-0 19174+0 0 2869 2 25107 86.4011 150.2646 0040122 337.8921 22.0639 14.87754062 68586 Last good elset for Iridium 48: Iridium 48 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 780 x 775 km 1 25107U 97082D 99086.69162521 -.00000018 00000-0 -13567-4 0 2489 2 25107 86.4037 156.9570 0003287 61.1570 298.9954 14.34216903 66335