Wayne Halley's "Low and Bright!!" object, and a similar sighting in England the night before that was posted to the newsgroup by Paul Telco, appear to me to have been the soon-to-decay Cosmos 808 Rk (08755, 76-24B). (Alan Pickup's SatEvo Decay List #75 predicts that it will decay on May 5.) This is one to watch, if you have a pass! Tuesday night (early Wednesday UTC), one orbit after Wayne's pass, this one caught me by surprise even though I had a timely prediction -- which happened to be on the next page of my printouts. This object was definitely very bright and, due to its low height above the surface, very fast! (I'm kind of wondering about the intrinsic magnitude of this object [and other Vostoks?], since its observed magnitude of about +0 on my pass was at least a full magnitude brighter than predicted, on a very-near-zenith pass.) For those who don't know -- for keeping up with objects with rapidly changing elsets, there are Alan Pickup's posts here, as well as his elset files. For all decaying objects he has: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle/dklist.tle or http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle/dklist.zip For selected objects -- major decayers, "special", and newly launched: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle/select.tle or http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle/select.zip Also, Mike McCants has elset files, updated daily, for "high-drag" and for recently launched objects: ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/highdrag.zip (< 1K) ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/highdrg2.zip (~ 20K) ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/thirty.zip And of course Mike also posts the weekly OIG reports here. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA