A Pegasus fragment decaying tonight, two early Thursday (?) and the SL-6 rocket #24801 have good visibilities. The fragments are all listed as having RCS values of 0.032-0.039 sq.m. in June SSR, so except for flashes they may be around +10 at 1000 km. 24366 94029PT Pegasus deb PT should be passing in sunlight tonight at 21:41 UT over the British Isles (look up, Russell!) on its last orbit ? Aug.04.88 Pegasus deb PT SatEvo 208 x 199 km 1 24366U 94029PT 97216.88219035 .91773195 46389+1 29901-1 0 94141 2 24366 81.7871 109.3241 0006829 256.3377 103.5862 16.26048685172622 Around 00 UT Thursday morning, 24202 94029KD and 24395 94029QY will exit shadow at its southern apex (-81) and enter shadow southbound at around 50N at 22:15 LST (local standard time, #24202) and 55N at 23:05 LST (#24395) #24801 appears to be sunlit for the entire orbit! NB 26N 18:42 LST 39N 19:28 LST sunset ? 52N 20:31 LST 60N 22:10 LST SB 60N 01:35 LST 50N 03:16 LST 35N 04:22 LST sunrise? 28N 05:00 LST perigee (Daytime on more southern latitudes) SatEvo for tonight: C 2342 SL-6 r1 5.0 0.0 0.0 5.5 d 232 x 187 km 1 24801U 97022B 97216.87943651 .02002302 19883-2 65159-3 0 91678 2 24801 62.7626 230.7416 0034178 118.5256 241.8189 16.23861950 13154 Pegasus deb QY 412 x 371 km 1 24395U 94029QY 97216.98415366 .03695056 53959-2 47116-1 0 93736 2 24395 81.9567 136.2569 0030298 28.8967 331.2705 15.58707577 61252 Pegasus deb KD 413 x 371 km 1 24202U 94029KD 97216.99236739 .02971529 34716-2 37889-1 0 94423 2 24202 81.7949 120.4841 0030945 3.4636 356.5568 15.58682208 86819 The Pegasus fragment elset bases for these were from 97214, so the uncertainty can be expected to be +/- 3 min for these two, +/- 10 min for #24366? Look for newer elsets on SeeSat-L or http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -- bjorn@tt-tech.se (office) +46-8-59095783 -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) +46-8-7428086 -- -- 59.22371 N, 18.22857 E AND member of : -- -- http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle SeeSat-L -- ------------------------------------------------------------