On 22/12/2011 17:19, Allen Thomson wrote: > Google Earth indicates there are only a couple of places in Namibia > that could be, either in the vicinity of 17.5 S, 12.3 E or 18.0 S, > 22.1 E. Looking at the ground in the picture accompanying the article, > I'd guess it's the first of those. So did anything reenter there in > November? The only non-debris candidate I can find in November is ERS 5 (#579 = 1963-14B), also known as DASH 1. Spacetrack reported the re-entry on November 11 at 04:01 +/- 40 minutes at location 51.3° S, 346.6° E. However, using Mike McCants's Latlong program and the final published elset, I get the following groundtrack about one orbit earlier: UTC (Nov 11) Latitude Longitude 02:37:00 19.3S 12.2E 02:37:30 17.3S 12.3E 02:38:00 15.3S 12.4E Season's Greetings to all SeeSaters Alan -- Alan Pickup / Edinburgh / Scotland / COSPAR 2707: 55.8968N 3.1989W +208m (WGS84 datum) _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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