Re: Decay Watch: Molniya 3-16

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:24:02 -0700

At 04:11 PM 1/29/98 +1000, you wrote:
>At 21:19 28/01/98 -0700, Ron Lee wrote:
>>This is the latest elset:
>>
>>Molniya 3-16                                     22359 x 111 km
>>1 12512U 81054A   98027.94735529  .08737860  21006-2  37463-2 0 90477
>>2 12512  62.1361  92.1324 6315488 272.5557  21.6216  3.71443257123551
>>
>>It is over a day old.  Has it been LOST already?   Also note that
>>the perigee is 111 km instead of around 60 km.    Is anyone in the 
>>southern hemisphere able to observe it closer to perigee?
>I have passes at ranges of 2000Km around 12:00 UT Jan 29 Ron (tonite)
>Weather looks OK , will be using 7x50 binocs.
>Tony Beresford


I just looked for it at 06:12 UT on 29 Jan.  Missed it even though 
looking +/- 5 minutes.  I ran Satevo with the elset and came up with
the following for 29.5 UT:

Molniya 3-16                                     20645 x 111 km
1 12512U 81054A   98029.50457832  .09822878  25698-2  37252-2 0 90471
2 12512  61.9706  91.5285 6127116 272.6190  23.2120  4.00289491123613

No guarantee it is of the quality of Alan's.

Ron Lee