Hi All, Been taking a close look at the Gorizont 29 aux motor reentry trajectories for this afternoon. While there's a nice pass off the coast of southern California this evening during the reentry window, there's no chance reentry can occur at that time. (Reentry will occur on an ascending node in the eastern hemisphere). Based on the latest SATEVO-generated orbits posted by Alan, the reentry has a good chance of occurring on the ascending node that passes close to Palau -- indeed, Palau would actually have a decent chance of observing it if it weren't for the fact that it occurs in midmorning (5 January ~23:52 UT). For this pass, use the following TLE: Gorz 29 AuxMtr 2.0 1.0 0.0 7.5 d 2 469 x 104 km 1 22925U 93072E 01005.99304977 1.25862831 17487+1 14805-2 0 98604 2 22925 46.5186 233.0362 0274072 7.6975 352.7148 15.95655246 96392 (Be sure to propagate using HANDE or SGP; SGP4 does not work well with SATEVO-generated element sets for objects close to decay.) If it doesn't come in on this orbit, reentry looks possible off the coast of Singapore toward Malasia/Borneo at ~1:21 UT. This rev continues over the north island of the Philippines (Luzon) about 4 minutes later. For this orbit, use: Gorz 29 AuxMtr 2.0 1.0 0.0 7.5 d 2 369 x 102 km 1 22925U 93072E 01006.05530012 1.80217268 44407+1 16763-2 0 98609 2 22925 46.5142 232.6651 0201315 8.0663 352.2525 16.14154508 96402 I believe we have a list member in Singapore (ykChia); unfortunately, it's currently about 3:45am there local time, so he probably won't see this message for several hours. --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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