At 01:18 28/01/01 , Allen Thomson wrote: >Friday, January 26 8:29 PM SGT >A Progress M1 craft is due to nudge Mir from its current orbit and maneuver >the craft to a final destination of 47 degrees latitude and 140 degrees >longitude, Moscow said. > The 140 degrees is being interpreted as 140 East, and not 140 West. in the ommitted paragraph. Its hardly part of the Pacific Ocean. Its a rather close (550Kms or 300miles) to Tasmania. If the target point is on the Descending path, perhaps the inhabitants of the SW corner of Western Australia will be able to another space station re-entring. They collected Skylab in 1979 remember. Can our Russian correspondents consider the ORIGINAL text and confirm that its 140 degrees East longitude. The 47S, 140W postion is much further from any land. Tony Beresford (34.9638S, 138.6333E) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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