Hi All, The decay trend is improving on Iridium 27 for southern California. A few hours ago I would have put the odds of it occurring during the L.A. pass at about 1%. Drag seems to have increased a little more than expected, backing up the reentry time. I would now say the chances are pretty good that reentry will occur within +/- 1 rev of the California-Nevada-Oregon-Washington pass, and I'm inclined to increase our chances of observing it to 5% based on our favorable location downrange of a satellite local altitude minima. Those in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Nebraska and western Iowa we'll be encouraged to hear that their chances have improved dramatically as well -- one rev earlier than the California pass. The track looks like it goes northbound a bit west of Houston around 20:18 CST, and almost directly over Dallas a minute later. Oklahoma City is also pretty close to the reentry track, as is Omaha, Nebraska. --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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