Decaying Bion debris C - #24706

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:24:49 +0100

While walking home, and looking for #23596 EORSAT, which may be lowered
to MM=15.85 any week now, I happened to see what must have been #24706,
the decaying Bion debris piece C. It was bright, about +2 and steady,
when it passed above eps UMa, right on place an only 6 seconds early
at 17:45:00 UT wrt. this elset :
The latest set =
1 24706U 96073C   97062.92161377  .00744820  85370-5  24437-3 0  1138
2 24706  62.7993 337.8066 0041824 110.9637 249.5955 16.23009337 11113

So there is hope that it can survive until Mar.09/10, as SatEvo predicts.
It is now entering shadow SB at 59N, leaving SB at 59S.
On Monday, it may be 50N and 62 S.

I did not see #23596 - is it already lowered ? I'll try to get new OIG
elsets.

PS. For once I am not latitude-challenged. I was able to spot Hale-Bopp
with the naked eye, at 15 deg. alt., above a hot-dog-stand at our local
bus-stop/shopping centre, at 18:25 local time.

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