Re: Cosmos 398

Josh R. Williams (sponge@rocco.nebula.org)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 14:57:52 -0500 (EST)

Any estimates on when it will decay? If not I will do them myself... I 
just need to know a couple things (call me stupid:)) At what altitude 
does the Satellite begin to burn up? And how bright are they usually? 
When the come in that is....

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Josh R. Williams                                 Latitude: 41 deg 59' 29" N  
E-Mail: sponge@nebula.org                       Longitude: 83 deg 27' 41" W

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On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Programer wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Josh R. Williams wrote:
> 
> > Anyone else out there in Seesat-L world seen Cosmos 398? It is Norad 
> > number #04966, and I must tell you it was really bright, I put it at Mag 
> > 1 to 0.... I couldn't believe I was looking at it... SO I checked my 
> > charts and that was the only thing that was supposed to be there... :) I 
> > was truly amazed because I have it down on my list as being Mag. +2 on a 
> > good pass, so I must have gotten lucky.... 
> 
> hmm that does seem a bit brighter than normal for C* 398.  But it is 
> decaying so maybe its gotten a bit lower and etc...
> 
> 1 04966U 71016A   95211.84994501  .00109508  89604-5  10419-3 0  9553
> 2 04966  51.4121  23.6744 0518246 245.1147 109.5116 15.11192231831761
> 1 04966U 71016A   95262.07903445  .00302135  10061-4  21378-3 0    54
> 2 04966  51.3937 143.5083 0430048  67.0140 297.5488 15.33982379839403
> 1 04966U 71016A   95315.86130585  .00374909  10708-4  14295-3 0   974
> 2 04966  51.3811 232.0234 0241177 273.5410  83.8055 15.82313610847789
> 
> it looks like it's going to reenter relativly soon, maybe someone can do 
> a reentry estimate on C* 398?
> 
> It might be cool to see the failed Russian Lunar Lander burn up some 24 
> years later :) 
> 
> Marek
> progrmer@tiac.net
> http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~progrmer
> 
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