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.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== Words to live by: "BASICA?, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *seriousness*, HAHAHAHA" Josh R. Williams Latitude: 41 deg 59' 29" N E-Mail: sponge@nebula.org Longitude: 83 deg 27' 41" W =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > >