(Fwd) Decay watch: #25486 = Molniya rocket

dmbrierley@taz.dra.hmg.gb
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:29:36 +0000

Many thanks to Alan Pickup for his work on 98-54B.  Last night, 
minutes before clouds rolled in ahead of the next Atlantic front, I 
saw it in the SE at 35 deg elevation, varying regularly between 
about mag -0.5 and +0.5 at  October 12 18:26 UT.  Unfortunately it 
wasn't possible to make any timings.

Moln 1T? Moln r1                                 215 x 169 km
1 25486U 98054B   98286.00307000  .05883640  19620-1  10205-2 0 90560
2 25486  62.8042 257.6321 0035495 135.2559 225.0310 16.30272039  2256

David Brierley
Malvern, Worcestershire, UK
Station 2675, 52.1358N, 2.3264W, 70m