33392 Banxing 1 is due to decay in the next few hours. This is of particular interest at this location as its inclination is 42.4 degrees. We have two passes in the next few hours, the second one being overhead: however the object is quite small, it will be daylight and it appears likely weather will be poor and the passes are only just within the SpaceTrack window for possible decay. At this stage expected altitude will be of the order of 165 km for so it looks relatively unlikely for decay to occur during the passes in question. Calsky also predicts a decay later than this, but I will of course be at the ready just in case there is anything to see. There is a further pass at 2054 UTC, and if decay should occur on that pass (though probably still too early) it would likely be too low elevation for anything to be seen here owing to our hilly topography, but if there is anything visible it might be seen from the Northern North Island of New Zealand. Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 174.948E 41.261S __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4555 (20091029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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