Last weekend we had very low (150 miles/240 km)
passes of 28506 (04-052B, Sich 1M Rk, an SL-8).
I regret that unfortunately I managed to miss
all of them, including a near-zenith pass last
Saturday evening during a star party. Sigh.
This object is in an somewhat eccentric but
very low orbit. I didn't come up with it in
any of SpaceTrack's decay predictions (not
even 60-day), but it seems to me that it
probably can't last a lot longer. Its in a
near-polar prograde orbit and so could decay
almost anywhere on the Earth.
Aerospace.org doesn't have any decay indicated
after March 3.
So anyway, this is just a heads-up in case
someone may get a good pass or even see it
decay.
I did manage to show Superbird A (20040) to
several people at the star party. I didn't
have predictions for it but was able to
remember where Mike and I had watched it a
few nights before.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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