(meteorobs) UARS Satellite expected to reenter atmosphere in 3-5 days

kim hay cdnspooky at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 18:40:15 EDT 2011


On 09/19/2011 2:29 PM, Wayne Hally wrote:

We hope it will be the 23rd. We have an astronomy weekend this weekend, 
and that would certainly be a treat.

Kim
>
> Big difference between this morning and yesterday morning for me (in 
> NW NJ). Yesterday, the brightness was changing very rapidly (several 
> Hz), it was almost scintillating, and there were two bright flares, 
> and 2 fadeouts. This morning it was much steadier with just one flare 
> and one fade, otherwise the magnitude was steady... ~ +0.5.
>
> As you said Joe, the forecast is not good, but I've already set the 
> alarm for tomorrow morning just in case. Just remember to check 
> Heavens-Above later this evening. Every orbit update has advanced the 
> time as the satellite rapidly is falling. It lost 4 km for both 
> perigee and apogee in 15 hours leading up to the latest 0449 UTC 
> epoch. As of that time, orbit was 211 x 232 km (131 x 147 mi) with a 
> period of 88.9 minutes.
>
> Wayne
>
>

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