[amsat-bb] USA-193 destroyed

Daniel Schultz n8fgv at usa.net
Wed Feb 20 20:39:02 PST 2008


  
The 11pm TV news reports that the Navy sucessfully destroyed USA-193 tonight
at about 10:30 pm EST, or 03:30 GMT February 21. I suggest you keep watching
the predicted passes, you might see some nice meteors in the next few days as
the debris falls back to Earth. The latest keps posted on heavens-above are:

1 29651U 06057A   08050.77400802  .00256405  00000-0  29678-3 0    02
2 29651  58.5208  31.8067 0009932  58.7181 301.4893 16.08191854    02

Epoch (UTC):  6:34:34 PM, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 
Eccentricity:  0.0009932 
Inclination:  58.5208° 
Perigee Height:  245 km 
Apogee Height:  258 km 
Right Ascension of Ascending Node:  31.8067° 
Argument of Perigee:  58.7181° 
Revolutions per Day:  16.08191854 
Mean Anomaly at Epoch:  301.4893° 
Orbit Number at Epoch:  0 


Dan Schultz N8FGV

 
 






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