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Potential flasher?
Cosmos 1030 shed a piece of debris about a day before it
re-entered last night. Apparently the object came off due to aerodynamic forces during one of the satellite's perigee passages (H-A gave its last perigee altitude as 96 km). 78083L (ID# 28401) is in an orbit approximately 120 x 3300 km, so it isn't long for that world. Thanks to clouds I haven't been able to look for it. If it's large enough to spot it might be flashing (my guess is that it's the solar panel from the satellite; astronautix.com describes Cosmos 1030 as an Oko-1 early-warning satellite, with a large solar panel). --Bill Thompson |
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