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Old August 18th 04, 08:05 AM
William R. Thompson
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Default 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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