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UARS watch...
Sep. 23rd, 2011 10:42 amAccording to the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies page, the UARS satellite is expected to plunge back to the surface of the Earth at 03:16 UTC tomorrow (about 9:15 pm tonight local Mountain time).
According to the latest satellite data, UARS will be visible from Pagosa at shortly before 9 pm tonight, appearing 10 degrees above the horizon at 20:55:44 almost due west (270°) of my location, rising to 17 degrees above the horizon a minute and 20 seconds later at a bearing of 316°, and then sinking below 10° again a minute and 20 seconds after that almost due north of me.
The CORDS site states a plus-or-minus of five hours for the re-entry time, so UARS may already have fallen out of the sky by the time it's supposed to go by, and 17° isn't very high when you consider the mountains between here and the horizon, but we shall attempt to see what we can.
Cheers...
According to the latest satellite data, UARS will be visible from Pagosa at shortly before 9 pm tonight, appearing 10 degrees above the horizon at 20:55:44 almost due west (270°) of my location, rising to 17 degrees above the horizon a minute and 20 seconds later at a bearing of 316°, and then sinking below 10° again a minute and 20 seconds after that almost due north of me.
The CORDS site states a plus-or-minus of five hours for the re-entry time, so UARS may already have fallen out of the sky by the time it's supposed to go by, and 17° isn't very high when you consider the mountains between here and the horizon, but we shall attempt to see what we can.
Cheers...
