UARS reentry looks to be shifting slightly later, so I've extended the ground track predictions out to 06:00 UT. Here are the latest times/locations:
September 24, 2011 (UT) 04:00 Just east of Somoa 146 km 04:18:30-04:20 Washington state 140 km 04:20-04:24:30 Western Canada 141-143 km 04:26-04:28 Quebec 143 km 04:40 Southern Morocco/N. Western Sahara 138 km 04:40:30-04:42 Mauritania 138 km 04:42-04:44 Mali 137 km 04:44-04:45 Burkino Faso 137 km 04:45-04:46 Benin 137 km 04:51-04:53 Angola 140 km 04:53-04:54 NE Namibia 141-142 km 04:54-04:55:30 Botswana 143 km 04:55:30-04:57:30 South Africa 143-145 km 05:19 NW corner of Tasmania 146 km 05:20 SE-most Australian coast 144 km 05:26 NW edge of New Caledonia 137 km 05:27 Vanuatu 136 km 05:49-05:54 British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba 139-141 km 05:56-05:59 Quebec 140 km 06:00 Newfoundland 139 km Note that for those in Southern California, UARS should be briefly visible low in the southwest (under Scorpius) rising around 7:44 pm PDT this evening and going into the earth's shadow only 2 minutes later about 6 degrees to the lower right of Antares. --Rob ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
