Perigee is around Chile somewhere, where its expected to lose all resemblance to functionality and make a nice bang sometime this evening.
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still working fer me!
Its over the south atlantic NE of patagonia..should be over S africa shortly..
It's currently coming down at about 1/100 of a mile every second, or 36 MPH. It's currently 80 miles high, so it can't last long, even if the decent was linear (which it won't be), although the orbit may not be circular, so the 36 MPH may be an incorrect estimte over the whole orbit.
OK, orbit not circular - it's now rising at almost the same rate it was falling.
assuming its the phobos-grunt Ive just watched it cross aral sea bt its altitude appaers to be increasing !!! started at 85miles now at 87 miles must be interpretingthe read out wrong I guess going over mongolia at 87.6 miles altitude ???
elliptical orbit ?
Possibly, over South America as I write this at 85 miles high decreasing ..
back over south america at 5:48 and still at 84 miles altitude ....
Dot be fooled. Its orbit is not at constant altitude. It goes up as well as down.
USA and Russia both reporting it's down now ...
site still shows it as flapping over the pacific..
Yeah: bit of a disappointment that. I had presumed that it was a real-time tracker like planefinder or shipfinder but I suppose, since satellites normally tend to plod on their weary way with boring precision, that it's just a bit of calculating code. Except for incidents like this one, you wouldn't really need more, would you?
Nick
well its now over the atlantic at 76 miles atidude according to the site hehe
News reports say it went into the Pacific off Chile.
At the time of writing that web site has it still up there...
Andy
Appears it will pass over southern England soon (I write this at 10am. Monday.)
Apparently it has crashed into the Pacific between NZ and SAmerica.
Hugh
Does it bounce that much?
If they have found it, no trace in the public media as of Friday am! Lyn
No interest unless it was captured flaring and dying or the bits hit something interesting. If it came down over open ocean, the newsdesks shrug and forget it.
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