From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: Prediction of Cosmos Crash Time Article-I.D.: eagle.756 Posted: Mon Jan 31 22:38:20 1983 Received: Wed Feb 2 02:38:31 1983 References: u1100a.286 I suspect that the 8:17 number wasn't exactly as significant as the number of "significant digits" implies. One scenario: the orbital period at that point is 85.7 minutes, a likely figure. An "official source" says re-entry will probably occur "sometime in the next ten orbits or so". A journalist multiplies 85.7 by 10 and comes up with 14 hours, 17 minutes. Voila! Phil