The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia at 2:24 a.m. EDT (6:24 a.m. GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Telegram.
My own plot of the final orbit, showing the Roskosmos estimate of the path between reentry and impact in purple. I guess that Kosmos-482 SA reentered somewhere along this track between India and the ocean south of Australia.
It doesn’t look southwest enough to have hit R4. Looks like mostly S4, maybe extending a bit into S3 or R3.
From https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/soviet-spacecraft-kosmos-482-crashes-back-to-earth-disappearing-into-indian-ocean-after-53-years-in-orbit
So my guess would be it hit R4 or S4, maybe?
(For clarity, my initial guess was V1 purely to spite me)
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It doesn’t look southwest enough to have hit R4. Looks like mostly S4, maybe extending a bit into S3 or R3.
@spicyspaceelephant@lemm.ee, I think you were closest!