Just been playing with some numbers.No two-lines were issued for September 3rd, so maybe the satellite was recalled the previous day with a landing at about 18:26 UTC? That would mean that the final TLE to be issued is also the final equator crossing of the satellite.Alternatively, the satellite might have landed about 18:11 UTC on September 3rd with no TLEs being issued during the day.These figures assume a final equator crossing between 40-45 deg E which is low but not unprecedented for this orbital inclination.
The following has been posted on the SEESAT mailing list by Björn Gimle:Rob Matson sent me the following info, of which I was not aware otherwise:...I do occasionally check the archives to see if interesting events thatI’m aware of have been brought up there. I was VERY surprised to see thatno one has mentioned the spectacular administrative decay of Cosmos 2495three nights ago over Colorado and Wyoming!It was witnessed by hundreds of people and the debris cloud is veryimpressive on Doppler radar (a snapshot of which I’ve attached). Thatdrifting debris cloud is visible for over half an hour in radar images fromDenver and Cheyenne. A little surprising to me that the Russians wouldcommand destructive reentry to occur over land rather than ocean –especially over CONUS – when some pieces of the 6.7-ton satellite willlikely survive to the ground....The reentry occurred at around 10:30 *pm* local time Sep.2, so not a daytimereentry. Feel free to post my comments to SeeSat with my name.I'll be a little surprised if there wasn't at least one list member whowitnessed it.So, was the main descent module from Cosmos 2495 recovered inside Russia or did it decay from orbit?
Excellent analysis here :http://www.spaceflight101.com/kosmos-2495-re-entry.html
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19386.0A thread about a similar incident, where the service module came down in Mexico, although the return capsule presumably landed in Russia.