Re: Decaying rocket (and fragments)

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 07:10:19 +0200

>
>24366 94029PT  Pegasus deb PT should be passing in sunlight tonight
>at 21:41 UT over the British Isles (look up, Russell!) on its last
>orbit ?
>

No new elsets appeared on OIG, so I interpolated my last 8 elsets,
and found the ndot2 on 97214.17 to be .0346 rather than .0288:

Pegasus deb PT adjusted                          377 x 310 km
1 24366U 94029PT  97214.17634726  .03459307  00000-0  18521-1 0  4142
2 24366  81.8052 112.5866 0049959 266.6116 107.2397 15.75294283172195

leading to decay around Aug.04 at 0100 UT

An MM plot is available on my 'recent.htm' page.

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