Acceleration Report : 1 Dec '96 : 92- 8 B, 92- 20 B, 92- 30 J

Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)
Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:00:04 +0100

First this:
I finally made some time to generate my own homepage on the Web.
For the moment you can find there only this Acceleration Report but I
added some graphs showing the evolution of the Semi Major Axis of the
following objects.

You can find it via : http://uc2.unicall.be/kjonckheere/index.htm
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Observations of the following objects are needed very urgently.

The following objects had a jump in Mean Motion and * MIGHT * accelerate:
21938 = 92- 20 B              21984 = 92- 30 J 

The following object had a jump in Mean Motion and IS ACCELERATING !
21876 = 92-  8 B 

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21876 = 92-  8 B 
Evolution of the Flash Period of this rocket : 
92-  8 B 96-10-23 05:07:35   LB  180.3 0.2  10 18.03  FF, mag 4->inv
92-  8 B 96-10-23 18:44      WV                       S ??
92-  8 B 96-10-25 17:55:18   LB   74.5 0.2   4 18.6   FF, mag 4->inv
92-  8 B 96-11-06 18:10      KJ  155.4 1.5   8 19.4   FF, 4->inv, later MM
92-  8 B 96-11-15 17:04      KJ  179.0 0.4  14 12.79
Ron Lee also saw it flashing at 96-11-18 but couldn't measure a good period
because of changing Flash behaviour of this rocket.

For the moment this object is only visible for our Southern latitude
observers.  Who of them makes the next observation ?
Latest elements : 
1 21876U 92008B   96331.18224087  .00000379  00000-0  38214-3 0  7726
2 21876  82.9254 293.6642 0037026  97.1831 263.3513 13.74517050239443


21938 = 92- 20 B 
On the Graph (on my webpage) you can see that the Semi major axis was 
going down in September '96.  It has been going down fast again since 
November 15, 1996.
No observations have been reported during the last months.
Latest elements : 
1 21938U 92020B   96334.07556020 +.00000761 +00000-0 +78748-3 0 07799
2 21938 082.9286 169.4568 0029200 243.6555 116.1604 13.74394179231960


21984 = 92- 30 J 
During August '96 there was a very sudden increase of the SMA of about
150 m.  Now, the SMA has been going up rather fast again since 15 November.
Latest elements : 
1 21984U 92030J   96334.55220375 -.00000003  00000-0  10000-3 0  6560
2 21984  74.0029   0.2011 0122906  88.9516 272.5547 12.22113270200420

Happy observing !
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       Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be)  51.2 N  2.9 E   
  Latest accelerations : http://uc2.unicall.be/kjonckheere/index.htm 
    observations collector for the Belgian Working Group Satellites: 
Send your observations of flashing satellites, preferrably in the correct
     PPAS format to obs@physics.oxford.ac.uk or obs@physics.ox.ac.uk
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