Oscar 13 final day(s)

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 06:39:15 +0100 (MET)

Tonight's elsets for OSCAR 13 go as far as Dec.4 1900 UT,
and the true ndot2 appears to be over 1.0 revolutions/day/day.

The latest set =
1 19216U 88051B   96339.78367092  .01404555  29146-5  46210-3 0  3792
2 19216  56.9107  67.5229 2307779  64.1890 319.0071 11.12975444 33525
Element set number = 1
1 19216U 88051B   96339.78365621  .23909771  19084-4  46210-3 0  3780
2 19216  56.8786  67.5336 2366062  62.0463 319.9017 11.14537869 33525
Element set number = 2
1 19216U 88051B   96339.70096466  .99999999  34592-4  12466-1 0  3767
2 19216  56.9335  67.8477 2422271  61.9976 348.7960 10.94053373 33513
Element set number = 5
1 19216U 88051B   96339.69378728  .13178426  17337-4  46210-3 0  3774
2 19216  56.9373  67.7624 2367134  61.7486 320.1296 11.11234249 33517
Element set number = 4
1 19216U 88051B   96339.39534363  .03224242  13332-4  10000-3 0  3754
2 19216  56.9466  68.3908 2757802  61.1812 270.9539 10.28407600 33482

Compared to James Miller's elsets posted three days ago, OSCAR has
decayed more rapidly, and may decay on todays orbits over the US 
and Canada, but you will probably have to watch all the hours that
the orbit is within range! 
Remember that OSCAR may glow in darkness of perigee and after.

AO13-6545
1 31045U 88051B   96340.73199342  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0 12028
2 31045  56.8758  65.1552 0603258  62.9604 195.2762 15.26059677 65459
AO13-6533
1 31033U 88051B   96339.75529040  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0 12027
2 31033  56.9386  67.9657 2702052  61.4374 202.4996 10.42081337 65330
AO13-6529
1 31029U 88051B   96339.35318699  .00000000  00000-0  10000-4 0 12024
2 31029  56.9513  68.7302 3160998  61.0477 204.9340  9.45093482 65291

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