Re: Decay watch update: December 30

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 20:09:45 +0000

Alan Pickup <alan@wingar.demon.co.uk> writes
>The final elset for #25572, the Mars Climate Orbiter Delta 2 rocket was:
>
>Iridm 2 Delta r  5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            317 x 206 km
>1 25532U 98066F   98364.69815706  .01149445 -12527-5  10852-2 0  1146
>2 25532  82.4466 253.5062 0083337 140.8065 220.1355 16.04743010  8530

Oh no it isn't :(  I cut'n'pasted the wrong elset. It should be...

MCO Delta 2 r1   5.9  2.4  0.0  5.0 d            247 x 130 km
1 25572U 98073B   98363.62801871  .19991355 -15028-4  48058-3 0   790
2 25572  23.8805  47.4293 0089199 117.6717 243.3448 16.31611800  2775

Thanks to Russell Eberst for pointing out the error.

Alan
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