Decayed, I presume?

Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:02:18 -0600

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By accident I just noticed something odd, so I went to OIG's 
Web site and requested and got these "last five elsets" for 
an object:

CZ-3A R/B
1 24835U 97029B   97161.73705902  .00282540  00000-0  46945-1 0    10
2 24835  28.5573  71.7876 7301809 179.8716 180.5779  2.26757205    11
CZ-3A R/B
1 24835U 97029B   97161.73695428  .00003719  00000-0  65401-3 0    21
2 24835  28.5602  71.7889 7301042 179.8754 180.4716  2.26839173    14

Given that the last elset was in the first half of 1997, may I 
assume that this object has decayed?  I queried for more 
information regarding the object and got this:

> Query return total: 1
> Query Date: 1999/02/15 08:27:48
>
> Satellite Object Number: Ascending Order
>
> IntID/Name   CatNo Source period   Incl Apogee Perigee      RCS
> ------------ ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- --------
>
> 1997-029B    24835 PRC     635.0   28.6  35960     227   0.0000
> CZ-3A R/B                 Launched (1997/06/10) 

They don't seem to know that it's decayed.  

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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