Miscellaneous errors

Bjorn Gimle (bjorn.gimle@online.dextel.se)
27 Jul 1995 11:40:16 GMT

I have made some blunders recently :


>This rocket will decay about July 27:
>Cosmos 2312 SL-6 rocket
>1 23585U 95026B   95200.56962391  .00657037  80191-5  66334-3 0  1058
>2 23585  62.8103 283.7025 0125162 124.8523 236.4458 15.96379749  8778

No, this ndot2 was abnormally high, here is a current elset,
indicating decay around Aug. 05:
Cosmos 2312 SL-6 rocket
1 23585U 95026B   95207.19402803 +.00711479 +81645-5 +55254-3 0 01292
2 23585 062.8086 257.6711 0099708 123.9495 237.1163 16.04234074009834

>#22808 is visible, at least from Canada and
>mid-northern Europe, until decay. 
>ndot2 has  not kept  a constant  difference compared  to the  recently
>decayed EORSATS, which would indicate that the orbit correction system
>is working at maximum efficiency. If this were true, it would  decay
>within a week.

It is still fighting, keeping a remarkably small fraction of 
ndot2 of comparable recent decaying EORSATs (.011-.019 at MM=16.16)
Cosmos 2264
1 22808U 93060A   95207.19858056 +.00398078 +71843-5 +21489-3 0 03313
2 22808 064.9753 245.2855 0049788 244.3217 115.2812 16.16313823107918

My elsets for possible candidates for the Klaus/Pouplier photo
should have epochs 91100 instead of 91101, and when I didn't spot
that error, I tampered with them, at least the last one should have
epoch 100.616 instead of 101.696 ?


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