Progress rocket

Mike McCants (mikem@fc.net)
Sun, 6 Jul 1997 11:13:37 -0500 (CDT)

Elsets from OIG:

1 24852U 97033B   97186.90415899  .01905289  12079-4  42882-3 0    73
2 24852  51.6182 352.0082 0026654 109.5016 250.9023 16.28249548   124

1 24852U 97033B   97187.08822670  .02038212  12097-4  42942-3 0    84
2 24852  51.6177 350.9849 0025567 110.2338 250.1445 16.29022924   155

1 24852U 97033B   97187.21089255  .02014031  12106-4  40916-3 0    97
2 24852  51.6172 350.3039 0024527 114.3909 245.9857 16.29481191   175

1 24852U 97033B   97187.51733508  .02547066  12151-4  44763-3 0   102
2 24852  51.6134 348.5939 0021225 109.9246 250.4027 16.31189379   229

Decay should occur about 97/189.2 = July 8 about 5 hours UT.
I do not believe that the night-time portion of the orbits around
that time are likely to pass near any of "us".

Mike McCants