Re: Decay watch: Interbol/Magion rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:11:54 +0100

The latest elset is:
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            219 x 171 km
1 24294U 96050D   98205.82824203  .02638346  86812-5  51066-3 0  7995
2 24294  62.7135  79.5693 0036891 253.4318 106.2780 16.29066932105856

This shows it almost 30 seconds behind yesterday's "9793" evolution. I
now project decay for July 26.6 +-0.4 day.

New prediction:
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            215 x 169 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.01230923  .03025997  52448-2  53375-3 0 97999
2 24294  62.7132  78.8123 0034905 253.4738 106.1424 16.30174776105888
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            209 x 167 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.25756066  .03477409  71463-2  53642-3 0 97990
2 24294  62.7127  77.8017 0032069 253.5299 106.1176 16.31763912105921
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            202 x 164 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.50255538  .04116582  10539-1  53847-3 0 97992
2 24294  62.7120  76.7896 0028960 253.5861 106.0954 16.33614462105961
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            194 x 160 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.74724665  .05097742  16845-1  53895-3 0 97996
2 24294  62.7114  75.7759 0025478 253.6424 106.0774 16.35849996106008
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            180 x 154 km
1 24294U 96050D   98207.05256926  .07472233  39786-1  45253-3 0 97993
2 24294  62.7101  74.5057 0020314 253.7131 106.0633 16.39585982106057

Alan
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