Re: Decay watch: Interbol/Magion rocket
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:11:31 +0100
This one ran and ran. Apologies, though, for failing to update its elset
in my dklist and select files at the hourly interval I intended - put it
down to the failure of OIG's WWW service, and teething troubles
following the OS upgrade at my end.
The final (I expect) elset is:
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0 0.0 0.0 3.9 v 137 x 111 km
1 24294U 96050D 98207.53770378 .26655949 90238-5 11164-3 0 8142
2 24294 62.7084 72.4642 0019991 231.5644 128.6337 16.55951857106132
I suspect re-entry came soon after the perigee passage on this rev,
possibly at about July 26.58 (~14h UTC) along a track from the deep
South Pacific towards Costa Rica in Central America
Alan
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