Luch 1 Rk, #23684

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:47:01 +0200 (MET DST)

Alan Pickup wrote:

>> The same trawl yielded one object we all missed. #23684 = 95- 54 E (yet
>> another SL-12 R aux motor, this one from last October's LUCH 1 launch)
>> decayed while our backs were turned at about May 20.2.

I'd rather say "our hands were tied" or "we were blind-folded", as 
Allen Thomson's el960525 file, and probably also OIG, had this elset
as "latest" at the time :

95054  E
1 23684U 95054  E 95357.41048193  .00007932  00000-0  10343-2 0   484
2 23684  47.2230 255.1025 7300369  19.5690 358.0757  2.27430737  1653

>> The final four (five!)
>> OIG elements make interesting reading for aficionados of high drag
>> rates; the tle format does not support ndots (or MMDOT, if you prefer)
>> of more than 0.99999999:
95- 54 E  
1 23684U 95054E   96139.31189277  .59188470  20001-4  24615-2 0  1858
2 23684  46.7493 195.2694 2509990  77.6426 309.1751 10.79455040  5736
95- 54 E  
1 23684U 95054E   96140.81625857  .99999999  33398-4  30729-2 0  1894
2 23684  46.7813 190.3232 1292902  83.2529 301.7118 13.54598379  5907
95- 54 E  
1 23684U 95054E   96140.88714889  .99999999  33279-4  23033-2 0  1916
2 23684  46.7618 190.0432 1207520  83.5951 290.0836 13.75169614  5921
95- 54 E  
1 23684U 95054E   96141.16914625  .99999999  95185-5  24383-2 0  1934
2 23684  46.7227 188.6447 0540023  86.3314 327.3790 15.35953657  5960
95- 54 E  
1 23684U 95054E   96141.16064515  .99999999  10193-4  32789-2 0  1943
2 23684  46.7495 188.7828 0611178  80.0677 286.8587 15.14857796  5950


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