Re: Pageos
Richard Fredrick (rfredric@tfs.net)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 12:54:31 -0500
Hi All,
The main "shred" of the Pageos balloon decayed in the Autumn 1996. It had
the H designation and I observed it on several passes over a period of
several years before its demise. It always required binoculars and moved
quite slowly against the background stars.
The last time I observed it was on September 7, 1996 at 10:45 UT. It was a
much brighter object (easily seen with no optical aid) and moved quite
rapidly due to the fact that it was very close to decay.
The following elements were obtained today from the OIG site. The A object
is listed in the Molczan file, but the other two are not. I assume that
they are relatively small pieces of the balloon.
PAGEOS 1 DEB
1 02511U 66056D 98153.61211423 +.00000002 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 02762
2 02511 087.0136 038.8734 0013192 355.8635 004.2082 07.93352730925427
PAGEOS 1 DEB
1 02256U 66056C 98153.51664451 +.00000002 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 06720
2 02256 086.9144 003.4308 0037393 338.0272 021.8932 07.93955947926029
PAGEOS 1
1 02253U 66056A 98154.44282985 -.00000599 00000-0 10000-3 0 6720
2 02253 85.3768 314.4862 0907820 315.3262 37.7963 8.11500683483953
Sincerely,
Richard Fredrick
rfredric@tfs.net
Fairway, KS USA
39.021N 94.637W