Re: high satellites with accelerating rotation
Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@mail.unicall.be)
Tue, 5 May 1998 21:44:22 +0200 (MET DST)
Some days ago I wrote :
>hello all,
>I will finish the next update to the PPAS in the next days and
>already want to focus on the following two objects :
>
>Gorizont 23 = 91- 46 A = 21533
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>Observations of the last months : flashing period
>91- 46 A 98-01-05 03:56:11.6 RM 306.2 0.5 6 51.04
>91- 46 A 98-01-07 02:10 RGL 0.5 50 50.96 T=2547.9
>91- 46 A 98-01-25 12:42 AB 0.2 30 50.667 T=1520.0, +-0.002
>91- 46 A 98-01-26 12:45 AB 0.2 25 50.652 T=1266.3, +-0.002
>91- 46 A 98-02-17 19:46:25.3 KJ 0.1 38 50.289 T=1911.0, mag max+5
>91- 46 A 98-02-26 19:05 JPH 501.4 0.2 10 50.14
>91- 46 A 98-03-18 MM 49.93
91- 46 A 98-05-04 20:54 KJ 0.1 28 49.908 T=1397.4
Unfortenately, this object wasn't observed for about 50 days, but
it is clear that during the last two months the period remained
nearly constant, so the acceleration has slowed down considerably or
maybe it is even going up again !?!
It is still visible over Europe for the next two weeks and is flashing
at about mag +5 (at 36000 km !)
>ETS 6 = 23230U = 94056A
>------------------------
>94- 56 A 98-03-08 11:22 RGL 241.1 1.0 24 10.05
>94- 56 A 98-04-08 12:31 AB 975.8 0.1 50 19.516
>94- 56 A 98-04-14 12:06 AB 193.7 .04 10 19.374
>94- 56 A 98-04-16 12:30 AB 966.9 50 19.338
>94- 56 A 98-04-17 11:15 AB 19.313
>94- 56 A 98-04-22 21:20 KJ 76.7 0.3 4 19.2
94- 56 A 98-05-04 21:38 KJ 565.6 0.2 60 9.427 mag +9, A'(f)A'
=18.85
Period is still nicely going down.
latest elements from OIG :
21533
1 21533U 91046A 98119.42206156 .00000047 00000-0 10000-3 0 578
2 21533 3.8782 66.5414 0006337 92.9488 266.9725 0.98905665 19093
23230
1 23230U 94056A 98122.89960497 -.00000218 00000-0 10000-3 0 5271
2 23230 14.2188 353.1552 5034175 38.3312 348.5486 1.67091646 22568
Observations are appreciated very much.
Greetings,
Kurt Jonckheere
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Kurt Jonckheere (kjonckheere@unicall.be) 51.2 N 2.9 E 4m ASL
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