re: Acceleration Report

Walter Nissen (dk058@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Sat, 20 Jan 1996 06:24:58 -0500 

> From: kjonckheere@unicall.be (Kurt Jonckheere) 
> Subject: ACCELERATION REPORT (16 January 1996) 
 
> ACCELERATION REPORT (15 January 1996) 
> WARNING: SUDDEN ORBITAL ELEMENT CHANGE, 
>          ACCELERATION POSSIBLE 
 
> OBJECTS TO BE OBSERVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: 
> 18096 87- 49 B      19257 88- 53 B 
> 19036 88- 29 B      22007 92- 36 B (very nice object!) 
> 21876 92-  8 B 
 
Thanks for your posting, and I apologize for having a quibble. 
 
I presume that 19036 was intended to be 19039, and that the object is 
19039 = 88- 29 B = C* 1937 r. 
 
I probably should go into one of my periodic rants about how horribly 
difficult this tripartate nomenclature is in actual use, and about how a 
simple system with the 26 letters and 10 digits allows the cataloging of 
46,656 objects with merely a 3-character name, but since it's not our 
fault, I won't. 
 
Cheers. 
 
Walter Nissen                   dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu