Decay Watch: 2002 June 13

From: Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 16:02:27 EDT


Welcome back to SeeSat-L. While the List was off-the-air, we had a 
couple of Proton decayers from the Express A4 launch, #27442 the rocket, 
and #27443, the casing/platform - details on my Decay Watch page.

I have just updated the page again with the first decay notice for 
#22010, the USA 82 Atlas Centaur rocket, which was secret until a couple 
of days ago. A summary follows - check the page for predicted elsets.
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Object: #22010 = 92- 37 B = USA 82 Atlas Centaur rocket

Decay predictions:
Source   Prediction made    Predicted decay at      Latitude Longitude
                UTC                UTC                  deg      deg
SpaceCom   Jun 13 14:49     Jun 16 15:26 +-2d        24.4 N   123.5 W
SatEvo     Jun 13 19:45     Jun 17 08:11 +-1.2d

Latest elset:
USA 82 Atlas Centaur r                           1186 x 129 km
1 22010U 92037B   02164.70865499  .11371279 -75671-5  86876-3 0   180
2 22010  26.0593 280.1297 0750772 354.9975 172.0840 14.71157255 25862

SatEvo prediction: See Decay Watch page.

Note: The first public elset for this previously-secret object was as
follows, with its epoch two days ago on June 11:
USA 82 Atlas Centaur r                           1437 x 130 km
1 22010U 92037B   02162.78251468  .07862437 -74701-5  72184-3 0    19
2 22010  26.0807 292.1625 0912475 334.8721 191.8673 14.32390507 25582
Eclipse entry occurs close to S apex near 26 deg S in the evening
sky, with eclipse exit while northbound near 19 deg N before dawn.
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Alan
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Alan Pickup / COSPAR 2707:  55.8968N   3.1989W   +208m   (WGS84 datum)
Edinburgh  / SatEvo & elsets:    http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/
Scotland  / Decay Watch: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
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