TSS/tether re-entry

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It looks "bad".

Here are today's 5 elsets from OIG:

1 23805U 96012B   96079.02025515  .04199051  33236-1  59704-2 0   880
2 23805  28.4733 101.5000 0019786  87.7624 272.5276 16.08164420  3982

1 23805U 96012B   96079.20627344  .04783779  44766-1  57111-2 0   895
2 23805  28.4322 100.0230 0026924  64.0181 296.2558 16.10409589  4015

1 23805U 96012B   96079.51557779  .07009649  18658+0  71967-2 0   909
2 23805  28.4735  97.6907 0015109 102.0208 258.3082 16.15977743  4064

1 23805U 96012B   96079.57727881  .05865802  27522+0  72095-2 0   911
2 23805  28.4725  97.2081 0013649 103.1471 257.0944 16.17483952  4073

1 23805U 96012B   96079.63893078  .11809260 -74753-5  60710-2 0   920
2 23805  28.4650  96.7362 0011176 106.4936 253.7201 16.19069509  4081

The last two elsets agree very well with my second numerical integration
(from yesterday) that gives a decay on March 19 about 23:15 hours UT.

There is still a lot of uncertainty, but I cannot run a numerical
intgration from this computer system.

Mike McCants
mikem@sterinfo.com (days)
mike@comshare.com (nights)

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