I downloaded the full list, as I'm interested in all the cataloging, for updating my launchlist and the RAE-tables. I noticed there was some recataloging and some mistakes. The fragmentation of 1991-82, DMSP 5D-2 F11: I already had a fragment F in my list. Checking the numbers gave that 21802 1991-82 D was re-assigned to 1991-62 H (Yohkoh fragment), which decayed 2000/11/15. Subsequentely 21825 was changed from 1991-82 E to D, and 21836 from F to E. Now the new entries F-BN fitt in. 1988-98: Number 21859 was first given to 1971-96 C. 1988-85: In January/February 2004 numbers 28152 and 28153 were given to 1988-85 CM and CN. So number 28276 should be for 1988-85 CP. Checking OIG gives: SL-12 DEB 1 28152U 88085CM 04148.93968753 .00000838 00000-0 10996-1 0 530 2 28152 65.5161 124.3493 5224446 60.6715 341.4502 4.70912657 16795 SL-12 DEB 1 28153U 88088CN 04150.94166721 .00002234 00000-0 35601-1 0 647 2 28153 65.6241 106.2794 4531871 58.3191 338.1070 5.63855333 27462 SL-12 DEB 1 28276U 88085CM 04133.88140787 +.00022873 +00000-0 +44591-1 0 00018 2 28276 065.5777 101.7981 4486058 058.4273 113.7995 06.15695224004879 Note the wrong NoradID for 28153: 1988-88 CN in stead of 1988-85 CN. 1988-88 was Cosmos 1973 with a lifetime of 17.8 days and fragments C-J. The last fragment decayed after 190 days. 1991-68: In december 1999 the 3th stage from the Cosmos 2157-2162 launch fragmented and pieces 1991-68 H-AR were catalogued; with AR being 26030. In May 2003 number 27804 was also assigned to 1991-68 AR. Checking OIG gives: SL-14 DEB 1 26029U 91068AQ 04149.36070407 .00000027 00000-0 10000-3 0 4929 2 26029 82.5683 108.0361 0038766 61.2354 299.2622 12.55968325233997 1 26030U 91068AR 02015.75749584 +.00000029 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 02473 2 26030 082.4862 280.4271 0066459 162.2625 198.0820 12.61871929471737 SL-14 DEB 1 27804U 91068AR 04149.31610407 .00000028 00000-0 10000-3 0 1609 2 27804 82.6567 120.6372 0052817 142.0737 218.4404 12.57759031 93291 SL-14 DEB 1 28277U 91068AS 04149.48397673 .00000035 00000-0 10000-3 0 33 2 28277 82.6217 61.4016 0032432 218.8144 141.1127 12.83397446 55008 SL-14 DEB 1 28278U 91068AT 04150.65225634 .00000031 00000-0 10000-3 0 38 2 28278 82.3029 42.7266 0089676 343.2851 16.2656 12.71856463 60793 So what happened to 26030? Its TLE fitts that of the other fragments. It is still in the catalogue; has not decayed, not even adminstately. Thanks to Mike McCants for providing the weekly reports. Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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