Bjorn Gimle wrote: > At 14:54, 32 debris objects where within +-4 degrees of > orbital longitude from the satellite. Best clustering of the > orbits appears to have been around 64E (on that orbit), 10N. > Graphing the orbital height vs. latitude for the ascending > and descending halves of the orbit at that time confirms > this. Excluding the six most differing orbits, the remainder > are 815-841 km at latitude 9S (ascending). On the other half, > I get 798-997 km. > > My charts are about 60k in .gif or .jpg, so I can't put them on DSat. Bjorn has e-mailed me his graphs, and I have placed them on satobs.org: 1. 91-82 objects 2004-04-15 14:40 Ascending (E) http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/91082Abreakup/DMSP_asc.gif 2. 91-82 objects 2004-04-15 14:40 Descending (W) http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/91082Abreakup/DMSP_desc.gif 3. 91-82 objects 2004-04-15 E-W (km) vs. Latitude http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/91082Abreakup/DMSP_e-w_asc.gif 4. 91-82 objects 2004-04-15 14:54 UTC track over Iran http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/91082Abreakup/DMSP_Iran.gif Bjorn points out that the above plot "gives an indication on how many objects are in a small area over four minutes", per his following table: http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/91082Abreakup/DMSP_Iran.txt Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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