PAS-6 is one that Mike has gotten in his scope with two others during flaring geosat seasons, but due to inadequate record- keeping on my part I'm still not clear as to whether it was the one that never brightened as much as the other two. Anyway, who started calling putting geosats into a graveyard orbit "deorbiting" them? It's just "relocating" them (in the other sense of the term, Kevin) to a different orbit, not bringing them out of orbit entirely. Here's the story: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/05pas6/ Now, I really kind of doubt the reliability of the first element set below -- but maybe it had a lot of fuel left! PAS 6 1 24891U 97040A 04094.75000000 -.00000158 00000-0 00000+0 0 7760 2 24891 14.6420 14.6970 0669728 359.1400 11.5730 0.88921620 24414 PAS 6 1 24891U 97040A 04093.21876625 -.00000208 00000-0 00000+0 0 7759 2 24891 0.0339 51.2827 0008134 126.9123 20.8117 0.99727258 24392 PAS 6 1 24891U 97040A 04092.26782124 -.00000217 00000-0 00000+0 0 7742 2 24891 0.0322 51.2953 0008134 126.8800 39.4175 0.99727587 24389 PAS 6 1 24891U 97040A 04091.38601779 -.00000224 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 07738 2 24891 000.0291 056.3761 0008189 121.5841 083.0387 00.99727640024373 PAS 6 1 24891U 97040A 04090.49214137 -.00000231 00000-0 00000+0 0 7723 2 24891 0.0214 66.3495 0008291 113.7207 120.0056 0.99728163 24361 Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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