Re: tle for 24897

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 19:43:43 +0100

In message <199708212210.AAA16172@hydrogen.inbe.net>, Tristan Cools
<tcools@nic.INbe.net> writes
>Does anyone have an initial tle for 24897 ?  I did not find any at OIG or it
>seems that it's reserved( like some other numbers not beeing used) for
>another object.

I take this to be the Blok DM-2 used in the placing of Cosmos 2345 in
geosync orbit. The designations #24897 and 97- 41 D were reserved for it
but elements took a while to appear via OIG, perhaps because it was
still attached to the "A" payload. Here are all the elsets I have for
it:
Cosmos 2345 Blok DM-2                            37421 x 34302 km
1 24897U 97041D   97231.89669533 -.00000191  00000-0  00000-0 0    18
2 24897   1.3508 284.4951 0369112 185.1507 170.1348  1.00016325   115
Cosmos 2345 Blok DM-2                            37421 x 34302 km
1 24897U 97041D   97232.90775080 -.00000203  00000-0  00000-0 0    21
2 24897   1.3496 284.5682 0369142 185.0979 174.1642  1.00017340   128
Cosmos 2345 Blok DM-2                            37421 x 34303 km
1 24897U 97041D   97232.90800139 -.00000203  00000-0  00000-0 0    36
2 24897   1.3505 284.6559 0369068 184.9595 174.2969  1.00015181   126

Note that elements for all newly launched/catalogued objects, plus other
interesting objects like Mir, STS and decayers, are available via 
my WWW page (see .sig below). Subject to the connection between
Edinburgh and OIG, my files select.tle and dklist.tle, are being auto-
updated every three hours around the clock.

Alan
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