Decay update: #11758 = Cosmos 1172

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:47:14 +0000

This high eccentricity, extremely low perigee object appears still to be
headed for decay at about December 26.1.

The latest elset from OIG is:
Cosmos 1172                                      6196 x 79 km
1 11758U 80028A   97356.59992844  .40016780  21584-5  76617-3 0  1814
2 11758  61.8079 113.3624 3214294 248.2224  74.9404  9.35368651130068

Predicted elsets from my SatEvo evolution:
Cosmos 1172                                      5713 x 78 km
1 11758U 80028A   97357.02000033  .45953113  39177-1  79618-3 0 91814
2 11758  61.7731 112.7356 3037987 248.3001  76.9020  9.72168824130105
Cosmos 1172                                      5114 x 78 km
1 11758U 80028A   97357.52264788  .51835772  44138-1  81978-3 0 91810
2 11758  61.7310 111.9260 2805593 248.4027  79.6028 10.21249415130152
Cosmos 1172                                      4519 x 78 km
1 11758U 80028A   97358.00089486  .59353074  62598-1  85207-3 0 91811
2 11758  61.6891 111.0843 2558934 248.5120  82.4455 10.74217072130206
Cosmos 1172                                      3796 x 78 km
1 11758U 80028A   97358.54310876  .72394461  10359+0  91428-3 0 91818
2 11758  61.6398 110.0259 2235282 248.6530  86.1402 11.45058523130264
Cosmos 1172                                      3037 x 78 km
1 11758U 80028A   97359.05047551  .92889712  17088+0  10073-2 0 91814
2 11758  61.5884 108.9037 1863982 248.8065  90.3330 12.28166337130320

Alan
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