The identity of object over Texas, mentioned in the meteorobs mailing list
has been confirmed by the following decay report taken from OIG
at the UT time indicated. It was 26990, 01 53D a lower stage
of the launch to put a couple of GLOSNASS satellites in orbit by Russia.
Ed Cannon was the one to realize first it couldnt be JERS-1.
Tony Beresford
Report time: 2001/12/02 07:44:51
Decay: Decay Time N Lat E Long RCS
CatNo Intl. Desig. Source Common Name Prepared
----- ------------ ------ ------------------------- -------------------
Decay: 2001/12/02 04:16:00 27.0 254.0 0.0000
26990 2001-053D CIS SL-12 R/B 2001/12/02 04:46:00
Decay: 2001/12/03 09:35:00 -7.9 238.2 9.0878
21867 1992-007A JPN JERS 1 2001/12/01 11:35:00
Decay: 2001/12/05 03:30:00 -0.6 33.3 23.0833
25155 1998-006D ESA ARIANE DEB (SPELDA) 2001/12/02 03:26:00
JERS 1
1 21867U 92007A 01336.04793733 .08804193 25542-5 41293-2 0 8289
2 21867 97.6099 90.2108 0010100 291.8593 68.1466 16.21515350538977
ARIANE DEB (SPELDA)
1 25155U 98006D 01335.63072379 .21450750 -16873-4 30422-2 0 2428
2 25155 6.6545 356.3475 1486275 48.1418 324.5683 12.98462043 47931
SL-12 R/B Decayed: 2001/12/02
1 26990U 01053D 01336.11317538 .01791896 78820-5 10000-4 0 28
2 26990 64.8961 15.7767 0053422 2.4025 3.3366 16.49346660 33
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