Generally the convention is that the largest piece of the post-breakup cloud retains the catalog number of the original object and is updated as such. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Gerhard HOLTKAMP <grd.holtkamp@t-online.de> wrote: > > The colliding sats Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 are still listed by Spacetrack > with epochs after the collision. The *new* Iridium 33 (the one with the > post-collision elset) is significantly trailing the pre-collision elset while > it's the other way around with the Cosmos 2251 elsets. Presumably these are > now the largest surviving post-collision pieces? > > Gerhard HOLTKAMP > Darmstadt, Germany > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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