Re: Iridum 33 and Cosmos 2251 Still Listed by Spacetrack

From: Brian Weeden (brian.weeden@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2009 - 10:23:15 UTC

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    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.
    
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    Brian Weeden
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    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
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