Re: NEAR designations

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:56:41 +0000

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Craig Cholar writes
>In case those who saw NEAR want to add it to your observing logs, the
>NORAD number number for it is 23784, and the COSPAR ID is 96008A.
>I'm only mentioning this here because NEAR doesn't show up in the
>TLE files since it isn't in earth orbit.  The NEAR rocket is still
>in orbit as 23785, 96008B.

NEARly correct :-) In fact, the NEAR Delta 2 rocket decayed as recently
as January 17.

Alan
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