True for more eccentric orbits, and/or very high area/mass objects. My guess is that a heavy object in near circular orbit can have the apogee dip, and survive to the previous apogee, or anywhere ? 2012/1/14 Thierry Legault <legault@club-internet.fr> > hello, this is very interesting and I have a question: is the decay > more likely in the part of the orbit close to the perigee? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120114/cd45be3e/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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