Luch 1 Rk, #23684
Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:47:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Alan Pickup wrote:
>> The same trawl yielded one object we all missed. #23684 = 95- 54 E (yet
>> another SL-12 R aux motor, this one from last October's LUCH 1 launch)
>> decayed while our backs were turned at about May 20.2.
I'd rather say "our hands were tied" or "we were blind-folded", as
Allen Thomson's el960525 file, and probably also OIG, had this elset
as "latest" at the time :
95054 E
1 23684U 95054 E 95357.41048193 .00007932 00000-0 10343-2 0 484
2 23684 47.2230 255.1025 7300369 19.5690 358.0757 2.27430737 1653
>> The final four (five!)
>> OIG elements make interesting reading for aficionados of high drag
>> rates; the tle format does not support ndots (or MMDOT, if you prefer)
>> of more than 0.99999999:
95- 54 E
1 23684U 95054E 96139.31189277 .59188470 20001-4 24615-2 0 1858
2 23684 46.7493 195.2694 2509990 77.6426 309.1751 10.79455040 5736
95- 54 E
1 23684U 95054E 96140.81625857 .99999999 33398-4 30729-2 0 1894
2 23684 46.7813 190.3232 1292902 83.2529 301.7118 13.54598379 5907
95- 54 E
1 23684U 95054E 96140.88714889 .99999999 33279-4 23033-2 0 1916
2 23684 46.7618 190.0432 1207520 83.5951 290.0836 13.75169614 5921
95- 54 E
1 23684U 95054E 96141.16914625 .99999999 95185-5 24383-2 0 1934
2 23684 46.7227 188.6447 0540023 86.3314 327.3790 15.35953657 5960
95- 54 E
1 23684U 95054E 96141.16064515 .99999999 10193-4 32789-2 0 1943
2 23684 46.7495 188.7828 0611178 80.0677 286.8587 15.14857796 5950
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