Re: Irid 14A cover location

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:04:29 +0200

It appears that four of the latest Long March Iridium debris objects have
decayed.
I used Alan Pickup's SatAna to improve the wildly fluctuating drag terms,
then
computed the decays:

CSLO2 DEB   decayed 99166.828158  (1999 June 15) 826 x 179 km
1 25784U 99032H   99163.28952573  .07721949  37328-2  77233-2 0 90042
2 25784  86.1388  93.7729 0470287 162.4136 199.2711 15.21266557    88
CSLO2 DEB   decayed 99167.035083  (1999 June 16) 867 x 177 km
1 25783U 99032G   99162.96026629  .07096613  30652-2  75855-2 0 90021
2 25783  86.7042  93.8120 0500250 170.2758 190.7296 15.14740164    39
CSL02 DEB   decayed 99166.386738  (1999 June 15) 804 x 188 km
1 25782U 99032F   99163.35497664  .08630775  47960-2  11984-1 0 90032
2 25782  86.5044  93.7862 0447850 168.4795 192.5804 15.23186580    93
CSL02 DEB   decayed 99166.811236  (1999 June 15) 812 x 179 km
1 25781U 99032E   99163.28867221  .07617022  36839-2  77282-2 0 90040
2 25781  86.0874  93.7738 0460923 164.9087 196.5137 15.23416990    73
CSL02 S/D    decays 99219.081253 (1999 August 7) 622 x 208 km
1 25780U 99032D   99163.53542923  .00335757  12027-4  70999-3 0 90034
2 25780  86.3872  93.5784 0305038 153.9213 207.6475 15.50703878   125
CSL02 R/B    decays 99194.237523  (1999 July 13) 654 x 178 km
1 25779U 99032C   99163.53594713  .00682825  49989-4  68646-3 0 90041
2 25779  86.3825  93.5887 0350330 167.4038 193.4947 15.50302656   120

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