These two pieces of debris are the result of the in orbit explosion of the rocket body of Cosmos 2227. It was a Zenit 2nd stage, launched 25.25 december 1992. The next day it exploded and today there are 221 pieces of debris catalogued (1992- 93 C to JH). Most of them still in orbit. Also 1992- 93 B is still in orbit, or what is left of it. Greetings Leo Barhorst >Tony Beresford wrote: > At 21:08 11/05/00 , Patrick Curran wrote: > >Hi List, > > Can anyone give me any information on the following two debris > >objects - what satellite they belong to and how bright they might appear: > > > >1 22371U 92093BL > 22371 measured radar cross section average over 34 mentions = 3.59 sq. meters > might get to mag 4.5 on favorable geometry. > >1 22438U 92093EF > 22438 measured radar cross section averaged over 24 times =.019 sq. meters > Forget about it, much fainter than Vanguard 1 is for those of us > closer to its maximum latitude. > > Both bits of debris from the launch of Cosmos 2227 ( 92-93A ) which is in the > Mccants.tle file. So is 92 93B still. > Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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