Three questions: First, I was going through the leo.tle elements from Mike McCants' web page and noticed quite a few objects in pieces, such as 99057AM and 99057CT which Chinese rocket has been discussed here before. Incidently there's a Thor Ablestar Deb (61015) which is in a zillion pieces, which is interesting since I've not been able to find an explanation that would suggest an explosion - just a failure for two components to separate. Anyway, besides that particular explanation, I also wondered what was the easy way to get multiple TLE's for all the pieces of a launch, or if there is an easy way without tracking down all the catalog numbers of all the existing pieces of a particular launch. Third question - I noticed in OIG's 60-day decay prediction that XMM (25989) is coming down July 6. Right now it's got a perigee of 6800 km, doesn't seem very likely to me. :-) Thanks, Wayne Hughes ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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