Cosmos 2326 - the final hours

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:20:31 +0000

The latest elset from OIG...
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            207 x 161 km
1 23748U 95071A   97311.51445687  .06812750  74405-5  86369-3 0  3406
2 23748  64.9992 321.1694 0035586 267.4937  92.2872 16.33241778106982
shows it 4.7 seconds early with respect to the SatEvo "9331" evolution I
posted earlier today.

My latest evolution ("9336") leads to a predicted decay around November
8.09 (02:00 UTC). Predicted elsets...
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            187 x 156 km
1 23748U 95071A   97311.75903268  .12356661  10529+0  93611-3 0 93360
2 23748  64.9973 320.2387 0023753 265.6373  94.0912 16.38052326107022
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            181 x 153 km
1 23748U 95071A   97311.82006058  .14675572  15319+0  82814-3 0 93361
2 23748  64.9968 320.0042 0021457 265.6077  94.1471 16.39692957107035
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            174 x 149 km
1 23748U 95071A   97311.88102212  .17896503  21571+0  71649-3 0 93369
2 23748  64.9962 319.7694 0018888 265.5781  94.2061 16.41666174107044
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            165 x 144 km
1 23748U 95071A   97311.94190277  .23265676  38970+0  61673-3 0 93369
2 23748  64.9955 319.5341 0015913 265.5484  94.2698 16.44138977107054
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            154 x 138 km
1 23748U 95071A   97312.00267800  .34768949  95506+0  53740-3 0 93361
2 23748  64.9945 319.2983 0012242 265.5187  94.3415 16.47558465107064
Cosmos 2326      6.0  0.0  0.0  4.2 v            134 x 125 km
1 23748U 95071A   97312.06329104  .85228437  65236+1  53492-3 0 93364
2 23748  64.9929 319.0616 0006833 265.4888  94.4331 16.53820354107078

Alan
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