At 19:18 9/11/02, Ed Cannon wrote: >I think that this must have decayed already, but I can't >find any prediction or decay report, and OIG just gave >me these elements with no mention of decay: > >SL-12 DEB >1 27544U 02048E 02305.29820762 -.00003965 12537-4 00000+0 0 123 >2 27544 51.5302 32.2746 0041880 135.8867 262.8169 16.44146861 1773 >SL-12 DEB >1 27544U 02048E 02304.73755048 .23469309 95189-5 22449-2 0 115 >2 27544 51.5441 35.3351 0158721 151.5054 210.4698 16.08551073 1680 Ed, This last elset is 8 days old now, and the derivative of the mean motion is not physically possible of course! The object decayed without being missed by SSC. I would suggest the last elset is based on a spurious or mistaken observation. It would have decayed on day 305 which was November 1, 2002. You can stll get last 5 elsets from the normal TLE enquiry on OIG, although asking for a decay report on 27544 produces nothing. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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