Decay watch: Oct 10 #1

Marco Hahn (Marco_Hahn@sl.maus.de)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:08:00 +0200

Kommentar zu P16658@BB in der Gruppe SeeSat-Mailingliste

AP>I have updated my Decay Watch page at
AP>      http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
AP>with my latest prediction for #25916. I now put this decay at October 10
22:51 UTC +-4h near a northbound equator crossing over the Indian Ocean, SE of
Sri Lanka.

Given the rather accurate position of decay, I wonder how you arrive at them?
What is the shape of the last "orbit" so much deformed that somewhere (where
exactly?) near the perigee the satellite loses almost all its forward kinetic
energy due to friction and thus is falling almost vertical due to gravity?

Hej då, Marco

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