Geotail and large orbits

Walter Nissen (dk058@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Sun, 10 Sep 1995 04:56:22 -0400

progrmer@max.tiac.net writes: 
 
> also does anyone happen to know what 92044 A is? it has an orbital period 
> of 315 hours and an eccen. of .7! just wondering if anyone knows that 
> this satellite is, esp since its apogee is almost 400,000 km!!!!!! 
 
According to the Satellite Situation Report (available on-line from OIG), 
this is 22049 = Geotail.  It is one of a number of satellites in very 
large orbits.  It would be interesting to know about their visibility and 
the evolution of their orbits (I noted the discussion and diagram of the 
orbital evolution of Granat = 89- 96A = 20352 observatory in "1991-1992 
Europe & Asia in Space"). 
 
Cheers. 
 
Walter Nissen             dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu             216-243-4980 
 
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